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<blockquote data-quote="OrioN" data-source="post: 1802073" data-attributes="member: 58562"><p>hmm, no answer as of yet because your contractors should know their service areas & what type of vehicles to use on those chosen areas.</p><p></p><p>i find those sprinters and boxvans to be good on mostly rural areas, and when those streets are narrower than the standard suburbia jungle.</p><p></p><p>p500s & those skinny sprinters are just too small these days when we're lugging more furniture from wayfair, target, walmart, etc... they're good as supplemental vehicles only with about 150 stops max if we don't have too many big boxes to load or be forced to fold 1/2 of the cargo shelves up on one side of the stepvan. in a sprinter, i had to fold up all of the shelves to brick it out & work out of the rear doors all day long/ leaving the sliding pass through door closed.</p><p></p><p>it's a mixed bag of tricks though when you're loading/sorting your own stuff on the HD side. I get the map overview to make sure the software had done it's job to make sure i'm not going around the same streets 2-3 times on a given day or i'll find a manager and re-sequence my whole area to make me "straight line" through my day (that's when i come in late and the sort is done). or i'll just sort /load it the way i see fit to minimize my on-road time during the sort... they have to understand that we aren't getting <strong>paid by the hour or OT </strong>to be out on the road driving up to 12-14 hours a day.</p><p></p><p>ground, meh, i tend to stay away from their operations. i just don't like doubling back on the same streets for the various pickups/ deadlines.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OrioN, post: 1802073, member: 58562"] hmm, no answer as of yet because your contractors should know their service areas & what type of vehicles to use on those chosen areas. i find those sprinters and boxvans to be good on mostly rural areas, and when those streets are narrower than the standard suburbia jungle. p500s & those skinny sprinters are just too small these days when we're lugging more furniture from wayfair, target, walmart, etc... they're good as supplemental vehicles only with about 150 stops max if we don't have too many big boxes to load or be forced to fold 1/2 of the cargo shelves up on one side of the stepvan. in a sprinter, i had to fold up all of the shelves to brick it out & work out of the rear doors all day long/ leaving the sliding pass through door closed. it's a mixed bag of tricks though when you're loading/sorting your own stuff on the HD side. I get the map overview to make sure the software had done it's job to make sure i'm not going around the same streets 2-3 times on a given day or i'll find a manager and re-sequence my whole area to make me "straight line" through my day (that's when i come in late and the sort is done). or i'll just sort /load it the way i see fit to minimize my on-road time during the sort... they have to understand that we aren't getting [B]paid by the hour or OT [/B]to be out on the road driving up to 12-14 hours a day. ground, meh, i tend to stay away from their operations. i just don't like doubling back on the same streets for the various pickups/ deadlines. [/QUOTE]
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