There are a couple of threads about missed load opportunities due to a call to a cell number with no follow up second call to a second phone number. I can't reply in that forum but also wanted to post here where it might help others with different carriers or just researching. A few thoughts in no specific order:
1. It is our responsibility to receive calls. That may mean keeping a cell phone set to the loudest ring setting and keeping it almost as close as an ugly nose ring or an ugly tattoo or an ugly wart at all times, emphasis on ALL, as in every moment of our lives. Yeah, that's inconvenient and annoying but there are countertops or shelves or something, even in bathrooms. During a shower is it more likely to hear the loudest cell ring from 4 feet away or the home phone or motel phone through a closed door from the other room 15 or more feet away?
2. If one really wants the call going through the home phone then put the cell into call forwarding to the home number during those times.
3. It isn't dispatch's duty to hold our hands and walk through a checklist for us. It's their duty to cover loads. They should make a call to the first truck in line and hopefully cover the load so they can move on to their next item. A call. As in one call.
4. It's easy to be unhappy in position one if dispatch doesn't make multiple calls and do whatever to get us the load. Let's jump to position two. If we're the guy in position two we're suddenly glad dispatch didn't do more than make the one call they should make because now we have a load we might not otherwise have.
Bottom line, we either give control to someone else and hope they do what we want and what will benefit us or we retain the control and make it happen.
1. It is our responsibility to receive calls. That may mean keeping a cell phone set to the loudest ring setting and keeping it almost as close as an ugly nose ring or an ugly tattoo or an ugly wart at all times, emphasis on ALL, as in every moment of our lives. Yeah, that's inconvenient and annoying but there are countertops or shelves or something, even in bathrooms. During a shower is it more likely to hear the loudest cell ring from 4 feet away or the home phone or motel phone through a closed door from the other room 15 or more feet away?
2. If one really wants the call going through the home phone then put the cell into call forwarding to the home number during those times.
3. It isn't dispatch's duty to hold our hands and walk through a checklist for us. It's their duty to cover loads. They should make a call to the first truck in line and hopefully cover the load so they can move on to their next item. A call. As in one call.
4. It's easy to be unhappy in position one if dispatch doesn't make multiple calls and do whatever to get us the load. Let's jump to position two. If we're the guy in position two we're suddenly glad dispatch didn't do more than make the one call they should make because now we have a load we might not otherwise have.
Bottom line, we either give control to someone else and hope they do what we want and what will benefit us or we retain the control and make it happen.
