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

10 things I've learned from being a dispatcher:

1. You see trucking from a different perspective, and it's a great learning experience.

2. If not already, you learn how to multitask.

3. You soon notice you can't make everyone (drivers, customer, boss, safety dept) happy, and everyone thinks you are the reason for their misery.

4. Why does the safety man just occupy space and make way more money than me while I don't even have enough time to eat my lunch.

5. You don't get invited to your driver friends' BBQ's anymore and their wives all think you're the devil.

6. "Crow" becomes a regular diet.

7. I'm not a good lier so why pretend to be a bad one. This doesn't score many points with the BOSS. "I don't care how you get it done, just make it happen"!!!

8. The mechanic shop will always pull a unit in for service in the middle of a hot load, hence another serving of "crow". The shop actually has more authority than I do.

9. The owners daughter just graduated highschool, teach her how to do your job so she can be your boss someday.

10. Driving a truck wasn't such a bad gig after all.



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Cat's love those

 

Well I liked the way my cre dm treated me with great respect. He reminded me that it was company policy to give him cheap hjs and bjs in order to get the good trips. One week later he said that if I dressed like a male prostitute that he would help me get the shorter walmart loads. When I tried to quit, he quickly got me a Lowe's load out to Key West, FL and when I asked if he could abandon the abandonment charges on my dac, he said it part of the danE.'s workmans compensation program.

 

What's a bjs? Is that something you pay a lot lizard in Amarillo for?

 

Silly, you don't pay them for that, you pay the to leave after that.

 

Not to much scares me. Some of those Lizards I've seen really scare me.

 

The one I saw the other day had green skin and said that for her science fair project they discovered 4 new virus' similiar to HIV. She said she was from the same place obama was born, I forget where that was, Hawaii or Oahu?

Now, I know it's a little too late to mass debate to politics, but do truckers want romney (whos related to dan e.) or obama who-cares?

 

Keep the politics in the politics section.

Completely inappropriate for here.

 

This is the best thing in the thread. My phone records, and with the simple touch of a button, our conversation records. When I'm talking to weekend dispatch, I often times record because they can get jazzy sometimes, and will tell you to do off the wall things. I do it for a couple of reasons. One, in case things get out of hand, or blown out of proportion, or to cover my ###.

I also plan on buying a road cam in the near future so I can start posting some of the dumb #### that 4-wheelers pull. Maybe it will help shed some light that maybe were not the problem in the 18-wheeler vs 4-wheeler war.

For the most part, I'm fortunate to work with the company I do. If the truck has problems, it gets fixed, no questions asked. If I get a POS load, it's backed up by a good load. If my DM is out for a day, and I get jerked around the day he's out, he'll make up for it. If I need a favor, it gets done. If my DM needs a favor that doesn't hinder my CDL then he knows he can rely on me. My only complaint is the planners. Most importantly, if my DM says he's gonna do something, he does it, which is extremely important to me. This thread makes me fortunate to work where I do. Judging from this thread, it could be much worse.

I don't pay for BJ's, I transflo in my recipe at the end of the week.

 

I remember sitting at a truckstop near Holcomb, Ks. waiting for a Tyson load. Any reefer driver that has picked up or delivered a Tyson load knows that sitting for 4 days doesn't do the trick. That is right, folks, sitting at any Tyson Plant for 4 days will get any driver to quit. I will never pull another Tyson load if i am paid detention pay after the first hour, yes, AFTER the first hour because TIME IS MONEY! This was when i worked for Priority Transportation.