UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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The free period is 11/10-12/31. You are right in that the days you work during that period do not count toward qualifying; however, if you are retained after 12/31, the days you worked before 11/10 will count.
Tell your loader to put all your air in the 1000 section no matter what the PAL says. Some are listed RDR/RDL with bulk. Don't get nasty with him but be firm. Those guys get pushed hard to but just because their having a bad day doesn't mean you need to have one. I had a bulk stop of 70 packages and told my loader "I don't care where you put the packages just have my air in 1K." He gave me a nod. I ended up having a late air because this put a NDA letter on the center floor with 50 packages on top of it !! @#$%ing idiot.
If you are on PAS/EDD use Find BC to make sure the air is in the DIAD before the commit time. As long as you scan it before the commit time and don't prerecord the stop it will not show late.
the OP--there has been a lot of good advice given. You will have a month or so of training before Peak begins. Use this time to your advantage.
I wouldn't be scanning any packages and holding them in a signature mode unless your at the actual stop....this is a no no. There have been folks fired for this and in almost every case its a customer who has tipped off UPS about an issue, not actual company technology.
How's that glass house?
All i ask is for the loader to put all the air in the same section. Are you insinuating that's too much to ask for? I could careless where everything else goes but i do not want late air. Again i know these guys work hard but if he can't manage to do that then he doesn't deserve to work there.
Tell your loader to put all your air in the 1000 section no matter what the PAL says.
Thats a great poin but I am a cover for these drivers so i really don't want to step on other drives toes. If that driver wants his letters bulked with packages then so be it but i know i don't. This guys route has a bulk stop that has air everyday. I drop off min 25-30 packages and at least 4-7 NDA's to this specific company and the air is labeled RDR and gets mixed in. I don't understand why he would want that but like i said it isn't my route so im not going over his head.Can't you tell the PAS person to PAL all your airs to 1000?
It sounds as though you may be better off having him not load any NDA at all so that you can verify each package and load them where you want them.
I think that most air is automatically pal'd to 1000. I've seen it pal'd to 2000 and sometimes to 3000. I think that is based on historical delivery data????Can't you tell the PAS person to PAL all your airs to 1000?
There used to be a time when no air was loaded. There are days when I wish they would go back to doing that.It sounds as though you may be better off having him not load any NDA at all so that you can verify each package and load them where you want them.
Thats a great poin but I am a cover for these drivers so i really don't want to step on other drives toes. If that driver wants his letters bulked with packages then so be it but i know i don't. This guys route has a bulk stop that has air everyday. I drop off min 25-30 packages and at least 4-7 NDA's to this specific company and the air is labeled RDR and gets mixed in. I don't understand why he would want that but like i said it isn't my route so im not going over his head.
I would prefer to have my air loaded with a bulk delivery (RD loaded).Thats a great poin but I am a cover for these drivers so i really don't want to step on other drives toes. If that driver wants his letters bulked with packages then so be it but i know i don't. This guys route has a bulk stop that has air everyday. I drop off min 25-30 packages and at least 4-7 NDA's to this specific company and the air is labeled RDR and gets mixed in. I don't understand why he would want that but like i said it isn't my route so im not going over his head.
Thats a good idea. A lot of the NDAs are letters which we are know make for great hiders. I figure instead of having them hang out on the belt where they might fall under the truck/belt just throw them all in the corner.
I would prefer to have my air loaded with a bulk delivery (RD loaded).