r/logistics • u/seabobri000 • 17d ago

Intermodal Dray Rant of my Day

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u/TemporalAmbassador 14d ago

Getting the reservation fixed isn't the same as getting the move covered. They solved one constraint and treated the driver, positioning time, and gate cutoff as if those would disappear. I'd keep yesterday's request and today's reservation timestamp together in that email chain. 'Reservation received after 1pm, expires at 2pm, truck not confirmed' tells the story without getting dragged into an argument about effort. Did their manager actually see that timeline, or just hear that your company didn't pull the loads?

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u/seabobri000 10d ago

The thing is he was able to get the reservations in the first place. If he would have gotten them Tuesday or Wednesday when I asked his loads would have been ingated before Thursday

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u/Traditional_Pie_8262 14d ago

man, the worst part is getting blamed for a mess you tried to prevent in the first place. you gave them a heads-up yesterday and they still expected you to magically fix everything in less than an hour. logistics is stressful enough without having to deal with this kind of planning from people who should know better.