Has anyone got the new Panther boards mastered Yet?

[miguy1957]

If you are like me, You know were alot of the customers are and know were you used to sit. But you now you can be 10 miles from a customer and not on the right board, and wont know it unless you drive over to the customer and check then drive back to your layover spot, and if you are not you lost your board position on both boards and wasted 20 miles. Its been over a month and no update on what they are doing? Will they ever let us know where one board starts and another begains?? And how come they chose the smallest towns in the state for the boards?? With no good layover spots in alot of areas. Anyone with any Ideas?????????? [rant over]
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[pelicn]

We haven't figured it out, but we've also been lucky and not had to use it very much. I do know that when we POD and see the board and position we're in we usually wait it out. With the cost of fuel, we are not Empty moving for pennies a mile.
Unless it's a total glut of trucks, if they need us, they know where we are

 

[butterfly610]

We haven't had much of a problem with it, but we also have the internet so I turn on the computer so that as soon as we POD I can see what board we're on and who else is around. Also, since you can look it up online, it updates quite frequently so when you get to a place, you can see which board you show up on. The internet has helped a lot with these new boards.

In all fairness to some of the newer drivers, one of the problems before was that people who had been here a long time knew the customers and places to wait, and could get loaded faster than new people. They should all have a fair opportunity. It seems that most of the time now they dispatch in order. I've had some experiences where it seemed like it wasn't dispatched in order, but for the most part we've had good luck with the new system.

I think the idea of some of the boards in smaller areas, is that if you're in that area they can send you in lots of different directions and your closer to more loads. Don't know for sure, but it seems that way with the MT move offers and some of the boards. Hope that helps a little. Good luck!!!

 

[miguy1957]

All I know is before the change when I sat at home there was 10-15 loads a day comming out within 40-50 miles and now I live on a 1 or less a day board. Its no fun to have to deadhead 20 miles from home instead of waiting at the house..........
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[ebsprintin]

I was planning to ask something similar [ but I was going to post in the panther dedicated forum below instead of here, but since we're here...]

I did figure out one thing yesterday. Let the system catch up before requesting board position when arriving in a new area. I came wheeling into Dodge and sent in my mac 32. I was north of the town (I was trying to find the north edge of the board), but the board position showed me as in a town that I passed through 45 minutes prior. I have to guess that I need to sit longer before requesting my board position.

Here's the kicker. In the confusion of finding my location/board I asked dispatch how I could find a board if the board didn't show up during my board inquiry. Dispatch responded that if I am within 20 miles of the town then I would be on that board. Has anyone heard of a twenty mile rule? ...Okay, I won't turn this into a discussion on unpublished company policies, so I'll leave it at that.

Having a computer connection and using the panther online board position is much quicker in tracking board position and location.

eb

 

[miguy1957]

I dont think there is a 20 mile rule, because sitting at home Im on one board and the next closest board is only 15 miles from me according to the Panther web site.
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[davekc]

It seems to be a lot of tweeking going on. Cleveland was a board last week, and surprise!, today it doesn't exist?

 

[miguy1957]

It would be nice if they would let us know what they have changed. No updates on the drivers web in over a month. Be nice if they would say what they are trying to do and what states they are redoing. Getting harder to play the game when they change the rules everyday...........Seem like they are making it harder than it has to be. Just take the major cities make a 50-60 mile radius fill in the zip codes, and use dwell time from your last load not when you got to the board and BINGO your done fair to everyone......
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[Turtle]

They're redoing the board, but I swear they don't know what they are doing. There's no intelligent foresight involved. They pick these little towns as board, not because it makes any sense, but because that's how it works out, that's the town that's in the middle of the board, half way between one board and another board. They can call it the Malinta board or they can call it OH7 Board, I don't care, but at least calling it the OH7 Board suggests some intelligence at work behind the board changes. Malinta. Too funny. It would make far too much sense to call it the Bowling Green Board, or the Defiance Board. But that would show intelligence, instead of letting the computer programming chips fall where they may. Calling the Lexington, KY board the "Paris Board" is a perfect example.

 

[jwc]

I'm beliving that who ever is doing them has no common sence or is so intelengent that they are actualy stupid

 

[miguy1957]

I'm beliving that who ever is doing them has no common sence or is so intelengent that they are actualy stupid

I dont think the are really stupid, I just think that they, THINK they know more than they do, and wont ask the O/O what would work. From Panthers point of view the boards dont matter they can get the loads covered one way or the other. While th O/O trys to set himself up for the next load ,but could be just a couple of miles away from another board and sitting days with no offer and someone just unloads and gets a offer just because he is on the right board but farther away from the pick up than the guy that has sat for days. If they would just dispatch using dwell time not board position it would be more fair to everyone. Just my oppinion............
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[OntarioVanMan]

Doesn't Panther not take dwell time into consideration???? It's hard to believe because I was 5 miles off a board and another one just unloaded and went to that board he'd get right back out and i'd not be offered the load.....and left to rot.

 

[miguy1957]

Thats the way that it was explained to me, they have to use all the trucks and have none left on that board then they will go to to the next closest board and take who ever is 1st out on that board. Ive asked afew times and thats what ive been told.
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[OntarioVanMan]

Thats the way that it was explained to me, they have to use all the trucks and have none left on that board then they will go to to the next closest board and take who ever is 1st out on that board. Ive asked afew times and thats what ive been told.

Thats...thats....outrageous.....

 

[miguy1957]

Im just hope they fix all the problems with their new system soon........
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[Turtle]

It's not outrageous if they'd have the board boundaries defined so we'd know what the heck we're doing. The way the system is set up, the shipper is going to be physically located on a board, say, the Romulus, MI board. When dispatch plugs in the shipper's address it'll tell them which board it is, then dispatch will call up that board and see who all is on it, and who's first up for the load offer. There's no reason to look on another board to see if someone has been sitting there longer. Depending on the board, tho, they may just do a 50-miles-out thing and see what boards are there and who is on them. Sometimes the 50 miles out will encompass more than one board, and in that case they'll usually go with dwell time in conjunction with board position. Mainly it'll depend on the pickup time, who's closest, dwell time and board position. But for the most part, dwell time doesn't cross boards, as they have no reason to check adjoining boards when there's someone already sitting right there on the board they're looking at.

 

[ebsprintin]

Turtle,

I'm not even sure that all the boards have a shipper as the company says. I've been stalking the Lone Star, TX board. And I'm suspecting the Jerrell, TX board as being a similar case. For about a week and a half I covered the Lone Star board. I had loads regularly, but the loads came off the boards to the north and south. The north and south boards show no loads per day, but I was going to those places regularly. I called dispatch and asked if they could tell me who the shipper was in the Lone Star neighborhood and they didn't know. This doesn't mean there isn't a shipper in Lone Star, but the numbers I've seen don't correlate with the load counts that the company publishes. With the amount of time I sat on that board without a load there is no way it could support a one load a day average. They would have to have a barrage of loads on one day to catch up to one per day and there is rarely more than one vehicle sitting in the area or anywhere near by. Dallas doesn't support the published load count either. Maybe if they averaged the surrounding areas into the load count, but the company says that's not how it works. So who am I supposed to believe?

eb

 

[Turtle]

Well, no, I 'm sure that every board out there doesn't have a shipper, or at least a regular shipper. But every shipper is on a board. The Lone Star board is a good example of how no intelligent foresight was used to determine the boards. They didn't call it Lone Star because be we loads out of Lone Star, that would make too much sense. It's merely that the little Zip Code of Lone Star just so happened to fall in the middle of a board, half way between one board and another, so that's what it's called. Kind of like the Malinta, OH board.

It's like the Paris, KY board, where it should be called the Lexington board, as it's more of a Lexington area board. But, but calling it Paris, because Paris sits between two boards, and how they've redone the boards, loads coming out of Lexington, Berea, Richmond, they're all on the Paris board, which is fine, but the problem is that now the Paris board also encompasses the Flying J in Walton, KY and the truck stops in Florence. You're sitting in Walton and now you're gonna be offered a load picking up 80 miles away in Richmond, but you won't even be considered for a load picking up 20 miles away in downtown Cincinnati. Intelligent foresight, common sense, none of it's being used on these boards.