Bad Day / Good Day QUALCOMM

The QC rules our life when we are out here on the road and we have grown accustomed to the exigencies that are thrust upon us by the obnoxious BEEP. When you hear the beep your first thought is it a fleet message? a safety message or just maybe a load?

This year the beep has more often not been a load which is very disappointing after you have sat very long. When there is load offer on the QC you can go from agony to giddy in 1/2 a second. First item on the QC is date of pickup and delivery and if they are a few days apart you start thinking awesome long load. Next is pickup city and state and delivery city and state and that can get your heart racing when the load is going to a place you enjoy driving. Next is miles and pay and that is the crucial part of the message. If the load pays well there is no decision we reply with yes we want it, if the load is mediocre we have to discuss and that is where the delivery city and state comes into play how bad do you really want to go there? If the load pay is bad the reply is a no and then on comment lines will be how much we can run the load for. Sometimes we get what we want by more often we do not.

When you get out of the truck you put yourself on the phone meaning if a load comes to the truck the message is redirected to your phone and you can listen to the details and then respond appropriately. Before we go to bed we put ourselves on the phone so the message will wake us up and first thing in the morning I put us back on the QC as it is much easier to read a screen then listen to a message.

The QC been can take you from being totally down in the dumps to ecstatic in about 2 minutes if you get the load you want. You can be bickering and picking at each other out of boredom to being the best of friend once again by that darn beep. In your dreams you will hear the beep and get up to look even knowing the darn thing is asleep.

When talking to guys at our company before the QC and having to stop and use the payphone and sit inside and wait for the payphone to ring we will take the QC any day of the week. It is nice when you can go home and take the collar off that the QC tethers you to the truck with.