Why Does Volume Dictate Amount Of Routes?

[Staydryitsraining]

I skip plenty of break because our local allows it. You can bet damn well I'm not working one minute for free though.

Oh. I've driven in 2 different parts of the country and both your required to take a break.

 

[PT Car Washer]

Skipping lunch? No other way to do that, I don't care how hard you work.

Since skipping meal time is a violation, are they falsifying records?

Take 20 minutes to relax and eat a sandwich. How much of a break do you need when you start at 9AM and finish by 4PM. Home in time for a shower and a beer before supper.

 

[eats packages]

Take 20 minutes to relax and eat a sandwich. How much of a break do you need when you start at 9AM and finish by 4PM. Home in time for a shower and a beer before supper.

Or coffee break, first break after air, lunch, second break around 7pm, home by 9!

 

[Coldworld]

Or coffee break, first break after air, lunch, second break around 7pm, home by 9!

Home by 9??? Didn’t know you were a feeder driver???

 

[FrigidFTSup]

I'm pretty sure no matter where you are, your management team takes at least 31 minutes out for a lunch whether you take it or not.

Why can’t this myth die?

 

[542thruNthru]

Lol I would never do that. However, I will leave the green light unchecked until my lunch is over.

Here you don't get a choice. You take a lunch and the board locks.

Diad only shuts down when you put a lunch in your board. We get 2 options (30 min, 60 min). You can end lunch at any time. You still don’t have to take a lunch.

Here we have to finish our lunch. If you stop it you will be required to start it over again.

 

[bottomups]

Skipping lunch? No other way to do that, I don't care how hard you work.

Since skipping meal time is a violation, are they falsifying records?

I'm 59 years old and usually run about an hour bonus a day. Don't run, skip lunch or breaks. Just drive around a lot following ORION.

 

[Old Man Jingles]

Last week during our PCM our center manager said that "volume was down but stops were up" so a few routes needed to be broken out.

I go in the next day and look at dispatch numbers and the lightest route had a 9.25 plan and heaviest route at 12.5.

For our center that turned out to be roughly 90hrs of OT for 1 day.

So what is the logic for breaking out routes because volume is down?

Customers pay by the package not by the stop.

 

[dudebro]

Almost a decade later and it didn't only stay it got worse. Much worse.


What they are asking now is simply unattainable in most cases. Routes that were once considered swamped with 80 stops now go out with 80 minimum.

You're right. 36 bucks an hour was an overtime rate 10 years ago and now it's the top straight time wage rate. How could that be, right?

 

[Brownslave688]

You're right. 36 bucks an hour was an overtime rate 10 years ago and now it's the top straight time wage rate. How could that be, right?

Overtime rate was over $40 an hour 10 years ago. Nice try though. Also it's called raises. Just like the company raises prices every single year.


Driver pay is up 25% or so. Profits are up at least 100%. Dividend about 100% too. Didn't look up the numbers but I'll bet stock buyback numbers are up too.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

In 2008 RTE 1A worked the following:

140 Delivery stops
300 Delivery pcs
25 P/U Stops
125 P/U pcs
65 miles daily

You must increase Stops Per Car (SPC) because route 1A needs to have the same delivery pcs or more vs last year. You reach this number by putting more stops on a car. Most business are not getting the same amount of packages as last year. Shipper C only getting 20 daily instead of 50 vs last year.

2009 RTE 1A

152 Delivery stops
300 + delivery pcs
30 P/U stops (because 1b is cut out)
97 P/U pcs
79 miles daily

If SPC does not meet plan prior to dispatch. Routes are cut until plan is reached. Not saying I agree but this is how it works.

What is it now, in 2018?

 

[Brownslave688]

What is it now, in 2018?

a twelve hour day no matter how you add it lol

180+ total stops with 80 miles ?!?!???

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

a twelve hour day no matter how you add it lol

180+ total stops with 80 miles ?!?!???

Thankfully we still have the 60 hours work limit.

 

[Indecisi0n]

So many numbers

 

[1989]

Here we have to finish our lunch. If you stop it you will be required to start it over again.

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Have you hit “end meal” ?

Here you can end meal and restart it again... it continues from where you ended it.

 

[542thruNthru]

Have you hit “end meal” ?

Here you can end meal and restart it again... it continues from where you ended it.

Yes I have. It makes us start the whole 30 min lunch over. We have to take a 30min uninterrupted lunch.

 

[1989]

Yes I have. It makes us start the whole 30 min lunch over. We have to take a 30min uninterrupted lunch.

Have you tried it recently? Why don’t you take 60 minutes? Shutting down the board doesn’t stop one from working anyway.

 

[dudebro]

Overtime rate was over $40 an hour 10 years ago. Nice try though. Also it's called raises. Just like the company raises prices every single year.


Driver pay is up 25% or so. Profits are up at least 100%. Dividend about 100% too. Didn't look up the numbers but I'll bet stock buyback numbers are up too.

That's right. My point is, all that beautiful cashflow into the economy is enabled by greater productivity.

 

[Brownslave688]

That's right. My point is, all that beautiful cashflow into the economy is enabled by greater productivity.

Productivity is reaching max capacity

 

[dudebro]

For a person's capacity for daily volume of work, yea. This is why the rumors we've heard about different pay rates for different drivers, etc. Ideally, profits, wages, and prices will all continue to rise, and if one has to remain stagnant, hopefully that's prices.