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Post by booger on Feb 10, 2010 18:52:53 GMT -5
Several years ago after a major management change, our new boss envisioned a central dispatch center handling 7 or eight plants. Some of the office staff convinced our young new boss that they could handle the dispatching duties. Talk about power hungry bit-hes! They knew nothing about Ready Mix, Heavy Trucks, Construction etc. All they knew is they wanted to be in charge, boss truck drivers around and write them up. After a month or two the boy wonder boss man decided thing weren't going too well and maybe the babes in charge needed to see the real world where they were sending trucks. Well, yours truly was selected to be the driver squiring these gals around since I had a passenger seat in my new Sterling. The First load was a 10 yder on a really bad stretch of road with some bad hills and curves. Normally I drive pretty slow but I can turn it up a notch or two when I want to. That last hill before we got to the job was a real doozy, steep, long and a real ugly curve at the bottom. All the way down I kept mumbling about "too heavy and hot brakes" and I could see she her eyes were about a big as the bottom of a beer bottle and she was looking for something to hang on to. After that she was a lot more respectful on the radio and if a driver suggested something, she was open to suggestion. Unfortunately, about two weeks later, she fu-ked up and sent the wrong cement to one of the scab plants while they were in the middle of a big pour. We didn't see much of her after that.
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Post by codsucks on Feb 10, 2010 18:57:34 GMT -5
Hey I work at a place like that how come batch man suck ass have that much power and is not in management.
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gant
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Post by gant on Feb 18, 2010 11:31:49 GMT -5
Hey booger you sure you don't work with me? We have a central dispatch and it's a joke
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Post by booger on Feb 18, 2010 17:24:28 GMT -5
Hey booger you sure you don't work with me? We have a central dispatch and it's a joke It was the way they had it set up. Nobody knew anything and they all wanted to be was the final authority. We'd have trucks in Villa Ridge finishing up a foundation and then Pacific would need more trucks to finish a street job and they'd send empties from Washington instead of sending the trucks from the foundation on to Pacific. What you'd end up with is two sets of empty trucks on free rides meeting each other. And if you'd try to suggest something logical they would cop a fu.kin attitude and swear you were trying to get out of something. I don't say it's a mans' world but if your going in dispatch you really need to know what's going on. I've filled in there from time to time when the regular dispatcher went on vacation and on Saturdays and I can tell for a fact, if you don't have your $hit together, you can have the whole world pissed at you, namely customers, drivers, and the company and that's just with one phuck-up. BTW speaking of your central dispatch. How is ol Charlie Boehmer? I knew him when he was just simple mixer driver. He started dispatching with us in the late 80s. |
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