beentheredonethat
Well-Known Member
is 17 pounds the average that we get per box...ummm I think Im getting screwed. Something else I have been curious about is drive speed, can there be a variance if your driving in business parks and dock areas most of the day in which case your going 15-20 mph. Is speed manually put into a route allowance or is everybody the same. Also, if you have a dock route and have to wait longer on average for people to open the dock and answer the bell can there be a variance for that. maybe p-man can comment, sorry to change the direction of the post!
For mileage\drive speed. there are two types of mileage for your allowance. The first is the to\fr allowance. Which is basically what amount of time and miles does it take to get you to your work area and back to your ctr. This is based on the delivery area you deliver to. If you deliver to more then one, then it uses the farthest delivery area for this, even if you start in the closest. (there were lots of reasons for this)... The time allowance is basically using the MPH for speed limit and it also throws in delays if during typical drive time you would encounter red lights, 2 way stop signs etc. Once this miles and times are calculated the rest of the miles you drove is your on area miles. The on area miles take into account the time to start and stop the car and travel from stop to stop. Picture a route that is pretty rural and the on area miles is 60 miles, The driver delv 100 stops that were all DR and had only 5 pickups. Well you can imagine that the driver avg's .6 miles between stops and most likely has quite a few stops close together and then quite a few where he would drive quite a few miles to get to the stops. For this the driver isn't given a lot of time for on area per mile, since there would be a lot of time driving at or near the speed limit and not a lot of starting\stopping. Another driver drives 6 miles on area and also has 100 delv stops. But his is all business, with multiple pkgs per stops and all signatures. For this driver, he doesn't drive far between stops so would often be starting and stopping and never getting to regular speeds. Per mile, the allowance is high. (It's called by a lot of the old IE people as the great on area travel curve. ) I hope you get the idea, but I would have to spend hours to go into the nitty gritty on it. Is it perfect 100% of time, no, but it does work out to give the avg driver a fair on area allowance. Usually from my history doing time studies, the on area travel is where most drivers were scratch or paid under. The selet process is where most drivers lost time.