Dispatchers Brain Size?

[kangar0085]

Dispatch fault 1000 percent you can't be checking every little thing and if you do they get angry at you for doubting them. Thats all good but not when I'm sent to Ohare airport with no building number no directions or right adress and no number to call...on top of it all the 2nd shift dispatcher is "at home with his family" while I'm getting reamed by tolls around the airport :) :) :)

[cheri1122]

>Dispatch fault 1000 percent you can't be checking every
>little thing and if you do they get angry at you for
>doubting them.
If you "can't be checking every little thing" when it's clear that you need to, you're ALWAYS going to have trouble. If a dispatcher gets angry at you for verifying details, calmly explain why you are doing it. They'll get over it.
Thats all good but not when I'm sent to Ohare
>airport with no building number no directions or right
>adress and no number to call...on top of it all the 2nd
>shift dispatcher is "at home with his family" while I'm
>getting reamed by tolls around the airport :) :) :)
It doesn't make a bit of difference where 'the second shift dispatcher' is - there's more than one, really! It's the job of whichever dispatcher is on duty to assist you with accurate info, if what you've been given is wrong.
As for the tolls - get out of the loop, dude, park somewhere until you get the right destination, next time, huh?

[nightcreacher]

I've done many cross docks at Fed Ex Freight around the country.I've questioned why one place was better than another, usually cause where
I felt was better,was closed.There have been places that should have been open were not going to be,but that was found out early in the run.
Our dispatchers do the best they can,this isn't an easy business,and unless you spend a day in a dispatchers shoes,have some respect for them.

[nightcreacher]

>Dispatch fault 1000 percent you can't be checking every
>little thing and if you do they get angry at you for
>doubting them. Thats all good but not when I'm sent to Ohare
>airport with no building number no directions or right
>adress and no number to call...on top of it all the 2nd
>shift dispatcher is "at home with his family" while I'm
>getting reamed by tolls around the airport :) :) :)

you were offered a run,should have had info where to pick it up and where to deliver it.If this info isnt on your qualcom,then it is up to you as a professional to asks those questions,then you wont be driving around O'Hare,paying those extra tolls,but if your paying extra tolls.your really lost,not that hard to do O'hare without paying any tolls

[cheri1122]

I respect anyone who does their job right, and corrects it to the best of their ability when they don't. Just as I do.
So far, I haven't ever had a dispatcher give me any kind of trouble, because I treat them with the same courtesy I expect. It works for me, anyway.