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<blockquote data-quote="SmithBarney" data-source="post: 981434" data-attributes="member: 709">Upstate, UPS has a much more solid DOL, than FedEx. When I ran at UPS I probably could count on one hand the number of streets I didn&#039;t have deliveries for on any particular day. At Express it&#039;s a different ball game, but all in all the idea is the same, the big challenge is for the multiple commit levels. Some Managers will say get off what you can and don&#039;t have lates(essentially mixing in later commits with the earliers) others will say only do them in the order they are due. This is where Roads can fail.For Example I was in a 1200 commit route a few weeks ago, I only had 15 deliveries due by 1200, but I mixed my deliveries in and was able to deliver 60stops by 1200(and the 1200 commits were all done by 1100) who knows how Roads will behave. If I didn&#039;t mix stops It would have pushed my deliveries into my Pickup cycle which wouldn&#039;t have worked..&nbsp; EDD and ROADS can be good tools, but like you said they are only as good as the people programming them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SmithBarney, post: 981434, member: 709"] Upstate, UPS has a much more solid DOL, than FedEx. When I ran at UPS I probably could count on one hand the number of streets I didn't have deliveries for on any particular day. At Express it's a different ball game, but all in all the idea is the same, the big challenge is for the multiple commit levels. Some Managers will say get off what you can and don't have lates(essentially mixing in later commits with the earliers) others will say only do them in the order they are due. This is where Roads can fail. For Example I was in a 1200 commit route a few weeks ago, I only had 15 deliveries due by 1200, but I mixed my deliveries in and was able to deliver 60stops by 1200(and the 1200 commits were all done by 1100) who knows how Roads will behave. If I didn't mix stops It would have pushed my deliveries into my Pickup cycle which wouldn't have worked.. EDD and ROADS can be good tools, but like you said they are only as good as the people programming them. [/QUOTE]

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