What time izzit?

redytrk

Veteran Expediter
Charter Member
The time given to the driver is allways the time observed by the carriers home terminal.IE the times used by FECC,Panther.Tri State.Would allways be the Eastern time zone since they are located in Ohio. It is up to the dispatcher to convert the customers time into "Terminal time".
It usally works.Some times there is a slipup,like in the case of IN where most countys dont observe Daylight Savings Time.
This is the same way Driver logs are kept.Allways in the Carriers home terminal time.
 

theoldprof

Veteran Expediter
Thanks, redytrk. If I understand you, I set my Mickey Mouse watch to the home time of my carrier, for instance Ohio time. When I pick up a load in New York at 6:00 am it is picked up at 6:00 am Ohio time, and when I deliver it to Californy at 11:00 pm whatever day it is to be delivered, it is delivered at 11:00 pm Ohio time. Is that the way it is supposed to work? :+ :+
 

twodogsdaddy

Expert Expediter
I thought the time given for delivery was in the delivery time zone. Hence, one needed to be on their toes when picking up West and delivering back East.
 

Doggie Daddy

Veteran Expediter
what redytrk is saying is if your carrier is using EST,dont change any of your clocks and watches and you will be okay. DD.
 

aquawarrior7

Expert Expediter
Ha Ha, this is a funny question. We have this problem way to much. We are on Eastern time for our carrier, so thats what we are supposed to stay at. So we have a load picks up in Alabama ( Central time) drop off at say 6 AM in Portland Oregon (pacific time) so what do I do? Well I ask the dispatcher if he/she is certain of the time zone difference, We have to ask now. Then we have to decide if the dispatch actually cared enough to make certain with the customer that they understood the difference. Cause see 6am is 3am in Portland and that is an odd time to open a business or to be open if they are not open 24 hours. Usually when we have doubts we are correct about time being WRONG. A few times we got running late messages for the end parts of the trip only to get there an hour early then find out, yep we were correct they aren't even open until 6am their time.
Good luck is all I can say on times
 

X1_SRH

Expert Expediter
As a driver the rule to follow is to live by the time on your Qualcomm screen. All loads are booked and dispatched in home terminal time. The driver is not expected to compute time differences in different zones. That is the job of your company. Mistakes do happen from time to time, but if you did everything that you were supposed to do by the times on your QC, You have succesfully covered your own backside. If fingers start gettin pointed, then you have all the proof you'll need right there in the history on your Qualcomm. - X
 

theoldprof

Veteran Expediter
Thanks, X1. Years ago I was on the supervision team for a short time. One of the old time foremen told me the golden rule of supervision is "Cover thy a--". Your advice sounds good to me. :+ :+
 

ATeam

Senior Member
Retired Expediter
redytrk's answer is right on the money. Our carrier is in the Eastern time zone and all our clocks are set the same. That makes it easy to decide when to pick up and deliver. It also creates amusing situations the further West you are.

Right now, we're laid over in Denver (Mountain time). It's not likely that we'll get a load before tomorrow noon here. I set up an 8:00 AM appointment to meet with some business friends I have here. Then, I remembered the time difference. OOPS! 8:00 AM to us is 6:00 AM to them. Our morning will be half gone when theirs just starts. They'll be just waking up as they drag themselves to their office coffee pots. We'll be thinking about lunch.

If we spend several days in the West, it will be a bit of a pain re-adjusting to Eastern time when we start running in the Eastern freight lanes again.

If you like jet lag, expediting is for you! You get lots of it and you don't even have to buy a plane ticket!
 
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