An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

Still sitting, and can't get an honest answer about when I will be moving again. I wonder how pissed they would be if I deadhead home 700 miles. This is totally ridiculous.

 

Back when I was at Crete (the 1st round) they had an algorithm that chose loads based on driver location(proximity to the shipper), driver's available hours, and/or any hometime requests. The humans in dispatch had to comply with the computer recommendation something like 70-80% of the time. It was an attempt to increase efficient equipment utilization and reduce favoritism by dispatch. And this was in the early 2000's.

 

The problem has been solved with getting me moving. After a brief discussion with Toledo, we determined that the problem was they were focusing only on loads to get me home. I told her that anything to get me moving, towards home or not. I messaged my FM on 6/3, on the way down with my Genie load, that I was going to be available on 6/6 at 10 am, and open to extending my hometime date in order to make it easier to get reloaded and productive so I could get another decent mile load in by the end of the pay period. Apparently, either my FM didn't note this(he said he put a notation in the system), or his notation got removed/truncated because neither sales nor planning saw any such message. (I have verified that the message about me not having tarps is in the system, which it is) Once I said that, I had a load 10 min later. I have a 2 location JLG pickup in PA delivering to WI and MN by Friday.