Force Dispatch

Look I don’t think anyone explained to you that the term only applies to LEGAL contracted drivers and leased owners.

This is because those two groups can legally refuse work without retaliation.

as an employee, you are hired to do a job as they need to you to do. This means if you are assigned a load going to a family dollar where you are sitting in the middle of the road unloading while holding up traffic, you do it.

 

No problem. Go where they send you.

 

Most companies are forced dispatch if you’re new you’ll have to suck it up for a bit.

when you go somewhere else and have experience you have a bit more weight to throw around. I do refuse loads not often but I don’t do the whole “blind side off a busy highway in Chicago through a parking lot around a corner” stuff anymore.

if I get stuck loaded and the customer is in a place like that? Well better have a yard driver or pallet jack. It sucks to suck.

 

Swift isn't forced dispatched, even if you are a company driver. That said, they do want an explanation why if you turn down a load. I have turned down loads. But, try not to simply because, as an employee, I want to be useful to the company. We're in business to make money and turning down loads makes that harder on everyone. But, there are situations when I have and will turn down a load.