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<blockquote data-quote="BrownArmy" data-source="post: 778769" data-attributes="member: 18225"><p>I'm a cover driver and I know A LOT of routes...the EDD on some is good, on others really poor. It's all based on whoever inputed the data to populate the EDD.</p><p></p><p>On some routes, if I ran EDD exactly, I'd be out until midnight! There are times EDD puts me at the wrong end of a one-way street, brings me right back to an address I've already driven by twice, etc. etc. It's even worse when I cover split routes in two different towns...EDD has me going from one town to the other and back again. Obviously non-ideal.</p><p></p><p>Of course, every route is different (business/residential/city/rural), but I see EDD as a rough guide - it organizes sections of the route together, and (ideally) lets you know where the packages are on the truck.</p><p></p><p>Other than that, I run routes in the most efficient way possible that I know how to. <strong>By all means, use your route and knowledge and common sense to deliver what's on your truck that day in a smart, efficient manner.</strong></p><p></p><p>If you think about it, we break trace all the time, to deliver NDA's, to make pickup-commitment times, etc. Moreover, the 'trace' in EDD is populated as if you were going to EVERY SINGLE address on EVERY SINGLE street, which of course you aren't, not even during peak.</p><p></p><p>Your management team doesn't really have time to fix the 'trace'...if you want, have them print out the EDD loop and make corrections to it yourself and have your dispatch sup manually make the changes. Like I said, some routes have better EDD's than others...some are downright awful. </p><p></p><p>If your management team really wants you to run trace, give them the corrections and put it back on them to make the changes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrownArmy, post: 778769, member: 18225"] I'm a cover driver and I know A LOT of routes...the EDD on some is good, on others really poor. It's all based on whoever inputed the data to populate the EDD. On some routes, if I ran EDD exactly, I'd be out until midnight! There are times EDD puts me at the wrong end of a one-way street, brings me right back to an address I've already driven by twice, etc. etc. It's even worse when I cover split routes in two different towns...EDD has me going from one town to the other and back again. Obviously non-ideal. Of course, every route is different (business/residential/city/rural), but I see EDD as a rough guide - it organizes sections of the route together, and (ideally) lets you know where the packages are on the truck. Other than that, I run routes in the most efficient way possible that I know how to. [B]By all means, use your route and knowledge and common sense to deliver what's on your truck that day in a smart, efficient manner.[/B] If you think about it, we break trace all the time, to deliver NDA's, to make pickup-commitment times, etc. Moreover, the 'trace' in EDD is populated as if you were going to EVERY SINGLE address on EVERY SINGLE street, which of course you aren't, not even during peak. Your management team doesn't really have time to fix the 'trace'...if you want, have them print out the EDD loop and make corrections to it yourself and have your dispatch sup manually make the changes. Like I said, some routes have better EDD's than others...some are downright awful. If your management team really wants you to run trace, give them the corrections and put it back on them to make the changes. [/QUOTE]
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