Ups testing delivering ground on saturdays

[Brownslave688]

I don't think anybody is expecting perfection. But Jesus, you'd think we were planning on building a habitat on Mars based on this thread.

I'd hire Matt Damon if that were the case.

 

[FrigidFTSup]

I'd hire Matt Damon if that were the case.

Give him some botany classes before hand just in case

 

[Brownslave688]

DIAD 1 was a piece of crap but UPS made a lot of claims about how great they were anyway.

The big advantage was for tracking. Even at that time UPS didn't try to claim it was faster. "Just as fast" as paper.

Serious reliability issues with early DIADs also (which UPS tried to pretend didn't happen).

Hell even when I started and we had the diad 3 I would say it was barely ready for prime time.


Even now we deal with things like poor battery life and inability to do things like scan the smart barcode n

 

[oldngray]

Hell even when I started and we had the diad 3 I would say it was barely ready for prime time.


Even now we deal with things like poor battery life and inability to do things like scan the smart barcode n

The 3 was particularly bad. Mostly just a 2 inside but they tried to get it to do more than it was really capable of so it was as slow as hell.

 

[Jack4343]

Go into base plan, cut from known closed to the route. End of issue.


Seriously guys, it's not rocket science.

If only the implementation was this easy off paper. Too many lazy dispatchers as well as customers that are indecisive "We''re closed this Friday, but not the next one, oh wait, it's this Friday we're open" and drivers that try to juggle all their customers changing schedules as well as dispatchers that move the same business to a different route each day like he's playing some kind of sick twisted UPS version of Three card Monty and varying degrees of caring by drivers and you can see the issues.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

It's not like you have to do some high level of work week after week. You put it in a base plan and run it the Saturday after Saturday.

We manage to have known closed on Fridays for doctors offices without an issue. But because we're going to run on a Saturday it's all of a sudden a problem?

The list would obviously be a lot longer on Saturday; however, I think once businesses realize that we are open for business on Saturday, they may start to do the same.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I don't think anybody is expecting perfection. But Jesus, you'd think we were planning on building a habitat on Mars based on this thread.

You should be thankful that you were not here for the conversion to the DIAD.

 

[FrigidFTSup]

You should be thankful that you were not here for the conversion to the DIAD.

All comes down to communicating with the customers

 

[FrigidFTSup]

You should be thankful that you were not here for the conversion to the DIAD.

Couldn't have been worse than the ORION implementation. Would rather stick needles in my eyes than go through that again.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

All comes down to communicating with the customers

It was not the customers who were the problem.

As Tony said, older people tend to resist change. The older drivers were adamant about not wanting to make the move while the younger drivers like me embraced the change.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Couldn't have been worse than the ORION implementation. Would rather stick needles in my eyes than go through that again.

Much worse.

 

[Johney]

I just don't want some on-call situation developing on Sunday. I suspect they would claim somehow the 4 hours guarantee doesn't apply.

Hey I'd imagine they'll need a mechanic there on Saturday too in case of any breakdowns.

 

[FrigidFTSup]

It was not the customers who were the problem.

As Tony said, older people tend to resist change. The older drivers were adamant about not wanting to make the move while the younger drivers like me embraced the change.

quoted the wrong post. Meant to go for your first reply

 

[Johney]

If only the implementation was this easy off paper. Too many lazy dispatchers as well as customers that are indecisive "We''re closed this Friday, but not the next one, oh wait, it's this Friday we're open" and drivers that try to juggle all their customers changing schedules as well as dispatchers that move the same business to a different route each day like he's playing some kind of sick twisted UPS version of Three card Monty and varying degrees of caring by drivers and you can see the issues.

Exactly.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Exactly.

I went from a chalkboard to a DIAD

 

[Johney]

I went from a chalkboard to a DIAD

I like telling the younglings about having to carry three sometimes four clipboards at a time. They say "for what"? So when one neighborhood changed to a different area number (insert deer in headlights look).....huh?

 

[cosmo1]

You should be thankful that you were not here for the conversion to the DIAD.

That was seamless here Dan. As a matter of fact, we got a better time allowance for a while.

 

[iowa boy]

Seriously guys, it's not rocket science.[/QUOTE]

To our dispatcher, it IS considered rocket science, as he can't find his ass from a hole in the ground, nor could he tell the difference.

 

[Brownslave688]

Couldn't have been worse than the ORION implementation. Would rather stick needles in my eyes than go through that again.

My bosses have to be going nuts. Since Orion the 9.5 list has went from 15% of drivers to about 80%

 

[Dr.Brownz]

And I'm not thinking about a 10 car center. Why would I want to dispatch someone with a ton of closed? That's not a small center thing. That's a companywide thing.

Some smaller centers have too few management and too much falls on those people, leading to less important tasks (in the eyes of that supervisor in the context of everything that sup has to accomplish that day) such as known closures not getting done.

And this leads to drivers being pissed that things that they (the drivers) try to do to help the company are ignored or not implemented and this leads to a general attitude of not giving a about UPS's goals