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<blockquote data-quote="UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)" data-source="post: 675859" data-attributes="member: 12570"><p>Satellite routes are added to save costs. The company will find a location near the meet point where they can safely house the PC overnight and have minor service done. The packages and DIAD, with EDD, are brought to the meet point and either dropped (if in a TP-60) or transferred to the PC. Pickup pieces and DIAD are brought back to the meet point to be brought back to the center. The company is saving money on the miles and fuel that the PC would have driven if it had started the area from the center.</p><p> </p><p>The driver for the sat route will report to the meet point in his private vehicle at his own expense. It would not make sense for him/her to ride back and forth with the driver who brings his work to him as that driver would normally be done later than the sat driver for the reasons stated above. </p><p> </p><p>A sat route would be ideal for a driver who lives closer to the meet point than to the center. The level of supervision on a sat route is much less than on a route dispatched out of the center. The start time is usually later as you have to wait for the work to come to you. You also then have to load your PC, deliver the pkgs, and then go back to the meet point to drop your P/U pkgs and DIAD.</p><p> </p><p>Would I want a sat route? No, as I live about 5 miles from my center and I live on my current area.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="UpstateNYUPSer(Ret), post: 675859, member: 12570"] Satellite routes are added to save costs. The company will find a location near the meet point where they can safely house the PC overnight and have minor service done. The packages and DIAD, with EDD, are brought to the meet point and either dropped (if in a TP-60) or transferred to the PC. Pickup pieces and DIAD are brought back to the meet point to be brought back to the center. The company is saving money on the miles and fuel that the PC would have driven if it had started the area from the center. The driver for the sat route will report to the meet point in his private vehicle at his own expense. It would not make sense for him/her to ride back and forth with the driver who brings his work to him as that driver would normally be done later than the sat driver for the reasons stated above. A sat route would be ideal for a driver who lives closer to the meet point than to the center. The level of supervision on a sat route is much less than on a route dispatched out of the center. The start time is usually later as you have to wait for the work to come to you. You also then have to load your PC, deliver the pkgs, and then go back to the meet point to drop your P/U pkgs and DIAD. Would I want a sat route? No, as I live about 5 miles from my center and I live on my current area. [/QUOTE]
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