My dispatcher actually said this

....5 minutes into in-person conversation
Me - yeah both addresses from yesterday were wrong
Dispatcher b - I can fix that, just need the driver's to let me know
Me- yep both of the addresses from yesterday were wrong
Dispatcher b - yep I know I can't do anything unless the drivers tell me about it
Me - the 2 addresses I had yesterday were wrong
Dispatcher b - yeah that will happen

I'm running food and they just cut overtime in the warehouse. The dispatchers don't do "real" dispatching, and I'm getting the short end of what ever stick this is

I showed up the first day and the dispatcher wanted me to jump in some other guy's sleeper truck, who's on vacation this week, and sleep in his bed which was still made with his blankets and pillows. Supposedly the dispatcher was trying to get a truck for me but it wasn't ready. So his solution was to sleep in some other dude's bed. I told him that's not happening.

Mind you I've only ever ran day cabs for this company, and I asked this guy 3 times before I arrived on what to expect. I finish the 1st run, just made it a turn, no bed needed, and got back with 3 minutes on my 14.

So immediately the next day my load was delayed 10 hours and I'm getting ready to go sleep when I get a call to come in. Now I don't know if they're just ####in with me, if they're dumb, or if it was just my luck, so I go and finish my day at 430 am, and they're texting me by 9 am that the next loads ready.

So needless to say it's a #### show. I had just finished emailing my manager lettthim know they're letting me sit and not working me. I get the call oh hey this has been ready for an hour you need to go run this.

Yeah yeah yeah these dispatchers are definitely lazy, but I don't know if they're also malicious, I can only assume that yes, of course they are.

This is why I always stay job searching.

 

It's electric pallet jacks, driver unload and load. which I've never used the EPJ for more than a pallet or two before this. And that load that got delayed last night was actually 2 loads to the same place about 40 minutes down de road. And boy let me be the first to say that was a lot more work than I thought it was going to be. Those EPJ are not the most user friendly tools and they jerk you around like a dam Tesla thats been taken over by malicious AI. It took me way longer than. I thought it would, 2 full unloads and 1 full reload. I was thinking about 2 or 3 hours but it was closer to 6. And it kicked my ###. Didn't help that the all the pallets of chips were stacked too high to take off the trailer, hand unload the top row of about 10 pallets. And then I had a weird one. About 3 pallets into the second trailer, I had a pallet get stuck on the EPJ, and I couldn't get that sucker off no matter what I tried. Not that I really no what I'm doing but it got the better of me. So I had to do about 19 pallets with the manual jack and that was no fun.

 

Yeah I'm thinking it's mostly stupidity too. He never fixed the addresses, I don't think he realized what the words I were saying meant.

 

So now they just sent me 4 hours away with the wrong trailer. And they're blaming me. Even tho I have the paper work right here that has the same trailer number as the one I'm pulling. This place is a circus. I've never seen anything this disorganized.