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The countdown begins now....the one that counts the time until someone comes along and tells you that you're an islamaphobe....3....2.....1

I disagree....I don't think FECC KNOWINGLY signs on these kind of people. I think unscrupulous fleet owners DO and perhaps a few slip through the cracks when they're in orientation at Green, showered and shaved up. This is the kind of thing that the safety liaison is looking at, maybe the...

You're right, she acted like a brat. As for dispatch backing you up, it helps when they can actually hear what's going on as opposed to being told about it second hand. We once had a shipping person get really nasty with Jim about how the truck was loaded. The more Jim tried to explain, nicely...

Now, that's funny......where does she go when she roams around while driving/riding in her personal vehicle?? :eek: Sounds like you had a real brat on your hands.

It doesn't make good business sense for them to "farm out" a load to an outside carrier if they have to pay that carrier more. I think that jjoerger gives us reason to care and he gives our carrier reason to pause..... Why would FECC be willing to accept a truck and driver like the one...

Wow that is good!!:D

Phil, stop being the enabler. To date he hasn't had any urge to put those golf clubs on the truck! ;)

LOL...good one. Does make ya wonder. Did she see that big sleeper and just decide she'd be more comfortable in the back? Maybe she was going after a snack!:p

When I was a kid, I had a friend that ended up with a moth in her ear while she was sleeping. They had to take her to ER to get the thing out, it was still alive and buzzing in there. Waaaay into my adulthood, I slept on my side with my ear covered with my sheet......freaks me out just thinking...

The time that it takes for extended negotiation is robbing the customer but no one seems to look at it that way.

Funny that you should post that because that is what we did, just through natural instinct. The dispatcher made a counter offer of .10 less all miles than what we had requested and we turned the load down. The next call we got was the same load offered at the rate we requested. I don't say that...

This is pretty much the same method we use with the exception that we don't answer a question with a question. They asked and we answered...pretty straightforward. The use of the word "tense" was not attached to the phone call process and the comments, it was concerning offer after offer of...

Ok, so we're going to be very technical, eh? Would you presume that personal comments were encouraged or discouraged from the dispatcher training staff within FECC?

I would say yes, tense. When you're trying to get work and offer after offer comes through cheap, cheap, and cheap again....you might define the mood as tense. I suppose I could have used a different word but it wouldn't have changed the flavor of the thread. The question remains to you, have...

Ok...this is getting old......surely we're not the only people that are getting these comments from dispatchers when contacted about what rate we would agree to do a load. Again today, when asked what rate we would take to do a specific load, the dispatcher feels the need to inform us that the...

I think it should be inserted here that not all unions have the power to get their members higher wages and better benefits. I know family members that worked in a shop that was represented by a small union and I had a hard time figuring out just what that union was doing for them. Their wages...

Can you not have a God given right and then have to fight to keep it? Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...God given or "natural" rights. I don't see health care as a right, it's a privilege, just like your drivers license. God doesn't give you the health care policy, it's not a...

Ya gotta know that someone's gonna come along and say they're "rose-colored". ;)

Yep....when ya put it that way....I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.....just sayin':eek:

Well, ya know....Toby Keith was canceled from a July 4th ABC special some years back after Peter Jennings listened to his song and didn't like the lyrics "we'll put a boot in your a**" so I thought it best to route around any controversy!:p:D