Handling dispatcher favors?

Surprising how thy all work a 40 hour week but your favor puts you at 15 hours and outside of the law. Whenever I broke the rules it was for my benefit because I paid the price if caught. Several time I told people so me the cash. No pay no play.

 

you think they going to bail you out if you get caught,,,no way. they will hang you out to dry.

 

Agreed. If something goes bad they will cut you loose so fast.

 

You did the right thing.

YOU must protect your CDL. No one else will.

The dispatcher can get drunk on his way home, and plow his car into a busload of handicapped nuns, and still take a cab to work.

If you roll your truck over while trying to avoid that same busload of handicapped nuns, and you're hanging upside down by your seatbelt with your own blood dripping below you onto the cab ceiling, the first thing the cop is going to say when he gets on scene is NOT gonna be:

"Great job, driver! The nuns are okay!"

It's gonna be, "Where's your logbook, driver? Tsk, tsk. 10 minutes over and using PC to advance the load. I gotta grab a box of traffic citation forms outta the trunk, be right back."

Channel 7 says, "Divine intervention saves nuns from outlaw trucker, film at eleven."

Company is gonna say "Never heard of that guy. Thanks for recovering our stolen truck."

Will it come back to bite you on the ###? Maybe, if the TM and DM are vindictive d-bags.

If they're not, then maybe a firm but informal discussion with them that you're not running over hours and don't ever put you in that position again.

That's what I did the first time it happened to me.

The second time I sent an email to the TM and the Safety Mgr, saying I thought we all agreed that we were running legal, and if that has changed I need to know so I can find another job.

The dispatcher received a stern talking to, and I haven't had any problems since. The dispatcher keeps me rolling, too, because I take what I'm given and run it without any backtalk or whining.

That's how I was taught to truck. Apparently, that's not how it's done anymore.

 

Real World Talk: If your company has a safety department, your dispatcher will forget that you ever had such a conversation. Thus, if anything happens, you will hang by yourself. If the logging department checks, you will hang by yourself. Cue the music.


Criminal Talk: How much money is the travel agent talking? A "favor" makes it sound as if you are going to do this at your current rate of pay. Probably the dumbest thing a driver could ever do. You guys wondering why your dispatcher treats you like a 'female dog', that's why. You don't do extra unless it pays extra. No extra? If they aren't talking extra bread, then they aren't talking to a criminal. A criminal would tell your travel agent to "goeth intercourse thyself."

 

Favors cost money!

 

I would hang up and call the Safety Director immediately. That dispatcher will be looking for a new job.

 

Yeah, you did right.

If you do it once, they will want you to do it more, more often.

 

your particular situation, you may have done ok.

i have had a dispatcher (or 2) ask me to pick up or drop off things on my way, and it wasn't a problem for me. however, this was well before ELD's, and the use of coloring books.

then too, i got paid back when i needed something, so it was the old saying, "one hand washes the other" back then.