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<blockquote data-quote="UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)" data-source="post: 409236" data-attributes="member: 12570"><p>Good question. I have noticed that most of the changes occur among the less senior drivers as most of the senior drivers have been on their areas for some time and wish to stay there. Changes also occur when you have a route which had been bid between normal bid cycles (retirement, termination, medical, etc) and the bid was only available to those drivers who had less seniority than the driver who had held the bid route, thus resulting in a bid and a place. Perhaps a new route has been added between bid cycles. A driver who did not want to leave his route when that new route had been posted may have changed his mind and wants to bid on that route now. We have one route that has been designated in our center as the training route, meaning that the driver who bids this route does so with the understanding that he must vacate that route for the 30 days that a new driver needs to qualify. Well, that driver may have tired of having to work elsewhere for that month (or more depending on how many new drivers) and wants more stability. </p><p> </p><p>I like the change to a bi-annual bid cycle as I felt 18 months was not long enough and this will reduce the potential amount of training necessary if any changes are made as a result of the bidding process.</p><p> </p><p>I probably should have asked this first but are we to assume that routes in your center are bid and then held until retirement, separation or disqualification?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="UpstateNYUPSer(Ret), post: 409236, member: 12570"] Good question. I have noticed that most of the changes occur among the less senior drivers as most of the senior drivers have been on their areas for some time and wish to stay there. Changes also occur when you have a route which had been bid between normal bid cycles (retirement, termination, medical, etc) and the bid was only available to those drivers who had less seniority than the driver who had held the bid route, thus resulting in a bid and a place. Perhaps a new route has been added between bid cycles. A driver who did not want to leave his route when that new route had been posted may have changed his mind and wants to bid on that route now. We have one route that has been designated in our center as the training route, meaning that the driver who bids this route does so with the understanding that he must vacate that route for the 30 days that a new driver needs to qualify. Well, that driver may have tired of having to work elsewhere for that month (or more depending on how many new drivers) and wants more stability. I like the change to a bi-annual bid cycle as I felt 18 months was not long enough and this will reduce the potential amount of training necessary if any changes are made as a result of the bidding process. I probably should have asked this first but are we to assume that routes in your center are bid and then held until retirement, separation or disqualification? [/QUOTE]
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