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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;supersnackbar, post: 4730548, member: 9858&quot;]I had a bit of a bumpy start coming back out of home time.&nbsp; Was at my MIL&#039;s place mowing when back haul called (twice).&nbsp; Then the usual phone tag with back haul.&nbsp; I got home, left them a message and waited with my headset on.&nbsp; Phone never rang, but I get a voice mail...they called, but I live in the sticks, so cell service blows on a good day...and it wasn&#039;t a good day.&nbsp; I ended up having to &#039;call forward&#039; my cell to my home phone, then leave them another message.&nbsp; This time it got thru.&nbsp; The broker was one I haven&#039;t heard from in a while.&nbsp; I won&#039;t mention &quot;him&quot; by name, but the brokerage is named after him, and he usually calls you before back haul does, and is one of the friendliest people you&#039;ve ever spoken too.&nbsp; I ended up calling him this time.&nbsp; When I tell him what load, he was confused, and tells me&nbsp; that he has already dispatched that load to a Poly driver...uuugggggghhh.&nbsp; I call Poly back, get voice mail again, leave a message and start to get grumpy (grumpy was out unloading the truck, so I had to go get him <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />).&nbsp; I actually stayed patient for a change. A few minutes later the broker calls back, turns out, the original driver dispatched on the load broke down (say it isn&#039;t so) and I was the &quot;re-power&quot; driver.&nbsp; I guess that was some &quot;need to know&quot; info I didn&#039;t need to know.&nbsp; The only problem is, it&#039;s now Monday afternoon, the broker had left for home and was on his cell with none of the info, but he did tell me the where&#039;s (as in the city, but not the pertinent info) and the when&#039;s of the load.&nbsp; He said he was going to roll back to the office and get the details and call me back...it didn&#039;t dawn on me at the time to tell him to just call me when he comes in the next day since the load picks up in the afternoon... It picked up N/E of Cleveland, TN at 1 pm on Tuesday...500 miles away.&nbsp; Which meant an extremely early start to my day, and most of my hours used getting to the pickup.&nbsp; But, because this is one of our better brokers, and because he always treats us drivers like people, not just a voice at the other end of the phone, I busted my butt to make sure I was there picking up on time no matter how early I had to get up.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I am headed for Dallas, and like Army guy, my truck is due for service.&nbsp; I will get there Thursday, and put myself on Saturday&#039;s outbound board just to give the shop an extra day to fix anything else they find so I don&#039;t have to grab a loaner.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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