I think they are great! Their stupidity + time and a half after 8 = a fatter wallet in my pocket. Dispatchers and weatherman, the only profession where you can screw up every day and still keep your job.
Of course I know, I work in an "at will" state, but that's not going to stop me from bringing my best game every work day.
No one is denying a man's right to organize,support, or join a union, but for employees who do not want to unionize, it's also their right to fight for the status quo.
Good dispatchers like drivers are hard to find...It always easy to be a backseat dispatcher...To be critical and question their moves....Most couldn't last a minute in the hot seat....Try sitting in the hot seat with 5-10 drivers or more short....Vacations ....Sick....Jury duty....Injury.. Breakdowns...Plus usually dispatchers are always under staffed anyway...... Everyday the lines stay lit up and customers holding....Drivers rambling why they can't do something...The TM breathing down your neck....Salesman wanting to know where that hot shipment is...Customers complaining that their drivers where rude...Drivers riding the clock even after we tell them to call us with delays....(waiting on a door..ie) These are just a few things dispatchers deal with everyday...It's so easy to call them stupid YRC....The fact is most couldn't last a minute in a big terminal with 60+ P&D drivers...You must be a multi-tasker big time with a great system in place....I worked with two other dispatchers and even then we struggled at times....It's always so easy to second guess...Driving is a walk in the park compared to dispatch....That's why I drive today.....But stupid is not what a good dispatcher is...It's quite the opposite
Ya its a walk in the park , you live in Dallas correct? not much snow in that part of the country not to mention you can go to prison for manslaughter if you accidentally kill someone ,plus all the hoops you have to jump through to have a cdl anymore.
That's not on the dispatcher...That's on you.....If its unsafe our dispatchers say don't do it....If your stupid enough to do it anyway....that's not his fault....Look my point is this....Try not to call a man stupid until you walk a mile in his shoes.....Dispatchers have mouths to feed too....And surely no matter which side of the fence your on (union) you want your terminal to make money (stops per hour..ie) and the dispatcher plays a big part in that.....I would like to think you would work with him....Not against him....After all you both work for the same company...... REGARDLESS of any differences.
My dispatcher as a friend is great, as a dispatcher no so good. If he had to pay the fuel bill on wasted miles he would owe them a ton of money....
And I get to socialize with my fellow drivers who are also at the same stop. Or next door.
That happens everywhere....You have to saturate certain areas to some degree...You never know when a guy will fill up with unexpected added shipments...You have to mindful of getting caught with your pants down.
