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<blockquote data-quote="TooTechie" data-source="post: 1513065" data-attributes="member: 28388"><p>Until you go on road with a driver and see how badly you've messed up their day you won't get it. You say you're planning the drivers at the best day possible...by what measurement/whose standards? </p><p></p><p>Until you go full time driving for at least 6 months you won't get it. You make add/cuts which suck in and of themselves but there could be business(es) mixed in that completely screws the driver you're giving it to as well as the business who counts on getting time sensitive things daily in a certain time frame or closes early and you've PAL'd it into 8999 so a driver who doesn't usually get it finds it at 6:30 and has to decide if they're going to sheet it as missed and deal with the BS the next day or falsify it as a residence/NI and roll the dice on losing his job for dishonesty.</p><p></p><p>You can't just grab a chunk of stops and move it because on a computer screen it looks like it will make sense. You have to know exactly what you're moving and how it will affect the two drivers involved and their customers. If you're going to need to level off routes use the same sections and swing them between the same drivers so you don't have guys out in the dark trying to deliver other people's work.</p><p></p><p>The measure of a good PDS is not hitting SPC or running the least amount of cars possible. Your goal should be to leave the routes alone as much as possible and to learn as much about each route and driver as you can. If you have someone who is hammered one day then find a way to put in a level route. Don't add/cut 20 stops to the next guy then cut 20 of their stops to the next route and so on and so forth. Keep the ripples down.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TooTechie, post: 1513065, member: 28388"] Until you go on road with a driver and see how badly you've messed up their day you won't get it. You say you're planning the drivers at the best day possible...by what measurement/whose standards? Until you go full time driving for at least 6 months you won't get it. You make add/cuts which suck in and of themselves but there could be business(es) mixed in that completely screws the driver you're giving it to as well as the business who counts on getting time sensitive things daily in a certain time frame or closes early and you've PAL'd it into 8999 so a driver who doesn't usually get it finds it at 6:30 and has to decide if they're going to sheet it as missed and deal with the BS the next day or falsify it as a residence/NI and roll the dice on losing his job for dishonesty. You can't just grab a chunk of stops and move it because on a computer screen it looks like it will make sense. You have to know exactly what you're moving and how it will affect the two drivers involved and their customers. If you're going to need to level off routes use the same sections and swing them between the same drivers so you don't have guys out in the dark trying to deliver other people's work. The measure of a good PDS is not hitting SPC or running the least amount of cars possible. Your goal should be to leave the routes alone as much as possible and to learn as much about each route and driver as you can. If you have someone who is hammered one day then find a way to put in a level route. Don't add/cut 20 stops to the next guy then cut 20 of their stops to the next route and so on and so forth. Keep the ripples down. [/QUOTE]
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