Night & Weekend Dispatch

CJ wrote:

CJ they often assign the new hires in the overnight and weekend slots. Less experience equals less efficient. You remember what it's like to be learning your job, don't yah CJ?

I have actually helped on the weekends, 2 people as opposed to the 4-5 during prime time. However the workload can be overwhelming because there are two people answering calls and working with up to 100 drivers, instead of four or five. Lots of stuff can quickly fall through the cracks and spiral out of control.

CJ if you come across to them in a similar fashion as you are in this thread, perhaps that partially explains the root cause of your issue. "Humble up" a bit. Try to understand their world and then help them to better understand yours. Meet them halfway so to speak, and things might improve for you. Throwing them under the bus isn't getting it done, try a different approach.

G-town, as I have just explained to Big Scott.... because I rant on he internet, it doesn't mean I do it in real life.

No, we have night and weekend people in our terminal. I say that, but only because when I send a free form, you're liable to get a response from five or six different people.

And no, I hadn't realized the newbies were put into that position. Knowing this information puts things in perspective --- I'll take that advice. Thanks.

I read what Big Scott wrote. And unlike him I offer no apology and could care less if I p*** you off.

You come across like a ****ie know-it-all. That's a reflection of your attitude and is likely projected in most of your professional interactions with dispatch, the DMs, planners and customers. I call 'em like I see them and you my friend are not fooling anyone.

You have trashed Swift and Swift personnel in at least two other threads today and have elevated yourself above all of them. Really bad form rook, unprofessional. Fact is none of them got to where they are by being stupid and most of them were drivers and possibly still are. They already know how to do your job, yet you barely have a clue how they do theirs.

Like I already said to you; "humble-up". Bite the hand that feeds you enough times and you start to go hungry.

I remember replying to you, but I guess my response never got to you. Sorry, man.

CJ Please take a good hard look in the mirror. You come across as an arrogant jerk. It is possible to change, you may want to seek professional help, seriously!

I don't know about their dispatching system, but ours... If you've accepted your preplans and committed to them, as soon as you send in your empty call macro the computer automatically dispatches you on your next preplanned load. If you're not delivering and dropping in a yard we semd in a macro (ive dropped a loaded trailer). In that case if your grabbing another load from that same yard and don't give an empty trailer number, it won't autodispatch you and YES, you have to often remind whomever to dispatch you. To save their time and ours, we just put in any random empty trailer number sitting at that yard. We don't actually hook up to it or anything and then our autodispatched load comes through and then we hook up to whichever loaded trailer we were supposed to get. Hopefully that makes sense.