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<blockquote data-quote="Whither" data-source="post: 4114639" data-attributes="member: 76643"><p>It's definitely not a dream trip. Bid driver has less than 4 years seniority and he's been running it for almost 3 years now. Steward wasn't happy at all to hear I'll have to qualify on it. Center uses it as a training route of last resort, far as I've heard. Last stop of the day is a bulk pickup. Ranges between 75-150 pieces, several over-70s, plenty of air. Every day a surepost stop, no less than 80 pieces strewn about the floor. Each day there was one piece that neither one of us could find: one day the UPS shipping label had fallen off, next found it later on the 8000 shelf, then wrong car. It's hard to fly in some of the resi areas due to the layout of the streets. River bluff town. A few stops I'll have the choice between making very fine maneuvers in a P-1200 (there's clearance, but little margin for error) or long walks up and down janky staircases. Me, I err on the side of walking off these kind of stops. Fingers-crossed I don't get tasked with delivering a heavy irreg at one, but I prolly will ha. </p><p></p><p>We ran the route very smoothly my 3rd day in the jump-seat. Maintained a steady clip all day. Far as I could tell, the only time we might've cut was chatting at businesses, but the bid-driver went out of his way and introduced me to regular customers. He was interested to see whether we scratched the route, said if the time studies meant anything at all we'd be close. I joked we'd be an hour off, even though we arrived at the last stop (the pickup) 10 minutes before their window without any downtime besides our breaks, of course. Sure enough, 89 clicks over, ha. </p><p></p><p>So I'm not sweating scratch. Bid driver and I were talking with my safety mentor, a high-seniority guy. He relayed that a driver recently qualified and <em>never</em> once ran better than <em>150 clicks over</em>. I won't be <em>that</em> guy, but I also won't take stupid risks to beat a fictional measure of productivity. </p><p></p><p>As for hopes, yup, no point being naive. To the company we're productive machinery, that's all. Nevertheless, to be a union member and fetch decent pay/bennies, that's a big step up from Amazon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whither, post: 4114639, member: 76643"] It's definitely not a dream trip. Bid driver has less than 4 years seniority and he's been running it for almost 3 years now. Steward wasn't happy at all to hear I'll have to qualify on it. Center uses it as a training route of last resort, far as I've heard. Last stop of the day is a bulk pickup. Ranges between 75-150 pieces, several over-70s, plenty of air. Every day a surepost stop, no less than 80 pieces strewn about the floor. Each day there was one piece that neither one of us could find: one day the UPS shipping label had fallen off, next found it later on the 8000 shelf, then wrong car. It's hard to fly in some of the resi areas due to the layout of the streets. River bluff town. A few stops I'll have the choice between making very fine maneuvers in a P-1200 (there's clearance, but little margin for error) or long walks up and down janky staircases. Me, I err on the side of walking off these kind of stops. Fingers-crossed I don't get tasked with delivering a heavy irreg at one, but I prolly will ha. We ran the route very smoothly my 3rd day in the jump-seat. Maintained a steady clip all day. Far as I could tell, the only time we might've cut was chatting at businesses, but the bid-driver went out of his way and introduced me to regular customers. He was interested to see whether we scratched the route, said if the time studies meant anything at all we'd be close. I joked we'd be an hour off, even though we arrived at the last stop (the pickup) 10 minutes before their window without any downtime besides our breaks, of course. Sure enough, 89 clicks over, ha. So I'm not sweating scratch. Bid driver and I were talking with my safety mentor, a high-seniority guy. He relayed that a driver recently qualified and [I]never[/I] once ran better than [I]150 clicks over[/I]. I won't be [I]that[/I] guy, but I also won't take stupid risks to beat a fictional measure of productivity. As for hopes, yup, no point being naive. To the company we're productive machinery, that's all. Nevertheless, to be a union member and fetch decent pay/bennies, that's a big step up from Amazon. [/QUOTE]
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