Stop & Do the Math

Roger that! lol

 

Drivers should alwys keep track of their hours.When dispatch ask if you can do a load. let them know how many hours you have. how many hours you think you'll have with the load including the getting loaded and if you don't think you'll have the hours make sure to tell dispatch.That doesn't mean he will relieve you of the load but if he's smart he will keep that in mind and find you a relay if need be.But you do need to keep in contact with your dispatcher on your available hours once or twice a day.

 

That may be the case where you work but I certainly wouldn't advise anyone to accept a load they can't do without first advising dispatch of the situation and letting them know what the driver can do.

 

Why is so much advice being recycled? I undersand if someone asks for advice but when we get a book report type post on something that should be common sense. My eyres glaze over after 2 paragraphs.

Just curious no disrespect ment.

 

Agreed.

OK, fine, I was looking for a job when I found this one. Bye bye...

First off, I can't understand why drivers, particularly if they are not brand new, would ever go to work for a forced dispatch outfit. There are just too many companies out there that don't do it.
You may, in your own mind. guarantee them that the company relay/repower the load. However, you sure can't guarantee it in the real world. Yes, companies are in business to make money. And no, drivers shouldn't "run the show." But looking at it realistically, it is the driver who's arse is hanging out there. It is the driver who will screw up his driving record. The company cares not one whit about that. All they want is dollars. Any way they can get them. If that was not true, they would never feel they have to force dispatch.
So yes, let's be honest. Be honest about covering your own rear end, because nobody else is going to do it for you.
Now I do believe there is a time and a place to "help out" your dispatcher. But you have to be very careful in how you go about it. Once you have blatantly ignored HOS rules to deliver a "hot" load, as a "favor" to your dispatcher, you have set a precedent for them to keep pushing you. This job is just not worth it.

No disrespect meant to you either, sir. But let me ask you, if this makes your eyes glaze over, why do you continue to read it?

 

Don't be a slacker like the op. Your dispatcher will never give you good loads. They need to know you are going to get the job done. They need to know you are a team player. Do you want to make the big bucks?? You got to roll with the big dawgs!!

 

I didn't read the rest of the op post after the second paragraph. This isn't critical thinking........we drive semi trucks.

 

I spose you had it all figured out when you first started driving. The first sentence the OP said this was for the new drivers.