What's the stupidest thing you've ever had a dispatcher or office rat tell you?

They wanted me to bounce 600 miles to pick up a load that paid 1.25 a mile.

 

"traffic on the I-405 Fridays at 4:40 pm near LAX is not that bad."

 

"It doesn't matter what the fleet manager says. You do what I tell you to do."

He was a bit surprised when I went to the fleet manager and repeated his words.

 

It isnt, that is because it is no longer considered traffic when all the cars are parked!

 

your right driver it called CRAWLING

 

I never had one say or do anything stupid, actually.

Maybe the reason (part of it, anyway) was because everywhere I worked the driver made his own delivery appointments and arrangements. That's common (maybe the norm?) in flatbedding since the freight is so variable. You take some pretty odd stuff to some pretty odd places, and that sort of inconsistency doesn't lend itself to "canned" solutions spit out by a computer program, or some airhead looking at an atlas. The dispatchers all knew that, and gave the driver as much latitude as they needed to get the job done. In short, they tended to stay out of your business of driving the truck.

Which isn't to say I didn't get routed through downtown Pottsville, PA, or Elizabeth, NJ a time or two, but I never followed dispatcher directions without double checking them, anyway, so no harm done.

 

probably when i used to run with a day cab from Mass to Va, i was told, "there is a motel at every exit along the highway".........to wit i would respond, "you're right, but not every motel at every exit has truck parking"........

 

wow. i dont even know where to begin on that one. you should've said good im glad you know how to read a map, congrats haha

 

dispatch words of wisdom"--just put some cardboard in front of the hazmat--they wont see it when you drop the walmart food"