Distasteful Dispatchers

A dispatcher can make or break a driver goes right along with a driver can make or break themselves. Like Etch said this is team play and everyone plays a little role.

The industry is not going to shut down without you.

Do your job as a responsible dependable driver, on time, safe and be a pleasant person to get along with and the rest falls into place. Be a butt, demanding, I'm more important than you type attitude and of course problems will chase you around.

Many times there might multiple drivers waiting for a load and when one opens is the good driver going to get it or the one with the bad attitude? Or two drivers waiting and a good load and a bad load opens, guess who gets what?

You can run like a deer but if you don't have the right attitude it is nobodies fault but your own.

Of course there are bad dispatchers out there just like there are bad drivers. You can ask for another one. I don't have to like you in order to work on a professional level with you. Being drivers come from a diversity of backgrounds I guess it's easiest to say street or redneck justice doesn't work in the business world.

 

Are you one of the drivers that thinks he is more important than other drivers and parks in the fuel isle to eat and shower? Without oil refinerys nothing moves so they are probably a little more important than you, just maybe......

 

Lets face it, I'm the most important piece, without me who would make ######## comments in the office, and swear like a sailor in front of the president of the company.

 

No

Ever heard of biodiesel, CNG, or any other alternative fuel? Besides we are talking about drivers VS dispatchers here. When the technology develops that trucks can drive themselves from A to B is when you can tell me how unimportant we are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiesel

 

This part was meant as a joke, I have had very nice Dispatchers, the rest is still true though

 

Tell us your story.You do need thick skin to be in this industry.Then some read too much into how a dispatcher treats them.Ive been with a company going on 2 yrs and never have I had a bad exp with my dispatchers and I deal with 4 of them.But then other drivers at my company don't get along with their dispatchers.

 

Likewise, 80% of what I post can be ignored as I'm just being sarcastic.

 

Give yourself some credit Meltom - I'd say only 72%.

 

You are right on with your idea here ETCH. Of course, a lot of folks can't see it, because they do think that they are the most important cog in the wheel. . .No matter how much they may deny the big ego trip, it is still a fact.

These will be the drivers that never had a "decent" dispatcher, all of the customers are jerks, and on top of that, their assigned truck is a "piece of junk," and they "deserve much better." They never learned to be team players.

You see it in all industries and all types of jobs. The individual who sincerely believes that they are "indispensable" to the operation of not only their own company, but perhaps their entire industry.

 

Its so hard to look in the mirror and see the problem