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<blockquote data-quote="Seriously" data-source="post: 364152"><p>The number of air stops (along with address info) is available to dispatchers before the preload starts. There are a couple problems causing the info to not be used though. First, the programs they use to dispatch are cumbersome and don't give them good visibility on air stops. Many dispatchers throw their hands up and decide not to address air issues until just before driver start time. The second problem is that most centers under-staff their dispatch teams so they don't have enough time to use the information they do have. </p><p></p><p>Agree and disagree. I agree that some unpredictable events will be a daily part of life (call-ins, unforecasted volume, injuries, accidents, etc.). I disagree in that while responding to an unplanned event I should have to add cost to an already bad situation by having to get one driver to deliver air and another to deliver ground to the same place.</p><p></p><p></p><p>It's a computer programming issue. The system that the dispatchers use to dispatch does a terrible job counting stops and putting them in the correct order when they start dispatching the air to one driver and the ground to another driver. Then, when they start moving the work back and forth between drivers it really does some goofy things. I read a lot on here about drivers complaining about stops being all over the car or in the wrong order. Dispatching service levels separately is one of the things that causes this problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Seriously, post: 364152"] The number of air stops (along with address info) is available to dispatchers before the preload starts. There are a couple problems causing the info to not be used though. First, the programs they use to dispatch are cumbersome and don't give them good visibility on air stops. Many dispatchers throw their hands up and decide not to address air issues until just before driver start time. The second problem is that most centers under-staff their dispatch teams so they don't have enough time to use the information they do have. Agree and disagree. I agree that some unpredictable events will be a daily part of life (call-ins, unforecasted volume, injuries, accidents, etc.). I disagree in that while responding to an unplanned event I should have to add cost to an already bad situation by having to get one driver to deliver air and another to deliver ground to the same place. It's a computer programming issue. The system that the dispatchers use to dispatch does a terrible job counting stops and putting them in the correct order when they start dispatching the air to one driver and the ground to another driver. Then, when they start moving the work back and forth between drivers it really does some goofy things. I read a lot on here about drivers complaining about stops being all over the car or in the wrong order. Dispatching service levels separately is one of the things that causes this problem. [/QUOTE]
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