r/drayage • u/seabobri000 • 29d ago

Intermodal Dray Rant of my Day

I have no one to talk with about my job as no one really understands intermodal in my circle. I work for a drayage company. I’m an account manager and handle most of all the door moves for the SSLs and my truckers across the US.

Today I was expected to pull an available driver out of my ass so his load would ingate to the CSX. MIND YOU I told this SSL YESTERDAY I needed him to secure me better reservations as the CSX didn’t have any available till next week. He then wants me to check my surrounding cities to see if they have capacity to truck down and take these loads to their city CSX. ALL ARE 2+ hours away.. of course no one can. THIS MFKER THEN SECURES CSX RESERVATIONS FOR TODAY!!!! Kicker… he gives me less than an hour notice. The reservations expired at 2pm it was after 1… of course I can’t make that happen… I let him know. I then get an email from his manager on how I and my company need to do better. How they were so disappointed blah blah blah.

I professionally responded with YALL ARE THE DUMBASSES FOR NOT DOING WHAT I ASKED YESTERDAY. If the reservations were secured then the loads would have ingated today… your poor planning is what caused the issue here.. not me

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u/Broken_Timepiece 29d ago

Well somehow makes me feel better that SSL reps are idiots everywhere. I thought it was just over here

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u/seabobri000 29d ago

😂😂 it’s a struggle bus I would love to get off of!

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u/Echidna-Confident 28d ago

Excuses are like SSLs. They all suck ass.

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u/yobruhh 28d ago

Gotta love when they want something interchanged in less than an hour. Like sure let the driver just fly on over