In the days before nextel's & cell phones,when Thomsens & Elbas & Titans roamed the plains. We'd had just TOO much of our dispatcher and decided to have a little fun! With the old radios that bounced signals off mountain relay site's we could go to chanel 3 and talk truck to truck w/out the dispactcher hear'n a word. We called this "Charly in the dark". One slower fall day, 4 or 5 pumps went out to cover 8 or 9 jobs, a few of us copied all the address's for the day then went to "code 3" truck to truck and dispatched ourselves. I was one of the first to return to the yard around 2:00 to see a dust cloud and our dispatcher ripp'n out a the yard with his longest finger raised high in the sky. Charly in the dark! being the linepumper I cought the brunt of his wrath the following days but is was so worth it !!                      pumpon!  

when you are the only 61, you call the shots within reason of course.

I would never mess with the dispatcher. They can sit your butt at home or they can make your bills. If they want you to run a line pump in the afternoon you do it.