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<blockquote data-quote="dudebro" data-source="post: 235970" data-attributes="member: 11234"><p>UPSgrunt, it IS true. Feeder routes with 1 stop go into the PKG average, and the addition of a feeder route in a typical 50 driver center will require the rest of the drivers to go up by 2 stops per car each to maintain the same average stops per car overall.</p><p>The center manager in many cases doesn't have a choice. In my district the region dictated we plan 2 spc over last year for the summer. We were short staffing last year, so paid day and spc were already high, so this is difficult. The response was then fix your overallowed, which is about an hour per driver. </p><p>The gutsier center manager's would run drivers over the plan and take the gamble that they could get the SPORH they needed with fewer stops per car, so when they were questioned on dispatch they could respond by pointing out their performance. Sooner or later you were bound to have that "bad day" though, and you got murdered for 'underdispatching'. </p><p>This year the staffing was scrutinized and every driver on the "bench" required a justification as well. In these cases, without sending anyone home, the decision on a Tuesday (peak stops) is taken completely out of their hands. They run who they have, and don't get anymore people to do otherwise. That's why when you point out your dispatch on THOSE days, all the guy CAN do is say "sorry". I know a few sadists revel in overdispatching their people, but this summer I had a "discussion" with a managers nose in my mouth probably twice a week about the stops per car plan, and would be accused of trying to kill their people. They don't like it either. This goes on behind closed doors and you drivers may not see much of it, but it happens. </p><p></p><p>The corporation's position is that we have an hour overallowed per driver on average, so even if half of that is wrong, go get the other half and turn an unreasonable 9.50 paid day into a more reasonable 9.0 paid day, then come talk to me. Maybe it's out there. But that's the "terrain in which we all find ourselves deployed".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dudebro, post: 235970, member: 11234"] UPSgrunt, it IS true. Feeder routes with 1 stop go into the PKG average, and the addition of a feeder route in a typical 50 driver center will require the rest of the drivers to go up by 2 stops per car each to maintain the same average stops per car overall. The center manager in many cases doesn't have a choice. In my district the region dictated we plan 2 spc over last year for the summer. We were short staffing last year, so paid day and spc were already high, so this is difficult. The response was then fix your overallowed, which is about an hour per driver. The gutsier center manager's would run drivers over the plan and take the gamble that they could get the SPORH they needed with fewer stops per car, so when they were questioned on dispatch they could respond by pointing out their performance. Sooner or later you were bound to have that "bad day" though, and you got murdered for 'underdispatching'. This year the staffing was scrutinized and every driver on the "bench" required a justification as well. In these cases, without sending anyone home, the decision on a Tuesday (peak stops) is taken completely out of their hands. They run who they have, and don't get anymore people to do otherwise. That's why when you point out your dispatch on THOSE days, all the guy CAN do is say "sorry". I know a few sadists revel in overdispatching their people, but this summer I had a "discussion" with a managers nose in my mouth probably twice a week about the stops per car plan, and would be accused of trying to kill their people. They don't like it either. This goes on behind closed doors and you drivers may not see much of it, but it happens. The corporation's position is that we have an hour overallowed per driver on average, so even if half of that is wrong, go get the other half and turn an unreasonable 9.50 paid day into a more reasonable 9.0 paid day, then come talk to me. Maybe it's out there. But that's the "terrain in which we all find ourselves deployed". [/QUOTE]
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