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2nd Qtr Earnings Call, Peak 2014
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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1378248" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>Look at the calendar.</p><p></p><p>We have one extra day of peak this year due to Thanksgiving being on the 27th instead of the 28th which will help a little.</p><p></p><p>What will <em>really</em> get us over the hump...is to plan ahead and make Sunday, Dec. 21st an operational delivery day. Everyone will be out of hours on Friday the 19th, so we take Saturday off for a 36 hr reset and show up on Sunday morning to <strong>get clean</strong>. Christmas Day is on Thursday, so if Sunday is a delivery-only day with no pickups we could have a fighting chance of getting caught up by having 4 full work days instead of only 3 that week. We tried doing that last year in my building, but it was a half-assed plan put together at the last minute and we only sent about 20 routes out the door when we needed to send everyone out.</p><p></p><p>Think about the advantages of doing this. A lot of businesses wont be open, so that will free up time and space in the cars for residential deliveries. We wont be doing pickups, so drivers wont have to break off and spend 3 hours trying to cram 300 pieces of pickup volume in over the top of the 200 delivery stops that they still have left in their cars. More people will be home to accept apartment deliveries. We can just line 'em up and bust 'em off without worrying about air commit times, business closing times, pickups, or anything else. It would also look good to the public when they see us really going all out to get the volume delivered and help us recover from last years fiasco.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1378248, member: 14668"] Look at the calendar. We have one extra day of peak this year due to Thanksgiving being on the 27th instead of the 28th which will help a little. What will [I]really[/I] get us over the hump...is to plan ahead and make Sunday, Dec. 21st an operational delivery day. Everyone will be out of hours on Friday the 19th, so we take Saturday off for a 36 hr reset and show up on Sunday morning to [B]get clean[/B]. Christmas Day is on Thursday, so if Sunday is a delivery-only day with no pickups we could have a fighting chance of getting caught up by having 4 full work days instead of only 3 that week. We tried doing that last year in my building, but it was a half-assed plan put together at the last minute and we only sent about 20 routes out the door when we needed to send everyone out. Think about the advantages of doing this. A lot of businesses wont be open, so that will free up time and space in the cars for residential deliveries. We wont be doing pickups, so drivers wont have to break off and spend 3 hours trying to cram 300 pieces of pickup volume in over the top of the 200 delivery stops that they still have left in their cars. More people will be home to accept apartment deliveries. We can just line 'em up and bust 'em off without worrying about air commit times, business closing times, pickups, or anything else. It would also look good to the public when they see us really going all out to get the volume delivered and help us recover from last years fiasco. [/QUOTE]
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