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

Friday, when I knew and ARGUED about where a customer was dispatch said go there.

When one of the girls said "oh that was the wrong address", I wanted to reach through the phone and slap her and say I KNEW THAT YOU BYATCH!

 

I am in Lowes getting a 3/4-10 Nut I needed.

Dispatch calls (one of the girls that has never been in a truck). "where is your trailer?" I know where it is. "How much can you haul?" I think I'm good for 10K. "OK I have a Hazmat Tote that picks up at 2AM." 2AM! I cannot do a legal logbook. "I don't understand" Do you want me to run illegal?. Where does it pickup? "Down here near the shop."
I'd need to leave home at midnight, I'd get no sleep. I would not be safe at that time.
"So you don't want the run?" No.

Sounds like PAM all over again.

 

The stupidest thing my dispatcher said to me was when I worked at Knight this past Thanksgiving I was due to be home any time on Wednesday, They wanted me to bobtail 70 miles from the house and go get a empty trailer and take the empty trailer to knoxville to get loaded at 12 pm on Thanksgiving Day said the shipper is open, I did not leave the house lol you think I don't know when shippers and recievers aint home LOL!

 

Great thread here! So I'll toss this one in, it's the honest truth. While working for a Custom Cutter, I needed to run the grain bucket up near Steel N.D., from Winner S.D. late one day. The boss gives me directions up off 94 and a few miles north, and adds "when you see the green mail box, you'll be there". Sure enough, I took off like a rabbit, till I got real close and re-read my notes, when it hit me, how am I going to see a GREEN mail box at midnight.

 

My old boss when i worked as a delivery guy pre cdl at the feed store would contantly give me hand drawn maps which included landmarks like 'the old stien farm' (which is now the roberts farm) and the best 'turn at the horse with the black spot' (suprisingly correct, and a real horse, not a stautue or painting on a barn)

As far a office rat during my big truck days- july 4th weekend 2011. Delivery 8am down by cape may, nj. Dispatch want me to then reload in newark (140 miles away) then deliver off exit 43 out on long island by 2pm. Uhh..... needless to say i went home and loaded the li load tuesday morning.

 

I've been running a dedicated for seven months now. I'll know that loads that aren't even planned yet 5-7 days down the line will get screwed because the current load is abnormal due to times or drops. I call my dispatcher on Friday telling him this load is going to screw the next load after that always delivers at 10:00am on Wednesdays. He tells me there's no possible way I can know that because the planners don't even have that load scheduled yet and not to worry about it. After a good 10 minutes of arguing with him I tell him flat out I really don't care what he thinks, just tell the customer service rep. Sure enough, five minutes later the drop that was the problem is suddenly removed from my load and there is the reload right after that comes across the computer delivering at 10:00 on Wed just like I said. I couldn't help myself and sent a message saying, "What do I know? I'm just a truck driver."

 

Start my day, no problem. I do the d and h in a half hour. I get a message the delivery has a new destination. 10 hr drive as the crow flies, not as the traffic flows, the weather goes or idiots along the way. Sent a message back saying it ain't going to happen, you need to contact the receiver and let them know.

According to the BOL, I'm maxed out in the box and then I get "No need to scale it, just get it there on time." via QC.

 

I had a dispatcher say to me I don't know why it will take you that long to get there it is only 3 inch's on the map

 

Makes you want to reach right through the phone and slap 'em!

 

Ok, it's not from a dispatcher but since crazy directions were brought up, I have to tell this story. My wife and I were bar hopping through the Florida Keys. We stopped at a liquor store to get directions to The No Name Pub on Big Pine Key. This is what the guy says, word for word, "At the traffic light, turn right. Stay to the right where the road forks. Hang a left at the first stop sign. Keep following the road around and two minutes after you start thinking I just sent you on a wild goose chase, it will be on your left". And sure enough, it was right there.