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<blockquote data-quote="scratch" data-source="post: 109765" data-attributes="member: 1674"><p>I have got about thirty one years in now, BTDT, and this is from personal first hand experience. My first route in the early eighties was a Industrial Park delivered out of an old Ford "city van" that had a tilt cab and air brakes. I would go out and deliver 400 and pickup 600 pkgs a day. I always would blow out by 5PM, I had to skip my late closings and usually had several other drivers cover those. My first time study, a former center manager in IE did it. He held the stop watch on me all day and wrote everything down on his clipboard. A few days later, he rides with me again, saying his numbers didn't add up right. This time, I took no lunch, didn't even stop to go to the bathroom all day. (I was young and stupid back then, thought the time study would have some work taken off me). Anyway, the IE guy comes back and agrees that I had way too much work on me and told that to my center manager. Did anything change? Of course not, except for the two hernias I got. That same center manager took an early retirement back when the stock went public. Rumor was he got caught in an audit using "creative record keeping" techniques to make his numbers better than they were.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scratch, post: 109765, member: 1674"] I have got about thirty one years in now, BTDT, and this is from personal first hand experience. My first route in the early eighties was a Industrial Park delivered out of an old Ford "city van" that had a tilt cab and air brakes. I would go out and deliver 400 and pickup 600 pkgs a day. I always would blow out by 5PM, I had to skip my late closings and usually had several other drivers cover those. My first time study, a former center manager in IE did it. He held the stop watch on me all day and wrote everything down on his clipboard. A few days later, he rides with me again, saying his numbers didn't add up right. This time, I took no lunch, didn't even stop to go to the bathroom all day. (I was young and stupid back then, thought the time study would have some work taken off me). Anyway, the IE guy comes back and agrees that I had way too much work on me and told that to my center manager. Did anything change? Of course not, except for the two hernias I got. That same center manager took an early retirement back when the stock went public. Rumor was he got caught in an audit using "creative record keeping" techniques to make his numbers better than they were. [/QUOTE]
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