Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

I swear, the Op's department of this company would #### up a wet dream. Yesterday, they had it set up so a specific driver would bring his empty to Marietta, and I would hook up to it, then go pick up a load to t'call back in Marietta. When he got here, I sent in a message that I had hooked to the empty so they could assign it to my truck. I got no reply. This morning, I try to verify that this trailer has been assigned to my truck so I don't get the 'trailer not available' message when I get to the shipper. Op's is now saying that this trailer is assigned to another truck, and not the truck that brought it in. I said 'switch it', it was set up yesterday for me to do all this so I can get a load home and contemplate my future with the company and in trucking in general. So I have the trailer, I have the load info, I was told to do this shag with this trailer...and I am not unhooking from it to give it up to someone else. I try to be calm and polite with these people because I know they're even more short staffed over the holiday weekend than normal. But it seems as though the only way they get the point is by being a total a'hole...why does it have to be that way? I would rather work as a partner with them so things go smoothly, not be an irate prick.

 

But, the system won't let me do an arrival, load call or t'call once I get it back here if the trailer isn't assigned to my truck. Without the system, I don't get paid, and therefore would be doing this for free, like so much else we do without compensation. Honestly, with crap like this always going on, it is making the option of retirement from trucking easier by the week.