Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

It’s better when you’re picking up and he has a delivery, and it’s his LAST delivery.

 

On today’s episode of “As the Steering Wheel Turns” we have the case of the junior driver who steals everybody else’s weekend work, who shall herein be referred to only as “driver” despite the fact that “dirty ####ing back stabbing ########### low life son of a #####” would be quite fitting.

I get a phone call from “driver” Thursday morning with the declaration of “I’m taking the Saturday linehaul run because I talked to the load planner and ops mgr who said fine as long as its okay with you”

Before I could say “oh no you don’t”, “driver” changes the subject and starts babbling about the recent management shakeup, which I had to cut off because I was pulling into my next delivery. I didn’t pay this much mind because I figured he was blowing smoke like he usually does.

That is, until I saw the SOB hooking up to the trailer Friday afternoon, at which point I said “oh HELL no” and fired off 2 angry text messages to both the ops mgr and the load planner. The ops mgr got back to me first and tried to play dumb until I told him what I suspected, and then the truth came out.

When I heard from the load planner he pretty much had the same story.

Basically what happened here was “driver” sucks up to load planner to get extra run who is then told. “Driver” then goes to ops mgr who overrules load planner on the assumption that I was in the loop on all of this, which I knew nothing about until after the fact when “driver” gets me on the phone Thursday.

“Driver’s” phone number is now blocked, and if this ###-hole tries that again I’ll be on the phone to corporate in a hot minute.