My load was supposed to be ready, it isn't

This is hard to answer, because if you have never been there before, and back up to a door, it may be the wrong side of the building, or the wrong building. I have dropped trailers at one location (receiving) and shipping at times was an entirely different building. I think it might be best to at least hook up, then one of you stand by the entrance door with whatever shipping order you have for someone to look at, then do as told.

Or , you can hook up, back up, and hope for the best?

 

Your company knew #### well that there was no load for you to pick-up; they are just trying to rook you out of layover pay: They set you up with a load that can not pick up today, that way they are not obligated to pay layover for today. If the load is ready tomorrow, watch everybody in the dispatch office play dumb and not have any knowledge about Sunday pick-up.

 

if this is the worse that happens in the industry to you be grateful
produce and meat are always late
warehouses care lil about trucks and drivers

 

Instead he'll collect detention pay ...

 

If they pay detention pay,
Some companies do not.

 

No detention pay will be issued. If a trucking company pays detention it is usually with the qualifier that the customer pays detention first. This company did not order a load to be picked up at 3 A.M. and will not pay any detention.

What happened is the planner picked a time before the load was to pick up and the warehouse, the company, and the dispatch office would be closed. That way there would be no solution or aggravation could be taken out on the customer or dispatch.

These trucking companies keep stats on planners like they do on drivers. Of importance is deadhead miles and driver layover or truck utilization. What the planner did is send this guy a load that wasn't a load. That way the next day the load gets cancelled out and a new load gets set up in the computer with less deadhead miles and the correct pick-up time. That way from a management point of view the planner is top notch; full truck utilization and low deadhead miles.

Now everybody in the office will cover for this crap and deny it happens. No dispatcher wants to call out a planner to be on a planners #### list. Most drivers will be down the road in less then 8 months and the others are too dumb to catch on to this trick. It happens all the time and really screws with a driver's sleep schedule.

 

so dispatchers are used car salesman?

 

I'd buy a used car from a dispatching salesman, for my bro-in-law.

I hate him.