dispatcher horror stories...let's hear 'em!

This sounds like an "evil" union... why? Isn't the dog eat dog world of "free" market "right to work" working great for the average guy?

 

Sometimes you have to play hard ball to get the job done. We could rename those "right to work" states, to be "right to not work" states.

 

He went out of business about 4 years ago.

 

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The best one I can remember off the top of my head was a Fredmeyer load.

I was working at Schneider on an elog and I didn't have the hours to run the load. Apparently they didn't have anyone else to pick it up so I grabbed it and started heading north to Portland. In the meantime my DBL, STL, SOB, or whatever they call them now sets up a drop.

This guy must have been exposed to a lot of lead paint as a small child because he tell me to drop this load at the walmart warehouse in Red bluff, CA. I explain to this moron out of work engineer that dropping at a feddies load at a walmart wasn't going to work. His response was,"don't tell them it's a Feddies load".....

I'm not kidding that's really what he said. The operations manager wasn't in and he refused to make any other arrangements. I wouldn't have cared but by the time I hit Red Bluff I was only going to have 5 min left on my elog. Rather then fight about it I just conveniently ran out of hours in Williams, CA.

That was about the time I put in my notice..... best decision I'd made in a long time.

 

well when i first started driving truck the dispatcher told me to dead head to shytown and call him in the morning...(wow hell of a deadhead i thought to my self) i was in effingham,il next day about 1pm i woke up call in ..he said were you been. sleeping i said i drove all night. where the hell are you he ask. leavenworth,ks i sad...i told you to head to CHICAGO...no no no i said you told me shytown. cheyenne,wy right? NO he said shytown is chicago....lol....i got pay for every thing and pick up a load in topeka going to florida..it was a good run and good money that week...

 

40 acres comes to mind...

 

Mine is the opposite. Years back the company I worked for had a Dispatcher Flip Out big time. He basically destroyed the office and most of his days paperwork before getting carted off in a jacket that TYES in the back.

Made my afternoon call in ( good old days & payphones ) , replacement dispatcher was in a panic , a load was in Florida and needed to be in NYC ASAP.

I was already on the load and well over 1/2 way there , but since the dispatch reports were destroyed he had no clue about this..

I could not get a word in edgewise during this 1 sided conversation, when I tried to explain I was told BE QUIET and LISTEN this is IMPORTANT.

He promised me more $ per mile and a big bonus if I got it PICKED UP and DELIVERED .

I got it delivered got my EXTRA $ and a BONUS

 

I had a knucklehead dispatcher at my first company I worked for. Looking back I'm sure that there were a few things I could have done differently, but that guy had been huffing way to much diesel fuel. I recall being threatened with my job if I refused a hazmat load from Indy to Dallas, even though I didn't have a hazmat endorsement

Then there was that time he sent me 115 miles to meet a trailer repair guy only a half hour before I was out on my 14. Finally was able to park it 6 hours later so I could take my 10 (4) hour dot break. Full grown wasn't to happy about that

 

wow. just wow.