No Loads For You….

Just G wrote:

I wasn't complaining or saying that was improper. I'm sure they know what they're doing personell-wise.

It was just a farily stark realization for me of exactly where the bar is and what expectations I'll need to meet to fit into the system. They've already pointed out the timeliness/recordkeeping/myriad other benefits of the electronic communications.

I knew that G.

I’m trying to teach you something... the amount of time you interact directly with dispatch is marginal. Over time an exception actually.

Nothing to be concerned with one bit. It’s reality and honestly, it’s not stark at all. Most of us prefer autonomy, being our own boss so to speak.

All good.

I think I've exchanged 3 qc messages with my dispatcher all week, and that was to tell him I needed to drop a trailer at the shop, and another one later to tell him that I found I blew out a shock absorber on my tractor and had already made an appointment for that. And a third to laugh at a snarky comment he made about the 200+ warning messages my trailer had sent me. He has 85 trucks on his fleet, btw. If he's calling me it's because he needs help and knows he can count on me, and if I'm calling him, usually it's because something went horribly wrong.

Detention isn't as black and white as it first seems, btw. And a dispatcher truly ripping off their driver at a large, reputable company, is more often than not the driver just not understanding how things really work out here. I had a buddy that insisted his dispatcher was stealing from him (my dispatcher, actually) and so he quit on the spot and is now stocking the shelves at a Walmart store in Tucson.

so he quit on the spot and is now stocking the shelves at a Walmart store in Tucson.

Sounds both exciting and challenging.