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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 971749" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>The entire idea behind satellite centers was to save mileage. In our building, mileage for the loop as a whole actually <em>increased</em> when the satellite centers were imposed upon us by the morons from IE. To the maroon in his cubicle, a satellite center means not paying 2 drivers to drive the entire distance from the building to the delivery area. Its a great theory from within a cubicle. In the<em> real </em>world however, the mileage is <em>not</em> saved<em>....</em> it is merely <em>transferred </em>to <em>others</em> in that loop who must pull the pup trailer to and from the building or make service on the NDA that would otherwise be delivered by the driver who has the trailer and must drop it off before doing anything else. And if the satellite drivers themselves are overdispatched, they must return to the pup trailer in time to offload their pickup volume so that it can make it back to the center, and then go back out to complete their deliveries. Throw an 8 hr gurantee for any one of the involved drivers into the mix, and the logistical hurdles get even bigger. When you factor in the expense of renting a location, shuttling the cars back to the building for maintainence, equipping cars with trailer hitches, maintaining the pup trailer etc. etc....the satellite centers are a money wasting joke in many cases. Someone from IE with too much authority and not enough common sense had himself a bright idea and wrote a memo, and we have been saddled with the consequences ever since.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 971749, member: 14668"] The entire idea behind satellite centers was to save mileage. In our building, mileage for the loop as a whole actually [I]increased[/I] when the satellite centers were imposed upon us by the morons from IE. To the maroon in his cubicle, a satellite center means not paying 2 drivers to drive the entire distance from the building to the delivery area. Its a great theory from within a cubicle. In the[I] real [/I]world however, the mileage is [I]not[/I] saved[I]....[/I] it is merely [I]transferred [/I]to [I]others[/I] in that loop who must pull the pup trailer to and from the building or make service on the NDA that would otherwise be delivered by the driver who has the trailer and must drop it off before doing anything else. And if the satellite drivers themselves are overdispatched, they must return to the pup trailer in time to offload their pickup volume so that it can make it back to the center, and then go back out to complete their deliveries. Throw an 8 hr gurantee for any one of the involved drivers into the mix, and the logistical hurdles get even bigger. When you factor in the expense of renting a location, shuttling the cars back to the building for maintainence, equipping cars with trailer hitches, maintaining the pup trailer etc. etc....the satellite centers are a money wasting joke in many cases. Someone from IE with too much authority and not enough common sense had himself a bright idea and wrote a memo, and we have been saddled with the consequences ever since. [/QUOTE]
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