This is exactly why I work with schedulers. Every time I get a phone call or e-mail, I add to my records -- scheduler's contact info and the type of shop/client. Over time, I've amassed quite a bit of data. The schedulers I work with know I'm a route shopper, and they understand I need to know if I will be assigned that shop.
I'm such a dinosaur, though, that I actually have this info in a "binder" (you youngsters might not even know what that is, LOL), with a page for each MSC, in (yes, believe it or not) alphabetical order.
If I try to work with a scheduler, and get no reply to e-mails, I remove them from my data with a note.
For example, I used to regularly pick up shops from KSS. I no longer do, as the scheduler who was responsive no longer schedules any of the shops I did for them (miss you like crazy, Pete!). The shops are generally over 100 miles from home, and I have to build a route, so a non-responsive scheduler -- well, I just don't have the time to waste.
And I cannot understand why, when a shopper writes in and offers to fill two VERY HARD TO FILL shops 135-170 miles from nowhere, that stay on the job boards for MONTHS at a time, fails to reply. I thought that was their JOB.
But I've been wrong before.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/08/2020 04:37PM by ceasesmith.