Dealing With Dispatch

The thing that annoys me, my dispatchers have the correct info, but what is sent via Qualcomm is often wrong or leaves something out. Fortunately at this point I've learned to work around the office of disinformation.

 

I enjoyed watching ur video,sadly the mentality of im ok screw everybody else is everywhere nowdays.

 

Dispatch got a fax from a recent load that informed them that the drop was changed. I didn't find out until I got to the original drop. Dispatch messed up and told me to write it up as an extra stop on my paperwork for extra stop pay.

 

I guess to get their trucks loaded for the morning when the liquor stores open.

 

ProTrans International in Milwaukee doesn't start until 5pm for the outbounds. If you're lucky, you'll get loaded before 11pm.

 

What we do is drop the trailer there ASAP, then go off duty and use PC to go down to the Love's about 7 miles away, ####, shower and shave then either come up and wait or come back around the approximate time it's supposed to be ready. Then we hook up, get the paperwork and either start rolling if we have a full 10 hour break (depending on when we dropped the trailer) or pull the trailer out from the dock, park in their drop lot and then take off in the AM. Taking off then is no big deal, the load is usually due the day after the next day around 9am. (Example: Pick up Wednesday night/due Saturday at 9am)