MechanicForBrown
Prblm found,part on order
man, thank god i'm in automotive.
And when u trip and fall--they'll say you werent using safe work methods.
man,, as real as it gets there..........................
Dont confuse this issue with the normal IE inflated performance measurement arguement. You cant realistically argue against the point that the diad is so much quicker and easier then paper.
Have you ever actually used a DIAD yourself, to deliver an entire route with?
I've used every version iof the DIAD since its inception,and before that I was recording on paper. I have used both and can say with 100& certainty that the DAD is not really quicker than paper
um this is nothing new at my station.
Sober, I have to respectfully disagree with you on this one. I considered myself to be very efficient when we were on paper but I am much faster on the DIAD than I ever was on paper (at bulk stops). I continue to sheet while walking at residential stops, I have the next 5 stops mentally lined up, and I use Find BC quite a bit. You are right in that there is little difference at a residential stop, and not much at a business stop with fewer than 10 pkgs but the real difference for me is at my larger bulk stops (WalMart, Sams and the college) where I am much faster than I ever was on paper.
Station?
DIAD and EDD DO save time. Just not as much as IE claims. DIAD makes tracking possible and tracing a whole different animal from the paper days, though. I personally think that DIAD and EDD were oversold and after the money was spent there was no choice but to try to drive up productivity by changing the allowances by whatever amount was necessary to justify the costs.
How does changing the allowances drive up productivity? It might take some of the money away from bonus drivers, but it doesn't drive up their productivity. If it does...then they were dogging it before....
The allowance is like an electric treadmill that the driver is required to run on.
Almost any driver can be made to run "faster" for a little while if IE cranks up the RPM's. The problem starts when the pace becomes unsustainable and the driver cant keep up and gets thrown off of the back.
IE has basically rigged the meter downward to show fewer RPM's than are actually taking place. The driver is running just as fast if not faster than before, yet he is being lied to and told otherwise and the dispatch is cranked up higher and higher based upon those intentionally false readings.
In this analogy, the on-road supervisor is standing directly behind the driver and beating him with the whip of the daily report and screaming at him to keep the RPM's up to where they were before. He does this because if the driver cant keep up and gets tossed off the back, he will be thrown right on top of the sup and they both wind up in a mess on the floor.
Meanwhile, the IE guy is sitting in an office someplace watching the whole thing and laughing his sick ass off while he keeps turning those RPM's up higher and higher and higher. He isnt the one on the treadmill and he isnt the one that gets squashed by the driver when he gets thrown off the back. All he cares about is keeping those RPM's going as fast as possible.
If that IE guy ever had to leave his office to go out in the real world and stand behind the driver, I suspect that he would make sure that the "RPM meter" on that treadmill was accurate...since it would wind up being his problem if it weren't.
Being a successful driver means being willing to maintain the same pace no matter how fast they try to turn that treadmill up. It means being willing to get thrown off the back every single day. And it means remembering that your supervisor is the one who is going to take the brunt of the impact and not you. You just have to be willing to ignore IE's "RPM meter" and keep getting back on that treadmill every morning.
A wonderful analogy that makes everyone sound really sinister but does nothing to address the point that the diad is much faster then writing on paper.
A wonderful analogy that makes everyone sound really sinister but does nothing to address the point that the diad is much faster then writing on paper.
Or when, whichever comes first, I'm bettin' on the winged porkers.I really feel sorry for the people coming into the company now. They have received such big promises that will never be delivered until the union or someone in the upper echelons of this once great company recognize the injustices that have been perpatrated.
I'm sorry but you are just plain wrong here.
The DIAD is at best marginally faster than paper was, and then only at bulk stops with large numbers of pieces.
If we are talking DR's, apartment complexes, or signature stops of less than 10 or 15 pieces...there is no real difference. The time that it takes to select the package, carry it to the delivery point and get it signed for is no different. You scan...or write the shipper #....as you are walking per the 340 methods. The total elapsed amount of time per stop, from securing the vehicle to getting back to the handrail, is not affected by DIAD vs. 50-liner unless it is a huge bulk stop. It is dictated by the physical characteristics of the stop, length of walk, stairs, elevators etc.
A guy who loads 20 pieces onto a carry aid and runs them up to the 5th floor on an elevator to deliver them got screwed because whether he was on DIAD or on paper, he would be sheeting all of the packages up during the elevator ride. The time taken to record each package is irrelevant to the overall time taken to complete the stop.
A guy who did a lot of DR's with long walks also got screwed, because the time it took him to walk to the delivery point and back never changed, and whether he was on paper or DIAD he recorded the package during the walk.
What IE did...was a blanket, across-the-board reduction in the time allowance for each piece, without any regard for the physical circumstances under which that piece was being delivered.