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<blockquote data-quote="UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)" data-source="post: 472534" data-attributes="member: 12570"><p>Our plane has to take off at the same time each day and they do not hold the plane so getting the air back to the center is a must. We have had instances where drivers have gone right to the airport to ensure their air makes the plane. We will set up meets in some of our outlying areas to transfer pickup pieces to one driver and the remaining deliveries to the other(s). Drivers close enough to the center will come in and dump their air and go back out.</p><p> </p><p>Curfews are established and ECs are used to make sure that we get as much delivered as we can while ensuring that we get back to the bldg safely. However, as with any other situation, there are always those few drivers who take advantage of the EC and blow off stops that they probably should have attempted. We had one (cover) driver bring back 25 ECs and the regular driver had to deliver his route plus the 25 ECs the following day--he was not a happy camper. The sad part was that the cover driver was punched out and gone before 1700 so could have used the 2 hours to at least try to make service on some of those ECs. I had a rural route for several years so know full well some of the challenges those routes present but you still do all that you can to make service, to include making phone calls, indirecting or whatever you can. The cover driver with the 25 ECs had commercial stops in there, including paychecks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="UpstateNYUPSer(Ret), post: 472534, member: 12570"] Our plane has to take off at the same time each day and they do not hold the plane so getting the air back to the center is a must. We have had instances where drivers have gone right to the airport to ensure their air makes the plane. We will set up meets in some of our outlying areas to transfer pickup pieces to one driver and the remaining deliveries to the other(s). Drivers close enough to the center will come in and dump their air and go back out. Curfews are established and ECs are used to make sure that we get as much delivered as we can while ensuring that we get back to the bldg safely. However, as with any other situation, there are always those few drivers who take advantage of the EC and blow off stops that they probably should have attempted. We had one (cover) driver bring back 25 ECs and the regular driver had to deliver his route plus the 25 ECs the following day--he was not a happy camper. The sad part was that the cover driver was punched out and gone before 1700 so could have used the 2 hours to at least try to make service on some of those ECs. I had a rural route for several years so know full well some of the challenges those routes present but you still do all that you can to make service, to include making phone calls, indirecting or whatever you can. The cover driver with the 25 ECs had commercial stops in there, including paychecks. [/QUOTE]
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