Concerned

Who else in the office is new?

I had something similar happen once. The owner hired a new chief beancounter and the chief beancounter convinced the owner that he paid his drivers too much money. The first thing they have to do is get rid of the travel agent that's lining your pocket. Then you lose a 3rd of your money. Then they hire some idiot to be the travel agent. Your A Game crew of drivers starts falling out and they start replacing these with scum of the earth and these agree to work for a little less than half of what you guys used to run for. Stupidity increases, problems with accidents, speeding tickets, redlight cameras and Johnny Law starts leaning on you. Customers are pissed off and pull their business. The owner can no longer maintain the maintenance and he asks the impossible of your shop mechanics. They walk and they bring in scum.
And the chief beancounter tells the owner how happy he should be because he's saving so much more money (even tho he's earning less than half what he used to..."it's not what you make, it's what you keep!")

 

This year is a bad year so far for trucking. I bet the new dispatcher is stressed because freight have slowed and everyone is pointing fingers at him. It is not his fault. But he needs to pickup his phone and talk to drivers. I am willing to bet that the new dispatcher purposefully ignore your calls because every drivers is calling him. He should understand that ignoring drivers will make things worse.

 

How long can the company keep paying you drivers to sit home and do nothing?

Yeah, I’d start looking for a new job.

 

So my question is where did all the loads go ?
sounds like a bad rerun of the twilight zone

 

If your prior dispatcher was so good to you all and took care of you maybe he was doing that for the company’s U-Haul for two maybe another company picked him up knowing he was the key .

 

Hint,hint,
All 5 of you guys sitting at home with no loads,
New dispatcher won't talk to any of you.
You've been replaced by someone else,
Who's cheaper.
There just waiting for you guys to quit.

I wouldn't count on that minimum check for
more than 1 more week.
It's called starving them out.
If you finally do get too talk to someone,
There just gonna say things are slow.

Start looking for another job before they stop
Cutting those checks.

 

If your old dispatcher was that good, he more than likely took a bunch of the business with him to wherever he's working now. Happens all of the time. It may put your current company out of business if they are poorly managed, which it sounds like.

Figure that your company won't be able to pay you a minimum salary for sitting around if there is no work coming in. Better start looking for work now while you have some time off. See if you can find where the dispatcher went and give him a call. Maybe he can put in a good word for you.