Unbelievable. Are you serious? You knew when your call block was, plan for it.
You need to have a face to face with your dispatcher. If he can't wait until you get to work to bid, then possibly give him a 3 AM call back and tell him what you want to bid on. That usually gets the point across. TP
How are you suppose to plan for it when you don't get home from work until 10am and receive a call a few hours later?? :Poke:
With the new bidding procedure we have if we do not call in on our call block they will pass over you and go to a junior person and you lose your spot....
You need to have a face to face with your dispatcher. If he can't wait until you get to work to bid, then possibly give him a 3 AM call back and tell him what you want to bid on. That usually gets the point across. TP
They got it setup so we can't call after our 15 minute call block, if we do, we will be skipped in the bidding process. I just can't believe that they also are requiring daytime road drivers to call in the middle of their work day either. What if they don't own a cell phone and cant get to a payphone?
you are supposed to have 10 hours of uninterupted time off duty.if it was work related you should of been able to stay off for another 10 hours if you wanted to push the issue.I have done it before.
I gotta admit I wasn't to happy about getting up in the middle of my rest to make the bid call either....but no big deal really.
Then after I found out I won a decent schedule run I laid back down and slept like a baby!
I was wondering if when we call in to bid on our schedueled bid slot,if that is considered on duty not driving? I was forced to call in for my bid in the middle of my sleep and had to come to work dead tired.