What is the stupidest thing youve ever seen a Werner dispatcher do?

Sleep Deprivation does not exist in this industry officially, regulatory, supervisorly or any other ly's you can think of including FMCSA'ly

If you cannot sleep a while, that's fine. You will sleep next week. This week you are interfering with the concept of service providing because of your complaints over sleep.

Like a teenager wanting 12 hours uninterrupted sleep in the morning.

I am not your opponet, nor I am trying to pick on you. Sleep Deprivation is literally not a issue in this industry and certainly ignored by most everyone in a company structure. If you cannot be ready to work when it's time for your sleeper berth and off duty is FINISHED then you are not doing well to stay very long as their employee. There will be plenty of sleep deprived youngsters who will run 10,000 miles in 5 days and not complain. (Grotesque illustration but you understand.)

Driving while sleepy is worse than driving drunk. If I wanted to this hour right now, jump into my Tahoe in Arkansas and drive straight through to say... oh... Somerset Maryland in one trip stopping for fuel every 200 miles I'll be there in approximately 22 hours.

There is no regulating, no law no nothing that prevents me from driving sleepy to Somerset Maryland. What is a prevention is when I do crash and kill myself or kill a family trying to do it. That would be my own fault. Everyone will go tsk tsk tsk and forget about it in the next news event. (Somerset would be approximately 1280 miles straight through from where I am. I usually cross into Maryland at Harpers Ferry or Tuscarora and those two bridges are generally 1064 or so miles.

There is no law that says I cannot do this.

IF your situation is THAT BAD...

Trip plan your appointment given before you go get the load. If it's not going to work, say no and get a new appointment time. DO NOT go get the load until you have a valid appt time from dispacher. Refuse invalid and unsafe appt times as often as possible until you get a valid appt time.

They are not allowed to threaten you and your job. That is coraection. (Threats) and illegal under federal law.

Do seek out asap soonest possible any other trucking job. GTFO out Werner before you drive sleepy and kill someone.

 

Why can't you just change companies?

 

Some guys like to make it more dramatic than it really is..

 

just think about the walmart driver. I think if walmart wasn't connected they he would be rotting away.

 

I’d say any dispatcher that works for Werner has already done the stupidest thing.

 

One time I was in the office and yawned. The terminal manager said “you just got yourself a three day paid vacation to catch up on sleep.” Before I could respond he yelled “this isn’t Werner Zombie Enterprises!”

 

####.... and I slaved away my life waiting for a reload in those dang dispatch countertops. //satire.

I'll show him Zombie. Garden City KS to Sacramento via Amarillo with a meat load comes to mind one weekend straight through.

 

I was alert until I read this bs post