UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
Sounds like your supervisor needs a refresher course on the methods.
correct.
Sounds like your supervisor needs a refresher course on the methods.
All I hear in my mind is cha ching.
Sounds like your supervisor needs a refresher course on the methods.
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At best, you'll be home 5 min earlier. But nickles and dimes add up. Ups makes billions. You might as well gave them give you some more coin.
Sounds like your supervisor needs a refresher course on the methods.
Let's say you have a pickup at ABC Hardware. They are an occasional shipper and have agreed to put a sign out only when they have something going. You drive by at 14:10, well within the +/- 15 minute window, don't see the sign, drive 10 miles to your next pickup stop, make their pickup, completing both stops in the board. Meanwhile, ABC Hardware gets a last-minute order and, not knowing that you have already driven by, puts the sign out. They close at 5pm. They call in a missed pickup concern at 4:50. ODS-E shows that you did indeed drive by there at 14:10 but shows that you did not complete the pickup stop until 14:25 10 miles away from the pickup location. ODS-E supports the missed pickup concern and you receive a warning letter for a missed pickup.
Just because a pattern may be predictable does not mean that you are following the methods.
Pull up to the stop, turn the pkg car off, complete the pickup stop, start the pkg car, drive to your next stop. What's that take-----10 seconds, if that?
I have 2 pickups on a country road with no shoulder and nowhere to park. They are wineries, with long driveways, and they dont want me going up there unless I need to because I kick up a lot of dust and tear up their steep gravel driveways. So, they hang "yes" signs down by the road if they have anything going out. If there is no "yes" sign, I pull the DIAD out and stop complete the pickup as I drive by. It makes me show up on a report. I dont care. My other options are (a) to stop in the middle of the road, shut off engine, and stop complete, (b) back into the driveway, park, shut off engine, hit stop complete or (c) drive 6 miles to my next pickup and hit stop complete there...by which time I will be outside the +- 15 minute compliance window for the previous pickup.
Option (a) isnt safe. Option (b) isnt particularly safe either and it will report on Telematics as an additional back. Option (c) will show both a GPS discrepancy and a pickup completed outside the compliance time window to show on the on the report. Since any action I take to keep my name from showing up on one report will automatically cause it to appear on a different one, I just quit worrying about the damn reports altogether and use my preferred method of pulling the DIAD with one hand and stop completing the pickup as I drive by.
Go old school. Write down the next 10 stops on a piece of paper.
I have 2 pickups on a country road with no shoulder and nowhere to park. They are wineries, with long driveways, and they dont want me going up there unless I need to because I kick up a lot of dust and tear up their steep gravel driveways. So, they hang "yes" signs down by the road if they have anything going out. If there is no "yes" sign, I pull the DIAD out and stop complete the pickup as I drive by. It makes me show up on a report. I dont care. My other options are (a) to stop in the middle of the road, shut off engine, and stop complete, (b) back into the driveway, park, shut off engine, hit stop complete or (c) drive 6 miles to my next pickup and hit stop complete there...by which time I will be outside the +- 15 minute compliance window for the previous pickup.
Option (a) isnt safe. Option (b) isnt particularly safe either and it will report on Telematics as an additional back. Option (c) will show both a GPS discrepancy and a pickup completed outside the compliance time window to show on the on the report. Since any action I take to keep my name from showing up on one report will automatically cause it to appear on a different one, I just quit worrying about the damn reports altogether and use my preferred method of pulling the DIAD with one hand and stop completing the pickup as I drive by.
That must be really old school as I was never taught to do this.
It is quite simple-----if you are driving, don't touch the DIAD.