November to remember and chit chat

Ragman

Veteran Expediter
Retired Expediter
Pre-booked for tomorrow,......Livonia - Findley - Maumee - And of course --- Livonia.
Home safe and sound, thank you very much. Now to get in my recliner and do what I do best.,......zzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

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blizzard2014

Veteran Expediter
Driver
It was. Not your issue though. MacroPoint worked fine!! Every 30 even! Some trackers are just too lazy to check emails. Even after I explained how often they're sending and that their pro # is the FIRST number in the subject. But all good. Life goes on!!

Working on cup o Joe # 2!!

Is that load from R P Expediting? I had them all set up on Sylectus to receive automatic updates and they kept on calling me every two hours. Finally I just let them put my driver on their own macropoint. That is why you need a night time guy Murray. I don't care how automated things are at any company, in this business you're always going to get that oddball phone call in the middle of the night. I have Active call me quite often after midnight asking if I have a tractor trailer and we don't even run those. I wonder if people call just to check if you're really 24/7 dispatch. You need to pay someone 30 bucks a night to handle the phone calls so you can sleep. When you don't get good sleep at night, you aren't going to be as quick on the draw in the AM.
 

OntarioVanMan

Retired Expediter
Owner/Operator
Is that load from R P Expediting? I had them all set up on Sylectus to receive automatic updates and they kept on calling me every two hours. Finally I just let them put my driver on their own macropoint. That is why you need a night time guy Murray. I don't cmare how automated things are at any company, in this business you're always going to get that oddball phone call in the middle of the night. I have Active call me quite often after midnight asking if I have a tractor trailer and we don't even run those. I wonder if people call just to check if you're really 24/7 dispatch. You need to pay someone 30 bucks a night to handle the phone calls so you can sleep. When you don't get good sleep at night, you aren't going to be as quick on the draw in the AM.
In my case I just shot the broker an email with my current location and revised ETA since this is a cross dock hopefully avoid one of those phone goals
 

akkshole

Veteran Expediter
Owner/Operator
US Air Force
Just stopped en route at Iowa80...taking time to drool over the chrome and lights as usual...can take me out of the chicken truck...but can't keep me from imagining my PM with lights and chrome...loaded 6pm in Berea, OH for 9am del in Red Oak, IA...with a paid relocation back to Chicago
 

blizzard2014

Veteran Expediter
Driver
In my case I just shot the broker an email with my current location and revised ETA since this is a cross dock hopefully avoid one of those phone goals

If I was Murray, I would allow all of you guys to contact the brokers directly and provide them with position updates. He has some of the most professional drivers on EO. Some drivers though are too crude to be allowed to communicate with the brokers. I used to do a lot of my own position updates when I was a driver for Charles. You are a good driver being proactive like that. The more the brokers get to know how good of a drivers you all are, the more loads you will be offered.
 

blizzard2014

Veteran Expediter
Driver
Did these fall out of Your Van

I need a pill that will keep me on a darn diet. I have been on a no carb diet for two days now and all I can think about over and over in my mind is an apple fritter. It is becoming relentless to the point that I might just break down and eat said fritter. My blood glucose morning numbers for the past two days have been 75, and my post meal numbers are well under a hundred. This is without medication. I never take Metformin when I go low carb because it makes me hypoglycemic. I wish I could eat a Bigmac and large fries and still have these numbers. I have a few hours to decide whether or not I'm going to stick with this diet. Will the Bigmac win? To be continued...
 
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