has anyone come across this situation before?

[pantherii]

Saturday at 4pm est. we recieved a load offer to kenosha,wi. Pick up was in South Carolina, and our current location was athens,ga. So dispatch gave us a bounus on d/h because we were 255 miles away from pick up. Excepted load hot footed it down to sc for a p/u at 9pm est. when we get there the shipper says a pantherii truck already picked up the load, so we get on the horn to dispatch,and to make a long story short the other pantherii truck picked up both loads, he was only suppose to pick up 9 skids, and the other 4 were for us, dispatch said sorry and gave us a dry run 99bucks plus gave us our d/h.
Just wondering if anybody ever got to a shipper and somebody else already picked up there load.
we are now out a 1,000 dollars and sitting in charleston,sc waiting for a new load offer.

 

[RichM]

That situation has happened to me twice with the old Roberts Express.One time in Jackson MI a tractor load to Kansas City was to be split between 2 D. Units, me and another one.
First D arrived and took all of the freight,he had no reason too as he did not get paid anymore,at least that is what I was told.
Somehow I think he got tractor money which would have been cheaper then paying 2 D units.

 

[LDB]

That happened to me once at Cat in Peoria. A 53' had been there earlier and what I was supposed to take was finished earlier than anticipated so they put it on the 53'. I had delivered to Mitsu in Normal so I wasn't that far away but they still paid me the $99 plus d/h. My next dispatch was back to them again. I was literally turning the steering wheel to pull into the plant off the main road when they beeped me it was a dry run. Another $99 and 10 miles back to the t/s. My next load offer picked up at guess where? This time they had the goods and I took it to Cat in Booneville, MO. It's annoying but I look at it that I made an extra $250 that day with far less expense or wear and tear on the truck.

Leo Bricker
OOIDA 677319
truck 4958
73's K5LDB
Support the entire Constitution, not just the parts you like.

 

[aquawarrior7]

This has happened to us as well.We are with Panther and we got t the pu. Finally found the shipper and a fedex cc pulled up and shipper guy ignored me and went to talk to fedex guy. Then they gave them our load and said this had been the case for a few hours and didn't know why we were here.

 

[davekc]

Pantherii wrote;
Just wondering if anybody ever got to a shipper and somebody else already picked up there load.
we are now out a 1,000 dollars and sitting in charleston,sc waiting for a new load offer.

Everyone that has been out here for any length of time has had the dry or cancelled run. We as well have had a pickup that was thrown on another truck at the last minute.
Certainly a pain, but it can happen. The good news is that it doesn't happen often.
Since they paid your deadhead, you are only out some of your time, not the $1,000 since you didn't make the run.
Figuring 4 hours on 225 miles would be $24.75 per hour calculated on $99.00 dry run pay. Not a winning lottery ticket but you still made a few bucks.
Hopefully you got a good run afterwards.

Davekc
owner
21 years

 

[highway star]

Companies who deal with Not Logical Move(NLM) have probably experienced this sort of thing. I was offered a load picking up in Cleveland while I was on my way to Lorain. I had the option of picking it up on my way, or, delivering first. I delivered first. When I got to Cleveland I was told the freight was given to another carrier. My dispatch called NLM and they were very rude, as if it might somehow be our fault. The lady said, with very rude attitude, that the freight better get there on time! Go figure. Got my dry run.

 

[ATeam]

We had something like it happen only in reverse. One load became two.

We were having breakfast with another team and a load offer came in, pickup 4 skids in MS, take them to Chicago. When we arrived there were 3 skids waiting. We told shipper the offer said 4. Shipper double checked. Not 4, 3 shipper said. We called dispatch. They checked. Said 3 was OK. Another person on dock made yet another call. Yep, he said, 3 it is; not 4. So we loaded 3 and off we went.

A few hours after our delivery, as we slept in the consignee's parking lot (with permission), our friends from breakfast arrived with the fourth skid. Shipper's error. Two full-paying loads for two trucks.

 

[Broompilot]

Got a call December 29th PU at 6 am 45 miles from where I live going 25 miles back towards the house. OK great, show up at 5:30 no one there yet 6:15 they wave me in just than a FECC tractor trailer pulls up, tells me she is there for the same load.

I call in not sure whats going on yeah were gona give you a cancel load pay. Great I made sure I was here on time to PU FECC contacted this other driver before contacting me knowing they had the load double covered but failed to contact one of us to forget it having both of us to cover it.

One good thing that was my final and last straw with them, I knew than it was over and my new company does not do STUPID things like this and one year now has proven themselves worthy of professional courtesy to its drivers. They have safegaurds in place to keep from embarrassing us and themselves of unprofessional scheduling. How do you think that looked in a customers eyes 2 trucks one load now theres a group thats got its act together.