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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 401665" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>I will never forget when we first went online with Package Level Detail and how it forced management to be honest and actually plan for peak.</p><p> </p><p>Prior to that, the "plan" was totally inadequate for the volume---to the point that, by Christmas eve, we would have hundreds and hundreds of stops piled up in barns, garages, sheds, or anywhere else they could be stashed. These packages werent recorded or sheeted as missed, the only thing that mattered was getting them out of the building to maintain the illusion of a dispatch. On any given day, there were several thousand cubic feet of volume that simply could not be forced into the available vehicles, so drivers would have to go out on area, unload, and return to the building for more, knowing all the while that there was no hope of delivering what they had already offloaded. We would wind up delivering Xmas packages well into January....and yet, on paper at least, everything was still going according to the "plan."</p><p> </p><p>That all changed when we went to PLD. There was no longer any way for management to hide the stops. They couldnt just bury them and clean up the mess later. The "plan" that had worked so well for years could not be sustained. Fortunately, those in upper-level management who had run the same scam when they were new chose to grant "amnesty" towards the operations sups who all the sudden were caught in the open without any wiggle room. Peak season got way better when we started dealing with reality.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 401665, member: 14668"] I will never forget when we first went online with Package Level Detail and how it forced management to be honest and actually plan for peak. Prior to that, the "plan" was totally inadequate for the volume---to the point that, by Christmas eve, we would have hundreds and hundreds of stops piled up in barns, garages, sheds, or anywhere else they could be stashed. These packages werent recorded or sheeted as missed, the only thing that mattered was getting them out of the building to maintain the illusion of a dispatch. On any given day, there were several thousand cubic feet of volume that simply could not be forced into the available vehicles, so drivers would have to go out on area, unload, and return to the building for more, knowing all the while that there was no hope of delivering what they had already offloaded. We would wind up delivering Xmas packages well into January....and yet, on paper at least, everything was still going according to the "plan." That all changed when we went to PLD. There was no longer any way for management to hide the stops. They couldnt just bury them and clean up the mess later. The "plan" that had worked so well for years could not be sustained. Fortunately, those in upper-level management who had run the same scam when they were new chose to grant "amnesty" towards the operations sups who all the sudden were caught in the open without any wiggle room. Peak season got way better when we started dealing with reality. [/QUOTE]
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