UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
We have also been told that we need to be more accurate with our ETA's.
8:00pm rule?
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TooTechie
Geek in Brown
Centers in my area switched from asking ETAs to expecting us to message in if over 9.5. I have yet to send that message and not a
has been given. I message in when I need a meet for pickup pieces and that's about it.Sent from my 28 year old brown truck
realbrown1
Annoy a liberal today. Hit them with facts.
Instead of Estimated Time of Arrival, they pretty much want you to give Actual Time of Arrival?
Sure, and people in hell want ice water. But that's never going to happen either.
oldngray
nowhere special
What sucks is when you send in an optimistic early ETA then start getting held up by delays, and then you get a message you have to go help someone else because you had an early ETA. It doesn't matter if you try to revise that original estimate. And they only pull that on the same drivers they always send to help other people. Even if it is work from other loops miles away from you.
on the same drivers they always send to help other people. Even if it is work from other loops miles away from you.
brownmonster
Man of Great Wisdom
They shouldn't expect anything better then +/- 15 on our ETAs. If it's good enough for pick up customers, it's good enough for drivers.
I would always tell them in the morning if I wasn't gonna make 9.5, at which point I was usually told "you'll be fine". The next day I would get asked why I didn't send a message and I would say because you told me I was gonna be fine, believe me I'm as shocked as you are about how it all turned out.Centers in my area switched from asking ETAs to expecting us to message in if over 9.5. I have yet to send that message and not a
Sent from my 28 year old brown truck
oldngray
nowhere special
You can tell them in the morning and it seldom does any good. They just want to get everyone out of the building hoping that problems will magically go away.
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
Only a rookie would give an early eta.What sucks is when you send in an optimistic early ETA then start getting held up by delays, and then you get a message you have to go help someone else because you had an early ETA. It doesn't matter if you try to revise that original estimate. And they only pull that
oldngray
nowhere special
Drivers quickly learn to be pessimistic about ETA, adding extra time to account for a worst case scenario.
TooTechie
Geek in Brown
I always added 45 minutes when we used to have to give ETAs to allow for issues and to discourage them from beating me like a rented mule everyday.
kingOFchester
Well-Known Member
Jut send this message about 9.5
"May be over 9.5"
"May be over 9.5"
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
My last pickup is 5 minutes from the bldg----hard for me to pad my ETA.
Resident know-it-all.
Resident know-it-all.
jumpman23
Oh Yeah
A smart driver with an alternate plan of super stickin it up their
to get mad ot instead of getting help just to be a peckerhead and prove a point to these nuttz would do something like giving an early eta also, just saying, all about strategy homeboy lol.
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
WUT?A smart driver with an alternate plan of super stickin it up their
BakerMayfield2018
Fight the power.
Wut he is saying is , for example you have pick ups till 6 and will have 20 stops left after pick ups and a 30 minute drive back to center , eta you give is 7 which is way early for work remaining , then they have a driver in your loop who has a 9 pm eta so they tell you to go take 10 stops off him , so then you come back to building at 9 45 pm and " stick it up there ass".
jumpman23
Oh Yeah
I guess so lmfao
