Who has enough hours by Saturday?
I have already made the decision for myself that, next week, I will start strategically rolling stops each day in order to maximize the effectiveness of the 60 hours that I have available. My total number of missed stops will be less in one week if I work five 12-hour days than if I work four 13-hour days and am limited to 8 hours by Friday.
I have customers with long driveways or who live at the end of long dead-end roads that are daily Amazon Prime or Surepost customers. If they only have one package and it is ground, I will roll it until the following day when they are almost guranteed to get another one and in many cases save several minutes per day by doing so. A few minutes here and there throughout the day can add up to hours pretty quickly.
Its not my preference to do business this way but there really is no other choice. We are screwed here. There isnt any help, its only going to get worse, and our peak season "plan" is such an abysmal failure that the time has come to start performing triage on the stops in order to minimize the damage. There is nothing more frustrating and demoralizing to me than having to do what I did last night; driving right past houses that I had packages for on my way back to the building because I was on fumes for DOT hours.
I will continue to punch out at 1815-1830 Monday through Friday.
well arent u speshel
I have already made the decision for myself that, next week, I will start strategically rolling stops each day in order to maximize the effectiveness of the 60 hours that I have available. My total number of missed stops will be less in one week if I work five 12-hour days than if I work four 13-hour days and am limited to 8 hours by Friday.
I have customers with long driveways or who live at the end of long dead-end roads that are daily Amazon Prime or Surepost customers. If they only have one package and it is ground, I will roll it until the following day when they are almost guranteed to get another one and in many cases save several minutes per day by doing so. A few minutes here and there throughout the day can add up to hours pretty quickly.
Its not my preference to do business this way but there really is no other choice. We are screwed here. There isnt any help, its only going to get worse, and our peak season "plan" is such an abysmal failure that the time has come to start performing triage on the stops in order to minimize the damage. There is nothing more frustrating and demoralizing to me than having to do what I did last night; driving right past houses that I had packages for on my way back to the building because I was on fumes for DOT hours.
I will continue to punch out at 1815-1830 Monday through Friday.
I am going to continue to work Monday through Friday, deliver in trace and let the chips fall where they may.
We have no ownership in any of these problems.
Under normal circumstances, I would agree with you.
Unfortunately, if nothing changes and the undelivered packages start snowballing, I will wind up having ownership of this problem.... when I report to work at 8:00 AM on Christmas Eve and am confronted with 15 or 16 hours worth of stops forced into my car.
I dont really want to be faced with that. I dont want to be out delivering packages at 10:00 at night on Christmas Eve. So I am going to be as proactive as I can possibly be at preventing that from occuring.