How many of you take flack from dispatchers ?

Hung up phone yelling at stoopid Dispatcher, somthing about stupid mack relay wires loose and screwed up talking about 4 stinking color coded wires, Ioughta whack dispatcher jj=ike

slamed the hood open, jammed a pen down the selionoid. no and nope andNYET,Lady driver comes up with ball peen hammer raised over head.

I dove.

WACK... came off a bit weak. not really what you wanna put against a 20 dollar part that just got cold again from issint still last nightl She put down hammer, I dug a 8 pound sledge out swapped hammers. Heavier hammer was already committed to the W H A C K! with that nice sharp cut off bite as if you just strangled dog going after rooster.
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CRAN -SPUT-CRANK-ter (Wondered where that came from,... not just half the sputter but the half too...) RWAR! back in business again, this is no job for a young man....

 

Havent worked for them in 2 years.

 

Yeah, she could of if she was an authorized driver. Yeah, I know, not perfect like you.

 

I'm not saying that you're wrong, but what would you had done after calling 911?

Years ago, when I was a company schmuck in a ompany truck, I was in Minot one winter waiting for a load. Some Heiffer in an office calls me and tells me that I had been idling the truck for 24 hours and that is against company policy. I told her that the outside temp was 3 degrees when the sun was up. She tells me that if I am cold to turn the heat wide open for 15 minutes, bundle up tight and then turn off the truck. I tell her that I can just go ahead and get a motel room until I get a load and then they can get a wrecker to tow their truck to a shop. She asked if there was anything wrong with the truck.

"What part about 3 degrees outside when the sun was up did you not understand? If you shut the truck off at this temp you will have to tow it to a shop to get the fluids unthawed. What's the company policy on getting a truck towed to a shop every time you want to start it up?"

The absolute worst part about being a company driver is the number of stupid conversations you have to hold with a desk jockey on a daily basis.

 

I am lucky that my dispatcher was a driver for many years. Besides, my company is awesome. But I have worked elsewhere and got to a point where recording every phone call became a necessity. Bad times but all gone now.

 

That was my way of letting a heifer realize that she doesn't know anything. And since the election, we can all ignore what the Heifer has to say. I feel like hugging my guns.

 

I have a pretty decent relationship with my dispatcher. He is a young guy fresh out of college so he does make the occasional bone head move, but if I call him out on it he almost always listens. i talk to him respectfully and I get the same in return. I always take the work assigned to me without complaint. With that I have built up a level of trust to where I can go through my day without anyone watching over my shoulder.

I don't get these guys that are always cursing out their dispatchers for every little thing. Then they wonder why they get no respect. We had a guy at my company that started around the time I did, and that's how he was. If he got a run he didn't like, or if he had to sit at a customer for more than two hours, he was always on the phone yelling and swearing and acting like a teenager (and he got paid by the hour mind you). When he didn't get his way he would piss and moan like a toddler. Needless to say that clown is long gone, but he was -and still is- the laughing stock of our operations dept.

 

What I say is .. I'm glad I've paid my dues, did my time, built my reputation, protected my driving record to a point I can work (drive) anywhere I could ever want to work and where "dumb or lousy dispatchers" could never last long.

That said, let's be honest. There's lots of good dispatchers having to work with [and cover for] more than a few sorry excuses for drivers, too.

 

When in conversations with dispatch personnel, I find the ignore button works wonders.