No -- what is dishonest is some rookie skipping his lunch, driving like a bat outa hell and bringing back a truck load of send agains -----then having your sup or center manager jump down your throat because so and so ran your route and was way under allowed.
Unfortunately UPS has created an environment where you HAVE to protect your own butt and if having your own little secrets to your route helps-then so be it. It's too bad but that is the way it is.
Respectfully I have to disagree with you. If you are going to withhold information about your route on purpose just to make your numbers look better when compared to a cover driver, well that's just wrong.
No matter how good EDD trace is the bid driver should be able to smoke a cover driver on the bid route. Right?
As a cover driver do I ever skip a lunch? Well I don't skip them but I might take them pretty late sometimes if I am on a route I am not so familier with. But I am not being "dishonest" by doing so, it's simply that I am going to be running slower than the regular driver becuase I am still learning what door to go to etc etc. It's certianly not becuase I want to show up the bid driver. And please do not start with the "company brown nose" thing. I am not sucking up to management, I am sucking up to customers.
And I don't drive like a bat outa hell no matter what, missed packages be damned!
The more infomation I have to run the route correctly, including correct trace in EDD, will allow me to learn a route quicker and take my lunch at lunchtime!
Why would I want to show up the bid driver? It's not like I can get a raise for doing a better job.