"Your appointment isn't until noon . . .

you can’t fix stupid.

 

Just amazing how stupid some places are.

 

Shippers do a lot of inane things ... I stopped worrying about it a long time ago. I will get loaded/unloaded eventually and there will be another load waiting when I'm finished.

 

They do that BS so you’re technically late when you finally get to the office and they don’t have to pay you detention.

 

You take it now, or you rejects it.
I’m not walking back to my truck just to turn and walk back in the cold.

 

Take a picture of yourself standing at the window with the clock in the background, or if you're at the speaker or guardshack. Your phone will show the time and date of the pic.

 

That's why its a good thing to work for a company that pays detention based on arrive call. That is if one is a company driver.

 

Good Idea - Time stamp everything - even though a broker will promise you the World until you drop off the load then never answer your call again!

 

Been there more than once. There probably can be a number of reasons why it may happen, I've often though it could be due to various reasons ranging from control freak, or too stupid to know how to manage the inbound traffic efficiently, to strict management instructions and the guard just wanting to keep his job.