Dispatcher

Sell your soul to the devil.

 

What is a companycompany?

 

Get drunk, arrested at 25 in your Daddy's trucking company.

My first dispatcher literally got that position that way. When his trucking license went bye bye, they stuck him behind a desk, plopped a phone and a list of trucks and told him get em loaded and rolling.

I had dispatchers before that one but all of them were former truckers who I recall one in particular, he could not mentally handle the three mile ridge pull out of Union Bridge Maryland southbound. It was too much for him into his head. They put him behind a desk and he did much better.

If that little pull bothered him so much, I hate for him to come out here and see the really big pulls in winter ice.

I myself interviewed for a dispatcher later in life. There was this 30 something suit who gave me the interview in a office full of 30 somethings, a few 20's in the staff working the phones keeping the fleet going.

I was told that I was a dinosaur and too scary for some. Had I gotten the dispatcher position and roared at a special driver when the rest of my group went about being on time I would have hurt feelings across the whole tender office.

That company went out of business at that Searcy location a few years later. The buildings and property etc are still rusting and rotting to this day unsold.

In 2001 fall, we were a veteran husband wife reefer team sitting in the yard eyeballing this hash coming across our qualcomm. We got on the phone seeking clarification of this... load assignement that did not make sense. Time ticked by like blood going out of a dying person in a hurry against the on time need to get moving.

Turned out that dispatcher was 22, fresh out of our fine US Army and so on. It was we who gave him a short lesson in how to dispatch us the way we like it. Essentially we broke him in. And that first load went off without a hitch when he learned to talk to us a certain way with enough information for us to take it and go.

A give away on our part was allowing him to think of it as a Mission in combat. Go to A, get this, go to B be there by date and time. Where is A where is B and what are we taking and how much?

Once we understood each other things went great. More than great actually. Awesome for a young tender dispatcher. It's a matter of talking just so to each other.

Just one minor thing missing. Profanity. =)

 

It’s from the Department of Redundancy Department.

 

Yeah, okay. We'll try.
Do you want to be a dispatcher for a company or do you want to start a dispatching company of your own?
Since you're asking the question I'm going to assume you don't have a lot of time in the trucking business.

 

Aren't you at FEE ?
OR am I thinking off someone else.