Customary peak thread

[outtatime]

Perhaps they feel the same about you.

We are mandated to put a minimum number of stops in to our helper DIADs.

Well we're not talking about DIAD's here, are we?

 

[Cactus]

Well we're not talking about DIAD's here, are we?

Heck no.

There's a disturbance in our force Luke.

 

[dex 84]

It would be easier if you got a second powerpad for your runner. If they have to get a sig you can't deliver while they're in the stop. Unless you just code up some packages ahead of time and drop them off. I don't get a runner anyways...

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

It would be easier if you got a second powerpad for your runner. If they have to get a sig you can't deliver while they're in the stop. Unless you just code up some packages ahead of time and drop them off. I don't get a runner anyways...

You don't use two Powerpads?

 

[dex 84]

You don't use two Powerpads?

We wouldn't have enough and you can't sign two onto one route anyways.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

All of our helpers get their own DIAD. They are usually the prior version so it does take a few minutes to get back up to speed on how to use it.

 

[Operational needs]

You don't use two Powerpads?

We don't have enough working equipment as it is.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

We don't have enough working equipment as it is.

Then why have helpers/jumpers?

 

[dex 84]

Then why have helpers/jumpers?

The main reason why it helps is that they can do most of the doc sort and all of the offloading/splitting so we can have nearly every driver at their truck during the sort.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

The main reason why it helps is that they can do most of the doc sort and all of the offloading/splitting so we can have nearly every driver at their truck during the sort.

So they work in the station before going on road?

 

[dex 84]

So they work in the station before going on road?

Yeah it's all hands on deck during the sort.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Yeah it's all hands on deck during the sort.

We meet our helpers on road and drop them off after we are done with them.

 

[Coldworld]

All of our helpers get their own DIAD. They are usually the prior version so it does take a few minutes to get back up to speed on how to use it.

lol...really I will use both of the diads unless I have the helper run into a business in which I will have it all ready for them..by the time the helper has the diad down peak is over. I dont want them tripping on the way back to the truck trying to figure the diad out...or they are walking at an old mans pace...not worth it. Put 50 stops into the board then throw it in the back of the truck

 

[Operational needs]

So they work in the station before going on road?

They usually unload the truck and scan the inbound freight so the couriers can stay at their trucks.

 

[dex 84]

We meet our helpers on road and drop them off at the same liquor store we picked them up from after we are done with them.

That seems like more trouble then it's worth...

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

lol...really I will use both of the diads unless I have the helper run into a business in which I will have it all ready for them..by the time the helper has the diad down peak is over. I dont want them tripping on the way back to the truck trying to figure the diad out...or they are walking at an old mans pace...not worth it. Put 50 stops into the board then throw it in the back of the truck

It takes me less than a week to get my helper fully up to speed on the DIAD.

 

[Operational needs]

Then why have helpers/jumpers?

The one day I had a helper, we definitely finished earlier than if I had been doing it by myself.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

That seems like more trouble then it's worth...

It's no trouble at all. Mine meets me at a bulk pickup stop in the morning and I drop him off after we have closed out that stop that night.

 

[dex 84]

It's no trouble at all. Mine meets me at a bulk pickup stop in the morning and I drop him off after we have closed out that stop that night.

You have room in your truck to do a bulk pickup in the morning? And time for that?

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

You have room in your truck to do a bulk pickup in the morning? And time for that?

No. He parks at a bulk pickup stop so that his car will be there when I drop him off.