jujubeans
OVM Project Manager
And the hubby thinks I'm hooked on one...lol
March 2017 this and that.
- Thread starter Ragman
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I take 2 and JuJu says that is too many..LOL
a little moisture here as well..not a lot just some....
Me four! Embracing all of this stupidity is starting to wear on me. I picked up a load yesterday afternoon going 726 miles. My 16 hour clock started at 16:45. I burned up 50 minutes (call it an hour) driving to shipper and loading. I now have only a paltry 15 hours to drive 726 miles. That means I must somehow average 48 miles an hour. My delivery time is 09:15 and my gps gives an arrival time of 05:32. Even I should be able to make that! I left the shipper chanting "I think I can, I think I can".
Twenty minutes down the road I get a QC message stating I must take my 5 hour break by 03:00. Golly jee. Is the 16 hour rule now the 10¼ hour rule? Four hours later I get a call informing me that because I must take a five hour break by 03:00 the load will swap. I didn't even bother to try to explain their mistake. This expedite stuff isn't brain surgery. Any moron can drive a van and I'm living proof. But I thought to be a dispatcher one requirement would be at least a grade school education that included some basic arithmetic and how to tell time. The real kicker was that I swapped with an outside carrier! WTF! Where do they find these employees and who are those dudes in the back seat of Calvin's car?
if they don't adjust the time...just subtract the time waiting and add it unto the drive time...adjust it yourself and let dispatch deal with it...its their job...they just don't understand how it gnaws on us to be looking late..or feeling late.
Been there done that, 2 hours into trip I send message to adjust delivery time. Usually works
Lost in Space.
Usually, if not always, I get no adjustment and the let's see how it goes line
If I'm still on this load, looking like this afternoon now. One of the reasons I hate booking a day in advance, it hardly ever goes as planned
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Slo-Ride
Veteran Expediter
There is a load floating around Indy for someone, a little over 14000lbs.. Wonder if I will get a refusal on that one?
I hate when they pull that line... they are too lazy or no balls to tell the customer the truth...
Usually, if not always, I get no adjustment and the let's see how it goes line
If I'm still on this load, looking like this afternoon now. One of the reasons I hate booking a day in advance, it hardly ever goes as planned
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Can't your company pre plan it on you and keep you available for something else short?
Back in service, at Kick's old favorite J (Frystown PA). Lost a bid to California at .70 
I wonder what schmuck is going across America for 60 or 65 cents?
I wonder what schmuck is going across America for 60 or 65 cents?