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#35 peak has passed, now the real fun begins.
You still in Package Baba?
#35 peak has passed, now the real fun begins.
I thought all 90 of your drivers ran out of hours?
How can they get 600 stops on a car! Last year we had a driver doing 450 stops a day..One dat the airs were late and I went to look at his car. HE WAS STRESSED. I said "how do you get this done?". He replied "this is my first car, they bring me my second one at 4:30". They tried (no lie) to discharge him on Christmas Eve 2010.In some cases, our trucks were being sent out with over 600 stops on car! Thats right, 600 stops!
Thats how you end up with drivers over 200 stops left at 6pm at the air relays. Then, for kicks, 5 drivers have to be sent to break up all the stops and stay out till 930 or 10PM.
We have never had this happen in the 21 years ive been a driver. This was the first and probably the future of UPS planning.
Saturday morning, we got the stupid speech from the DM how we came together as a team and made it happen. He started clapping as if we were going to join him, but all he heard was crickets!
Peace
How can they get 600 stops on a car! Last year we had a driver doing 450 stops a day..One dat the airs were late and I went to look at his car. HE WAS STRESSED. I said "how do you get this done?". He replied "this is my first car, they bring me my second one at 4:30". They tried (no lie) to discharge him on Christmas Eve 2010.
worst day was 340 stops in a p700. Wow was that a crazy sight to see. I only had 10 hrs left for friday. Punched out friday after 6 with 174 stops
Our peak was a complete disaster. Starting the week of thankgiving, we were already rolling packages. The company did not plan to run what we have normally run in years past. (90 cars) and instead, kept it at 80 cars.
This led to service failures daily and the next days dispatches kept increasing on top of normal volume. As the days extended week over week, we got to peak week with all drivers in jeopardy. Yesterday (friday) the company had to gather supervisors from HR, Loss Prevention and Safety to brown up with on road sups and go out at 8 pm and take over routes with 100 stops left!
YES, I said over 100 stops left at 8pm!
When I was relived, and returned to building, we were only 10% in and drivers were buried and most likely going to bring stops back. We ended up rolling so many stops this week, we are ALL mandated to work today (saturday) to clean out the hub!
This is what happens when you put management without the benefit of actual driving experience in charge of centers and allow some IE person ( i wanted to say geek, but knew it would be removed) to destroy a centers productivity.
This years peak exceeded the worst peak on record for us and that was 2007.
Peace.
Oops...bad choice of words. I am not a supervisor. I just meant supervisors that work in my center.If you think you are going into management to "make a difference" you will conform to "their" way of thinking or be joining a couple of my fellow sups in the unemployment line.