forced dispatch ????

You getting paid mileage or percentage

 

Forced dispatch is illegal. However, they MAY not allow you to book your own loads. That is 100% carrier discretion. You can book all your loads when you have your own authority. I only allow 1 of my owner ops to book his own loads...

 

IT all depends on the contract, nothing is illegal if it is in the contract and it is signed by both parties.

 

Yes, it it. I BY LAW I cannot force/ask a O/O to drive 895 miles overnight. Now denying a load but trying to force my O/O is something else. I can't force an O/O to do ANY load! You are your own BOSS and i;m here to assist you!

 

Whether there is a law or not, with a forced dispatch or any system in which you have nothing to say as to where and for how much, the law of logic says, that if you deny to go here or there and do it repetitively, you might as well leave that carrier and go somewhere else. They cannot force you to take it, and vice versa.

 

a company I was leasing with. cough cough girbert express cough cough try to make me run forced dispatch local and when my basement flooded they try to tell me that work is priority I let it slide next time they wanted me to run over my hour or sit at home for the rest of the week... I no longer work with them

 

Sorry but there is no law, you as an O/O enter into an agreement and if that agreement says anything about assigning loads or anything about being dinged for refusing loads and you sign it, it is legal.

There is a difference between forced dispatch (forced assignment of a load) and being told to run illegal (900 miles in one night).

As for "I can't force an O/O to do ANY load! You are your own BOSS and i;m here to assist you!" got to ask, what does that mean?

 

Forced dispatch is used extensively in the commercial transportation industry along with dispatch retaliation. Many corporations even state their policies in employee handbooks drivers never see. With the internet blank signature page at orientation the companies attach your signature to whatever they want. My company is 24/7 on call dispatch and the employee handbook claims immediate termination if driver misses three calls or refuses any trip. Even sickness has a "three sick calls" your fired. Immediate termination list goes on for pages and safety of the public is one highlighted paragraph.

 

First off, no. That's not what forced dispatch is unless your with a bottom feeder company. At that point, it's your own dam fault for working for a company that "retaliated " against you for you being selective especially if your that whiny crybaby with 101 excuses why you dont wanna do that load. At the bottom feeder company, You knew the risk....so why cry about it when it happens (retaliation)??. Pick a decent outfit to work with and/or do a A game job, and you won't be the guy with 101 excuses getting punished for turning down work, instead, YOU will be the go-to guy. Otherwise, go to another outfit to work. It really is that simple.

Also, @Maria-19 , forced dispatch is NOT illegal, forcing a driver to do the impossible due to dispatch incompetence IS illegal though.
There's a huge difference, and you would be wise to know the difference.

 

Any trucking companies under a different mask has a forced dispatch, that's a reality of trucking business.
You wanna total freedom? Open your own MC#
And hire just one driver just like you, who wants to do his way.. and I bet you'll get rid of him in no time.
Every trucking companies has their customers or brokers they're working together, and they're need reliable and dependable drivers to covers their loads.
I worked for a companies, who lied to me when I was in the midst of eastern states, and willing to go anywhere where loads pays well, but dispatcher told me that they're couldn't find anything in 250 miles radius, and than they had sent me to their customer in Ohio, to pick up theirs load goes back to their terminal.
So, you just have to humble yourself when you're working for someone, that's all I can say...