To be a dispatcher, you have to have a dark side.....

It's bad when detention on some loads pay as much as the load its self.

 

Sounds like they are leased to the wrong company to me.

Are you talking O/O who has the truck title in hand and can switch companies or a Lease Purchase?

 

I just had this happen to me and I have already sent in my application to Landstar over the weekend. Now I'm waiting until they call me. This is what I'm dealing with, load 1 was nice but I only had 8 hours to cover 600 miles. Second load I accepted and they cancelled, third and fourth loads were garbage miles and had nothing good about them including scheduling. They tried to say I turned all four loads down. I sent back a message that pointed out the facts.

Of course I also got the standard reply, "Freight is really short in your area."

 

What happened to personal responcibility. New or not, you need to know what you are making before you accept a load.

 

Short freight is good... less wind resistance.

 

Not trying to be a prick but, You are talking about L/O's, not O/O's. Plus you only have to do the loads you want, no matter where you lease on to.

 

Yeah but at most companies there's hell to pay if you turn down any load no matter what the reason. Really the norm in trucking is that contractors are treated no different than employees at most companies. I quit my old company of 11 years when someone pointed out to me on this very forum how ridiculous it was that I, in my own truck covering all the expenses, had to give notice when I wanted time off. And after a week off they'd be bugging me to get back to work. And so I don't play that game anymore. How it ought to be everywhere.

 

Not where we are leased on to. I turn down loads all the time if it's not profitable or doesn't fit into what I want. Just turned down one yesterday and the next one they offered was ten times better. They can give the garbage loads to their company drivers. We didn't sign a lease that said we have to take every load and if we refuse we will get black listed. We might be leased on but we own our truck, not them. If I thought they were treating us crappy because I didn't want a load then I'd take my lease into their office and tell them where to stick it. There's other companies I'd take our truck to. But we've been here a few years and over all, I don't ever have to worry about petty crap like that.

 

I disagree. I always gave two weeks notice when I was taking time off as a matter of courtesy so the dispatchers would know who would be available when planning loads.I would also remind them a week before and then again a couple days before. I didn't HAVE to, but I did. I also didn't ask, I just let them know when I was taking time off.