Ok, you're a dispatcher and you have a customer call with a load that you know good well is a lousy load, or you see a couple lousy loads on a load board, and you have a truck in that area. What do you do? Do you not even bother offering it to the driver, or do you throw it out there to see if the driver wants it? My rule is, unless a driver tells me up front that he won't take X or doesn't want to go to Y or won't run for under Z miles, I'm throwing anything out there that I see and it's up to the driver if he wants to run it or not. I'm not forcing dispatch on anyone and I'm not holding acceptance rates against anyone, but it's not really my job either to decide which loads are going to be offered to a driver and which ones aren't. It's also not my fault if all of the available freight in a given day or week just happens to be short runs or otherwise undesirable freight. It's a driver's job to make those decisions on which runs to take and which ones not to take.
On the flip side, any company that holds it against you when you turn down lousy freight isn't really worth driving for. There are even times where I know that the load I'm offering isn't that good and I know the driver would be better off turning it down, and there are times when I'm surprised by a driver accepting it. A dispatcher's job is to offer what's available to the trucks and it's the driver's responsibility to evaluate the load to see if it's worth accepting or not. You can't blame the dispatcher for making the offer.
