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

Well today was a complete Cluster (fill in the blank) I Picked up in Cactus TX ( JBS Plant) for a delivery 2 days later in Rochester, MN, No Problem it is only 900 miles. So I make it to Southern Iowa on I 35 stop at 3:00 am well at 8:30 my #### qualcomm goes off. Customer Service rep send new Delivery, the customer can not store the product I am to take it to Le Mars, Iowa north of Sioux City to some cold Storage. My Delivery Info Stated Unknown Cold Storage, Le Mars IA. No Problem it was to deliver on the 23rd, and I am 6 hours from Le Mars, I call in let them know i will be there on the 22nd, and I need the address, phone number etc. Well I arrive in Le Mars and NO INFO, So I Call in to Night Dispatch, the first thing he says IS " why in the hell are you in Le Mars, IA " your load delivers to MN", I tell him to look at the rest of the load notes. He does and say take it to the address on the BILLS. I am now fuming mad, I again explain why I am where I am, and that I need either a Phone Number or a address, all the while My truck is parked in the middle of the right lane of Business 75 in Po Dunk Iowa, and Some Very nice local pulls up ( I am on the Wireless headset) and Ask Where I am going I tell him I have no clues nor does the jerk off on the phone, He Ask what are you hauling, I tell him. He then informs me HE is the night Super at the local Nor Cam Cold storage and has been waiting for me, and that the local PD Called him and told him where I was sitting. He tells me that My wonderful Customer service rep told Him I would be in BY 12:00PM. So I follow him to the whse and get unloaded, NO issue Drop the trailer ( I am taking a 34 at a Hotel) and call in that I have signed bills and load is empty. I get another person on the phone this time and HE goes off about Me being in wrong place etc, I let him go off for ten minutes, then I had to ask how far does he sit from the other guy, he says right next to him, I respond " just ask him I do not have the time to explain this to you I am getting some food and checking into the hotel" To which he says So when are you gonna deliver your Load, To which I ask Do You know how to read the computer messages we send in, if so Read the last one I sent and figure it out. (THIS gets better)
So I check into the room 4 hours ago, and I just got a call from number 3 Dispatcher telling me I am not going to make my Delivery ontime, After I stopped laughing I told her are you serious I won't make it, I better go tell the Consignee I have to reload and Go Hide and Be late cause She Said so.

 

some people are complete idiots

 

disp: Go hook up to that loaded trailer
me: which one
disp: that one with placards, it may have some cross members broken and leans a bit but..
me: I don't think so budd

 

As I'm pulling into the receiver I get the message on the QuallComm: "Are you going to be able to make your delivery on time?"

 

I guess Ninw would be " Ok we understand your Trailer Brakes are locked up, Can you drop the trailer and deliver the load Bobtail?"
Seriouslt Tyrone Mosley at CR England asked me that. I Said Sure as soon As you explain to me how to fit 42,000 pounds of Rocky Road in My sleeper.

 

Oh yea forgot this one.
Cr England sends me to a Cold Storage to unload some Pizza's(No Problem Right) Well I get there the guys says we canceled this load 5 days ago why did you come here with them? I respond Because I'm a truck Driver I Go where the Dispatcher tells ne the load Go's.
He says Well Your not delivering them Here@ I say Fine Please Sign Refuesed on Bills. He promply Stamps Recived and walks off. I run him down and explain his mistake. He says I am not signing Rerfuesed we have to pay return shiping if I do! I call Tyrone He says NP take them to a shelter and Donate get recipet they just bought them. I Say Ok what Shelter do we go to here or just want me to find one. He says No I'll find one. and quam it to you. About 15 min Later I'm told to taken them To Jimmy Hale Mission In Birmingham AL. I say Ok wiil Do Then Get my Map out and find the Best route to Birmingham From Sandiego California. Man some heads rolled on that one.

 

what not one of running through the mountains and the dispatcher was asking why it was taking so long since the map was flat

 

im a local pickup and delivery driver and i get all of my pickups through a computer (not exactly a qualcomm)

atleast twice a week i got an address that is wrong, incomplete, or no address at all....


and how exactly do you expect me to get to this shipper?

 

UPS load from Werner pulling a loaded trailer out of LA CA, going to denver CO. Load is set up kinda weird, 2 stops. One in one part of denver, co, where we are to drop this trailer and pickup an empty then go to another ups and drop that empty and pickup another empty, at least thats what it seemed to be saying on the QC.

I didn't bother asking night dispatch because they are idiots but at the beginning of my next driving shift I asked, we were at hte small truck stop west of denver west of vail mountain. Small little place with a nice restaurant. I asked why we were taking an empty to from the one UPS to the other UPS.

The reply... "Aren't you loaded?"