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V_RocKs · 11-09-2004, 03:27 PM

If you ever get free time and have a quality scanner, sit outside LAX for about 20 minutes (In-N-Out is just outside LAX and makes a nice place to do this from while consuming a double-double). You will here the ground dispatcher never stop talking for the entire 20 minutes. There will never be a pause. That is how busy LAX is. There are 2 ground dispatchers. One for each side. There are also 2 air dispatchers. One for each side.

I've dispatched vans into the airport and out of it for transportation companies. The only time it has stress is Thanksgiving and Christmas and Mother's Day (everyone goes to see mom or she comes to see you on this day).

On Thanksgiving and Christmas it is busy for 3 or 4 days into and out of the holidays and Christmas goes into New Years because of the Rose Parade and College Football at the Rose Bowl. It is so busy that you must put 9 people to 9 different places on one van. If it drops off 2 in Diamond Bar and 2 in Upland it picks up 4 in Ontario Airport as it passes by. Then drops off the 9 people and picks up 9 more, dropping 4 off in Ontario and then grabbing 4 more on the rest of the way to LAX.

Do that and multiply it by 60 vans you are in charge of. Then make it a 10 hour shift and it never stops. People never stop talking and needing help finding a customer or needing a call out at an apartment complex. A driver doesn't get his page for a pickup and you need to scramble a van and put the customer on the luggage in the back and they do it because it is Christmas and there are no other ways to get to the airport on time. They might even do it and tip the driver for 'saving the day' for them.

I can't imagine doing that job 365 days a year like that. LAX dispatchers do that job 40 hours + a week. The only thing that made it bareable for me is that you can smoke and drink on those periods. Anything you want, just make fucking money and fill the vans. Plus the owner walks up each time you have an hour where ALL 60 vans went to or from an airport with total capacity. For me that was about $500 a day bonus.

Now... why did we pay $150,000 for an airport tower that looks like something out of star wars? Looking at it you can imagine those black short beings that steal droids popping up and shooting at you.

11-09-2004, 03:27 PM
V_RocKs Damn Right I Kiss Ass! Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Cowtown, USA Posts: 32,422	If you ever get free time and have a quality scanner, sit outside LAX for about 20 minutes (In-N-Out is just outside LAX and makes a nice place to do this from while consuming a double-double). You will here the ground dispatcher never stop talking for the entire 20 minutes. There will never be a pause. That is how busy LAX is. There are 2 ground dispatchers. One for each side. There are also 2 air dispatchers. One for each side. I've dispatched vans into the airport and out of it for transportation companies. The only time it has stress is Thanksgiving and Christmas and Mother's Day (everyone goes to see mom or she comes to see you on this day). On Thanksgiving and Christmas it is busy for 3 or 4 days into and out of the holidays and Christmas goes into New Years because of the Rose Parade and College Football at the Rose Bowl. It is so busy that you must put 9 people to 9 different places on one van. If it drops off 2 in Diamond Bar and 2 in Upland it picks up 4 in Ontario Airport as it passes by. Then drops off the 9 people and picks up 9 more, dropping 4 off in Ontario and then grabbing 4 more on the rest of the way to LAX. Do that and multiply it by 60 vans you are in charge of. Then make it a 10 hour shift and it never stops. People never stop talking and needing help finding a customer or needing a call out at an apartment complex. A driver doesn't get his page for a pickup and you need to scramble a van and put the customer on the luggage in the back and they do it because it is Christmas and there are no other ways to get to the airport on time. They might even do it and tip the driver for 'saving the day' for them. I can't imagine doing that job 365 days a year like that. LAX dispatchers do that job 40 hours + a week. The only thing that made it bareable for me is that you can smoke and drink on those periods. Anything you want, just make fucking money and fill the vans. Plus the owner walks up each time you have an hour where ALL 60 vans went to or from an airport with total capacity. For me that was about $500 a day bonus. Now... why did we pay $150,000 for an airport tower that looks like something out of star wars? Looking at it you can imagine those black short beings that steal droids popping up and shooting at you.