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8.6 to 8.2 planned day update
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<blockquote data-quote="Undertow" data-source="post: 3754945" data-attributes="member: 4550"><p>Know it all too well. Won't see anything even remotely in the neighborhood of a dispatch under 8.5 hours in our building unless a driver is on an an hours restriction. Even if local management were given the green light to allow it, there simply isn't the manpower to come anywhere near fulfilling that dream. Once in a blue moon, a driver might get asked in the morning if he wants the day off but that's only in the event that volume scheduled to arrive for that day's dispatch was delayed and that leads to everybody getting crushed on the dispatch the following day. I can't even remember the last time we actually had adequate staffing. It might have been close just before the Saturday operation arrived, but ever since it's mostly been a chronic shortage. </p><p></p><p>On occasion, they've dealt a new hire who's been out until after 10PM several nights of the week something close to under 9.5 just to try and keep the guy from quitting immediately, but that most often means the two guys on either side of his area go from 11 hours to something approaching 13. That in turn means somebody further away gets "instructed" to take 40 stops of one of those two at 7pm while a second driver will have to break off to meet the other to take off any air he picked up and exchange his "good" battery with less than 30% charge remaining with the already dead one the driver with 50 or more deliveries left can't use with anywhere from 2 to 3 hours left to finish. </p><p></p><p>Drivers begging for overtime? That's just an absolutely foreign concept from my angle. I've just literally never seen a single example of it. The only thing even near an 8.2 hour day I've witnessed could only be the first car of a double trip.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Undertow, post: 3754945, member: 4550"] Know it all too well. Won't see anything even remotely in the neighborhood of a dispatch under 8.5 hours in our building unless a driver is on an an hours restriction. Even if local management were given the green light to allow it, there simply isn't the manpower to come anywhere near fulfilling that dream. Once in a blue moon, a driver might get asked in the morning if he wants the day off but that's only in the event that volume scheduled to arrive for that day's dispatch was delayed and that leads to everybody getting crushed on the dispatch the following day. I can't even remember the last time we actually had adequate staffing. It might have been close just before the Saturday operation arrived, but ever since it's mostly been a chronic shortage. On occasion, they've dealt a new hire who's been out until after 10PM several nights of the week something close to under 9.5 just to try and keep the guy from quitting immediately, but that most often means the two guys on either side of his area go from 11 hours to something approaching 13. That in turn means somebody further away gets "instructed" to take 40 stops of one of those two at 7pm while a second driver will have to break off to meet the other to take off any air he picked up and exchange his "good" battery with less than 30% charge remaining with the already dead one the driver with 50 or more deliveries left can't use with anywhere from 2 to 3 hours left to finish. Drivers begging for overtime? That's just an absolutely foreign concept from my angle. I've just literally never seen a single example of it. The only thing even near an 8.2 hour day I've witnessed could only be the first car of a double trip. [/QUOTE]
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