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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 855904" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>The service itself is simply another hoop for the driver to jump through.</p><p></p><p>I dont mind jumping through some hoops for $45 an hour on OT. But practically speaking, there is a limit to the number of different hoops that it is physically possible for me to make it through.</p><p></p><p>NDA and 2Day premium <em>must</em> be delivered by 10:30. NDA savers to businesses <em>must</em> be delivered by 3:00. All businesses <em>must</em> be delivered before 5:00, but <em>not</em> between 12:00 and 1:00 <em>unless</em> their posted hours are different, in which case the attempt <em>must</em> be made outside of whatever window of time they choose to take lunch in. My pickup route <em>must</em> be started at 2:50 and all 32 pickups completed by 4:30 when we meet the air shuttle that takes our outbound NDA and international volume to the airport.</p><p></p><p>You know what? I can handle all of that. I work hard, I'm good at what I do, and most of the time I can find a way to keep all of those plates in the air during the 10.5 hr juggling act of a delivery route. But when you throw in additional,<em> self-imposed </em>hoops such as "running 85% according to trace", "pickup compliance within 15 minutes", and "maintaining demonstrated SPORH"....while at the <em>same</em> time trying to meet an impossible corporate mandate for Stops Per Car....at some point <strong>something is going to have to give. </strong>A new service such as the one described in the OP sounds like a great idea in the abstract, but there is a limit to the number of hoops we can jump through and plates we can keep in the air at the same time and in most cases we are already at or beyond that limit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 855904, member: 14668"] The service itself is simply another hoop for the driver to jump through. I dont mind jumping through some hoops for $45 an hour on OT. But practically speaking, there is a limit to the number of different hoops that it is physically possible for me to make it through. NDA and 2Day premium [I]must[/I] be delivered by 10:30. NDA savers to businesses [I]must[/I] be delivered by 3:00. All businesses [I]must[/I] be delivered before 5:00, but [I]not[/I] between 12:00 and 1:00 [I]unless[/I] their posted hours are different, in which case the attempt [I]must[/I] be made outside of whatever window of time they choose to take lunch in. My pickup route [I]must[/I] be started at 2:50 and all 32 pickups completed by 4:30 when we meet the air shuttle that takes our outbound NDA and international volume to the airport. You know what? I can handle all of that. I work hard, I'm good at what I do, and most of the time I can find a way to keep all of those plates in the air during the 10.5 hr juggling act of a delivery route. But when you throw in additional,[I] self-imposed [/I]hoops such as "running 85% according to trace", "pickup compliance within 15 minutes", and "maintaining demonstrated SPORH"....while at the [I]same[/I] time trying to meet an impossible corporate mandate for Stops Per Car....at some point [B]something is going to have to give. [/B]A new service such as the one described in the OP sounds like a great idea in the abstract, but there is a limit to the number of hoops we can jump through and plates we can keep in the air at the same time and in most cases we are already at or beyond that limit. [/QUOTE]
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