Best way to handle dispatchers?

725145

{"replyTo":"","text":"Thanks guys.  Let's say dispatcher tells you to do something but you know it's going to be risky as your clock is getting low.  Do you have right to refuse?  Can they force you?","replyToPid":0}

542330

{"replyTo":"","text":"If it’s cutting it to close then you tell them that and you don’t feel safe. As a company driver it’s forced dispatch but there are ways to get around it. You can always tell them you are to tired it’s been a stressful day. You are going to go park for the night. ","replyToPid":0}

686228

{"replyTo":"","text":"communicate professionally. build report w them. remember they control your load selection usually. I always get the address and send pizza. $25 in pizza goes a LONG way. there will always be a hardass trucker who hates dispatchers for them to vent on. be the bigger man. always communicate through email and Qualcomm so you have a written record of illegal requests. good luck","replyToPid":0}

531922

{"replyTo":"","text":"A bad dispatcher means a bad company I would switch to a company that treats you with respect","replyToPid":0}

727569

{"replyTo":"","text":"Iceman style.","replyToPid":0}

711455

{"replyTo":"","text":"Reading all the comments reminded me of why I work for a small carrier,  And deal only with 2 people who actually know me by name and face with mutual respect. 😎","replyToPid":0}

702482

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725145 发表于 2019-06-18 01:47:53 Thanks guys.  Let's say dispatcher tells you to do something but you know it's going to be risky as your clock is getting low.  Do you have right to refuse?  Can they force you?

","text":"nope. they can tell you anything they want to. but remember that 1 thing. if you run illegal who will be the person going to prison? sure won't be your dispatcher. run legal. If the Dispatcher wants you to do something illegal tell them to send it on the Qualcomm or in a email to you. Not a text.","replyToPid":123700}

732214

{"replyTo":"","text":"nooo my boss is very good","replyToPid":0}

157862

{"replyTo":"","text":"Actually, I’d like to hear specifics of the complaint.  Our company has a dispatcher who can be .., difficult, (granted, not abusive) but I’d pull for him any day.  Good loads, good schedule, has next load lined up before you deliver current one.  Other dispatcher, pleasant as Snow White, and inept as a four year old.\nNeither will ask a driver to run illegally, though.  That’s up to the owner.  And he accepts “no” for an answer.\nNot suggesting this is issue here, but have heard drivers complain of dispatchers calling for ETA, for check calls, to ask when the driver will be ready for reload, if they’re empty...   legit calls, as far as I’m concerned.\n\nI tend to agree with the driver who pointed out that this says more about the company.   If the dispatchers feel the need to be jerks, that rather implies (to me) that most of the drivers are... less than stellar themselves.\n\nMy suggestion (assuming this is the case):  stick it out for a year or so, work your butt off, become the best driver you can in that time- then decide if you want to jump ship.\n\nMy son, for instance, put up with a lot of babysitting his first year.  Now, in his second year, the owner considers him one of his top five drivers- and he gets treated that way by everybody in the office ( yeah, some of the other drivers take exception to a kid being treated as he is. Tough.  )\n","replyToPid":0}

706634

{"replyTo":"","text":"If they ALL seem that way to you, maybe it's you.","replyToPid":0}