Day in the Life: OTR, Dispatch & the Road at Bulk

A day in the life at Bulk Transit sounds straightforward until four people who live it start talking. In Episode 9 of Always Pneumatic, Never Static, host Marcus sits down with OTR driver Mike Upchurch, regional driver Bryan Alexander, office manager Lu Ann Saunders, and dispatcher Sara Litzinger from the Foster, Kentucky, terminal for a conversation that covers both sides of the aisle. What does a typical day look like for an OTR driver out on the road versus a regional driver staying closer to home? What does dispatch deal with that drivers never see? What does operations manage that nobody talks about? This episode answers all of it and then some. The conversation stays grounded and informative throughout, but make no mistake, there are stories from the yard and the road in here that will genuinely stop you in your tracks. Animal strikes, bird strikes, and the kind of moments that remind you this job never goes exactly according to plan. But here is what every single one of these four employees kept coming back to: communication is everything. Tune in and find out why. New episodes every Wednesday.