Is there a special way your center numbers/names their trucks?

[bleedinbrown58]

That's sad. Lol but funny as .

The only sad part of that is that center manager died about 4 years ago from cancer. He had a good sense of humor.

 

[MC0493]

I'd say about 80% of the routes in the building have a pal label that says something besides the route ID. Some are names or shortened names, others i dont know where they came from.

 

[Wally]

I'm just glad if the carwash puts my truck in the right slot.

 

[DriveInDriveOut]

I'd say about 80% of the routes in the building have a pal label that says something besides the route ID. Some are names or shortened names, others i dont know where they came from.

A few of ours are 4 letters from the names of drivers that have gone to feeders or taken combo jobs. One route still is the name of a driver who was fired almost 2 years ago. Part of me thinks they keep it named that just to remind people he was fired lol.

 

[BUCN85]

Ours change all the time thinking this will help the preloader s with their miss loads. How about not giving them 4 trucks with over 250 pieces a truck and 3.5 hrs to do it all.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

1000 pkgs in 3.5 hours is not unreasonable.

 

[jaker]

1000 pkgs in 3.5 hours is not unreasonable.

Of course you would say that , give this man a extra 50 stops it's not unreasonable for you to do that

 

[no more than 9]

In my bldg we're just a number.

 

[a911scanner]

Of course you would say that , give this man a extra 50 stops it's not unreasonable for you to do that

He'd still be home by 6pm too.

 

[cosmo1]

Ours used to be the first three letters of our last names on the route. So the Pals would say SMI, JOH, MIL, and so on. But then we got some nozzle that didn't like this as he thought it gave drivers a big head of the route being "theirs". So said nozzle decided to renumber all the routes in order. 121, 122, 123, 124...... We now have 10 times more misloads than we did before his genius move, which he said he was doing to cut down on misloads.

Dwayne?

 

[BaggyPants]

It was easier Pre-ORION (shocker I know). To change names you have to go through every base plan and changed each route individually. Then you have to optimize every route, even if you aren't dispatching it. We changed all the car names in my old center once. We had 30 routes with 35 or so base plans. Took a full day to change everything.

Oh, I was gonna say...we just started Orion. But usually our trucks could change daily, by driver's name, or a color, city or town. Bet not, anymore.

 

[ManInBrown]

parking spot number

 

[FrigidFTSup]

Oh, I was gonna say...we just started Orion. But usually our trucks could change daily, by driver's name, or a color, city or town. Bet not, anymore.

Doesn't make it impossible. But I'm not changing names unless I have to

 

[BaggyPants]

Doesn't make it impossible. But I'm not changing names unless I have to

Our previous sup figured out how to change Surepost po names, too. It used to take an act of congress just about. It really helped.

 

[FrigidFTSup]

Our previous sup figured out how to change Surepost po names, too. It used to take an act of congress just about. It really helped.

You have to do it all through IE and it's just a bastard. I figured out how to do it for local sort, but I was always worried about changing it to the wrong sort and screwing it all up.

 

[cosmo1]

Dwayne?

@Operational needs, different Dwayne.

@Cementups knows who I mean.

 

[FrigidFTSup]

@Operational needs, different Dwayne.

@Cementups knows who I mean.

@Operational needs, different Dwayne.

@Cementups knows who I mean.

D Wade?

 

[Cementups]

Dwayne?

No, it was a preload manager. I think his name was Arse Hat.

 

[bleedinbrown58]

Ours change all the time thinking this will help the preloader s with their miss loads. How about not giving them 4 trucks with over 250 pieces a truck and 3.5 hrs to do it all.

It's not so much the number of packages per trucks as it is the rate of the flow and amount of overweights. 1100 pieces with a decent flow can seem like less than 950 with a stop/start erratic flow.