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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 766932" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>Its all about generating whatever metric Atlanta wants to see.</p><p> </p><p>Atlanta wants an arbitrary number of stops per car and SPORH for each center. So a driver doing 1000 pieces out of a masher (thats what we call the big vans here) is dragging down the center's SPORH and making it look bad on paper. The reality of the situation is irrelevant, the only thing that matters is the number.</p><p> </p><p>Also, there has always been a chronic shortage of suitable vehicles for this type of work. UPS has always had a rather bizarre fetish involving undersized vehicles, and an obsession with tryng to force delivery routes into cars that are one or often two sizes too small. Need a P-12? You will get a P-8, or maybe a P-10 if you are lucky. Need a 10? You get an 8, a 7 or a 6.</p><p> </p><p>When I started back in the 80's, we had a mall route that was "dispatched" in a P-600 because thats all we had. This driver had to make 5 or 6 trips back and forth from the building in order to deliver the 3000 cubic feet of volume that the mall received each day. And when it got <em>really</em> heavy, multiple drivers had to get involved in the process and break off of their routes in order to help get that stuff delivered. The wasted time and effort involved with trying to deliver that mall in a 600 would have paid for a brand new 24-foot masher van in a <em>month or less</em>, yet the situation went on for <em>years</em> because I.E. in its infinite wisdom decided that the expense of such a truck could not be justified.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 766932, member: 14668"] Its all about generating whatever metric Atlanta wants to see. Atlanta wants an arbitrary number of stops per car and SPORH for each center. So a driver doing 1000 pieces out of a masher (thats what we call the big vans here) is dragging down the center's SPORH and making it look bad on paper. The reality of the situation is irrelevant, the only thing that matters is the number. Also, there has always been a chronic shortage of suitable vehicles for this type of work. UPS has always had a rather bizarre fetish involving undersized vehicles, and an obsession with tryng to force delivery routes into cars that are one or often two sizes too small. Need a P-12? You will get a P-8, or maybe a P-10 if you are lucky. Need a 10? You get an 8, a 7 or a 6. When I started back in the 80's, we had a mall route that was "dispatched" in a P-600 because thats all we had. This driver had to make 5 or 6 trips back and forth from the building in order to deliver the 3000 cubic feet of volume that the mall received each day. And when it got [I]really[/I] heavy, multiple drivers had to get involved in the process and break off of their routes in order to help get that stuff delivered. The wasted time and effort involved with trying to deliver that mall in a 600 would have paid for a brand new 24-foot masher van in a [I]month or less[/I], yet the situation went on for [I]years[/I] because I.E. in its infinite wisdom decided that the expense of such a truck could not be justified. [/QUOTE]
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