LittleBigMan
Active Expediter
Brand new here. It was suggested that I make my first post in the introductions forum. But I cant find the darn thing.
Anyway, let me start by saying: FORGIVE ME FATHER FOR I HAVE DISPATCHED.
There. The first time I confessed, the Lord High Dispatcher (r.i.p., Benny) told me to do the following: Drink three scotches, and watch a sporting event, and you shall be free.
So now for the past thirty plus years I have had to do this EVERY....DARN....NIGHT...to atone. But it does indeed kill the pain.
This forum seems almost to be a dangerous place for us dispatchers to be hanging out in. I don't know. I guess I'll find out. But please don't hate me. I am considered a DRIVER'S DISPATCHER. I was the guy tangling with management to get the driver a little bit extra on the load, for running all those d/h miles. I didn't take it personally when a driver turned down a load. I usually understood his/her reasoning, and just moved on to the next driver.
But that was a few years back. Things have changed since the recession. I hear the complaints. I see some of the postings. How can a driver say he isn't making any money, but in the same breath turn down a load offer? "I only run 400 miles or more". "I'll wait for something better to come along".
Most of my freight these days comes from web sites. Out of a thousand plus load offers a day, I have the opportunity to bid on 100 plus. It is so competetive, I am lucky if I get ten. And then after the refusals from drivers, I am lucky if I end up with 5 for the day.
(sip my scotch, check out the baseball score...move on).
Anyway, thanks for letting me in here. I will do my best to make you laugh, which is something I have always been good at.
Anyway, let me start by saying: FORGIVE ME FATHER FOR I HAVE DISPATCHED.
There. The first time I confessed, the Lord High Dispatcher (r.i.p., Benny) told me to do the following: Drink three scotches, and watch a sporting event, and you shall be free.
So now for the past thirty plus years I have had to do this EVERY....DARN....NIGHT...to atone. But it does indeed kill the pain.
This forum seems almost to be a dangerous place for us dispatchers to be hanging out in. I don't know. I guess I'll find out. But please don't hate me. I am considered a DRIVER'S DISPATCHER. I was the guy tangling with management to get the driver a little bit extra on the load, for running all those d/h miles. I didn't take it personally when a driver turned down a load. I usually understood his/her reasoning, and just moved on to the next driver.
But that was a few years back. Things have changed since the recession. I hear the complaints. I see some of the postings. How can a driver say he isn't making any money, but in the same breath turn down a load offer? "I only run 400 miles or more". "I'll wait for something better to come along".
Most of my freight these days comes from web sites. Out of a thousand plus load offers a day, I have the opportunity to bid on 100 plus. It is so competetive, I am lucky if I get ten. And then after the refusals from drivers, I am lucky if I end up with 5 for the day.
(sip my scotch, check out the baseball score...move on).
Anyway, thanks for letting me in here. I will do my best to make you laugh, which is something I have always been good at.
