OP stated that on one of the routes he covers there is a 17:00 pickup and is on the way back to the building at 16:45, but yet still comes in over. There is nothing you can do. If you do the pickup early, then you will show up on another report.
The system is designed so that no matter what you do, you will inevitably be doing something wrong. You fix one thing, and you will end up on some other report.
If you run a trip at the up most efficiency, getting a lot of airs off with grounds and lowering the miles below the EDD plan, you are setting yourself up to be even more over allowed. Run the route as close to 100% as you can. Don't go all crazy with grounds during your airs.....don't close out a pick up so you can finish a neighborhood before making pickup........don't worry about having to make more deliveries after pickups, and you may find that their plan will be closer, again CLOSER, to getting you to scratch.
Again, it is set up so that you are failing somewhere no matter what you do. Kind of reminds me of Nicky Santoro from Casino:
- Best of all, for the first time in my life... I figured out a way not to lose.
- [Ace] Yeah, he had a foolproof scheme, all right. It wasn't very scientific, but it worked. When he won, he collected; when he lost, he told the bookies to go friend' themselveS. What were they gonna do, muscle Nicky?
- Hey, how you doin'?
- How you doin'? You got that thing for me?
- What thing? Oh, Nicky. I thought you was layin'.
- No, no, I'm takin'. I was takin'.
- You sure?
- I'm positive.
- I'm a little confused.
- You're a little confused? Maybe if I stick your friend'IN face through this window... you'll get unconfused. Gimme the friend'in money.
- I'm sorry, Nick. didn't mean anything by it.
- That's why you had it ready. You thought I was friend'in layin' it?
- My friend'in head.
- Smarten up.