I may regret this... But ask someone on the inside!

I'm talking about when a plan is removed after I've accepted it.

Let me give you a for instance....

I finished a mandatory log class in Decatur a couple of days ago. Within minutes of getting back to the truck I got a plan. That plan was followed up, within minutes (maybe seconds), with 2 more plans that dovetailed beautifully together. I accepted each plan within seconds of the time it hit the truck. Most of the time I don't even look at anything but the plan # before I do a Macro 9, so it literally takes only seconds for me to accept plans. (I've been extremely fortunate in that I have only had to decline maybe one plan for HOS reasons over the last 7+ months that I have been driving).

I gotta believe that if the plans were sent to my truck then they had not been accepted yet by any other driver to whom they might have been sent. And, if I accept plans as quickly as I do, then it seems to me that I probably was first to accept.

I'm thinking that maybe plans are "unplanned" sometimes because another driver might need to grab the load to get home or something has changed with shipper/receiver that makes it necessary to give the load to another driver who is in better position to accomodate the change.

I'm just fishing for information here. Trying to understand the "system" a little better. Definitely not complaining cause whoever the planners are that plan my truck are running this oldnewbie really, really good. I think they know that I could give a rat's ### about where a load is going or when it has to be picked up/delivered or how many miles are on it or whether or not I'm gonna have to work nights to get it done.

Thanks

 

A few years back I was sitting in Phoenix on a weekend trying to get to PA. I was sent a preplan to get a load off the yard and take it to NM somewhere (don't remember exactly). I accepted and went to the window to get the paperwork. Paperwork wasn't there. So they gave me the trailer number and said they would ask for a new BOL to be faxed in. I went ahead and hooked up and while I was waiting for the paperwork, another driver came a knock-knock-knocking on my truck. Turned out he had the paperwork. He had been dispatched on the load and gotten the BOL from the window and just hadn't hooked up yet (he wanted to be in the bobtail parking cause it's closer to the lounge).

I got to keep the load- they sent him west somewhere. We figured they gave it to me since I was trying to get east. Just funny they didn't take it off him first. Must have been an oversight.

Your comment just reminded me of that, so I figured I'd share.

 

Its kind of hard for me to answer that since I am not a planner, per se. Sometimes when I am trying to get someone to help me repower a load, I will sweeten the deal with a backup load home. But I will not take another drivers committed load to do so. Thats not saying that someone who IS a planner would do that, but again, I dunno.

It really could be any number of reasons, but if you are stacked, and something falls apart with the first or second preplan, then yeah, you will likely lose the whole stack, which stinks.

I wish I had a better answer for you on this.

 

Really? A mandatory log class? Did they show you what the log book looks like, and that even when you finish days off and you are whistling a happy happy tune.....YOU NEED TO USE THE BOOK?

 

We don't have log books anymore, Dingy Otter Man. We have log sheets.

 

ah sometimes you accidentally screw up and you end up in log class.

 

"Accidentally"...hmmm, yeah that's the ticket!

 

OK...I remember the days the Log/Safety Dept...(they were so insignificant then, they had to combine them)...would get all worked up when you showed up with loose-leaf. I guess they thought they put the staples in the books or something!

Those aren't the "sheets" that had OBGYN "whistling a happy happy tune" that morning!

Now one must wonder if OBGYN "accidentally" missed sex-Ed back in his little one room school house?

Back in "those days"...you accidentally screwed up...you ended up at the business end of the principals "Board of Education"!

Repeat that 1,000 times...you will believe it to be true! But we know the real story!

 

I forgot this part.....

Yep it sure was! One night at the Howard Johnson's in the pocket of the judge!

 

hahaha