Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

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  1. supersnackbar

    supersnackbar Road Train Member

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    Yes, most companies have planning like this I know, but it wasn't this bad when I first came back kast year, it seems to be getting worse by the month. I was messages by morning dispatch asking for an eta. I told them tomorrow, but please push my PTA out until Monday at 7, so she did. Now I get a preplan that needs picked up at 4:30...even though the PTA is 7...I accepted it, and will start my day at 7...if it causes a problem, then I have Peoplenet messages showing I said 7, and they purposely ignored it..and...I don't friggin care anymore. Maybe if I do this a couple of times then maybe they'll get the hint that my PTA is set when I set it for a reason
     
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  3. LtlAnonymous

    LtlAnonymous Road Train Member

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    Companies are pretty much all the same anymore, so trucking is trucking.

    We're all going to run into the same problems at every company, because they're all making the same mistakes.
     
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    0C4C70B5-01A3-44C9-A82D-61BFC14F8193.jpeg I was picking up a preloaded trailer in granite city as this happened. Someone is definitely watching over me
     
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  5. supersnackbar

    supersnackbar Road Train Member

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    Dang, which warehouse? Their is like 3 or 4 in the general vicinity of some of our customers...and I have spent a lot of time delivering in that area. A) hope nobody was hurt and B) hope that warehouse wasn't where my wife's Christmas presents are being shipped from

    Update-2 deaths so far, but still looking because, according to Police, Amazon doesn't keep a scheduled staff there.

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.km...4d5fae3e-5a32-11ec-8487-d76116b95256.amp.html
     
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  6. mdmgolfin

    mdmgolfin Road Train Member

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    The one right next to 255 close to Hershey.
     
  7. drvrtech77

    drvrtech77 Road Train Member

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    I specifically remember hearing Aschoff tell us drivers when they were in Columbus they are deliberately over booking loads because according to him some Might cancel so in other words he stated that they want to make sure they have enough freight for everybody… Kind of like what the airlines do over book a flight on purpose for the life of me I just cannot fathom why anybody does that but oh well.. that could be one reason why drivers are getting preplans to pick up before their PTA just simply because they got so many #### loads they’re just assigning them and just having The drivers pick them up whenever you get rolling
     
  8. O.Henry

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    I get loads that I can’t make OTD,and after I decline them they tell me to get it moving and they either T-Call it or reschedule.
     
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  9. drvrtech77

    drvrtech77 Road Train Member

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    That’s all you can do.. The way I look at it is this if I tell them that I can’t make it and they just tell me to run it give them an ETA then I’ll just go pick it up and tell them when I think I’ll be there I’ll let them worry about everything else…
     
  10. supersnackbar

    supersnackbar Road Train Member

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    I do that to, even give them a follow-up message with alternative options, with date and time. Still get static from butthead about why. From this point, my reply to his 'why' will be 'because'.
     
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  11. tallguy66

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    80 still shutdown wow
     
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