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Is telematics over supervison?
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<blockquote data-quote="brownIEman" data-source="post: 733724" data-attributes="member: 14596"><p>You are comparing apple and oranges. Or, more accurately, apples with sliced apples. Yes, you do maybe 1.5 to 2x the pickup and delivery, by piece, as a Fedex Express driver. But you do not do twice the work by piece that an Express driver and a ground driver combined do. And that ground driver, being a contractor, is a fixed cost by piece, it is a heck of a deal for them. Since the vast majority of your pieces are ground, I would ask, would you be willing to accept the compensation package of a Fedex Ground driver, if we loaded you up the way they are with the addition of a few air packages?</p><p> </p><p>The business model we all work under is this - UPS pays service providers well above the rest of the industry, and we make it up by bleading every drop of blood we can get from that stone. Unfortunately, often times that equation is uncomfortable for people on both sides of the management line. I know for sure getting after the employees who report to me is not something I have ever been overly comfortable with. But I have spent the past year trying to explain what the results I am expected to achieve for the organization are, and asking my employees for those results in a positive, freindly manner. I have, and continue to provide recognition in the form of pizza or breakfast (out of my own pocket) for hitting milestones on the way to those goals. Guess what I have learned? None of it achieves the results achieved by the management that get, let us say, more intense, and start down the discipline path at the drop of a hat. </p><p> </p><p>I truly wish it were otherwise...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brownIEman, post: 733724, member: 14596"] You are comparing apple and oranges. Or, more accurately, apples with sliced apples. Yes, you do maybe 1.5 to 2x the pickup and delivery, by piece, as a Fedex Express driver. But you do not do twice the work by piece that an Express driver and a ground driver combined do. And that ground driver, being a contractor, is a fixed cost by piece, it is a heck of a deal for them. Since the vast majority of your pieces are ground, I would ask, would you be willing to accept the compensation package of a Fedex Ground driver, if we loaded you up the way they are with the addition of a few air packages? The business model we all work under is this - UPS pays service providers well above the rest of the industry, and we make it up by bleading every drop of blood we can get from that stone. Unfortunately, often times that equation is uncomfortable for people on both sides of the management line. I know for sure getting after the employees who report to me is not something I have ever been overly comfortable with. But I have spent the past year trying to explain what the results I am expected to achieve for the organization are, and asking my employees for those results in a positive, freindly manner. I have, and continue to provide recognition in the form of pizza or breakfast (out of my own pocket) for hitting milestones on the way to those goals. Guess what I have learned? None of it achieves the results achieved by the management that get, let us say, more intense, and start down the discipline path at the drop of a hat. I truly wish it were otherwise... [/QUOTE]
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