P-man,
I abbreviated your response to the part that I want to respond to. If you would do that for me, I would run through a brick wall for you. This may sound extreme, but I can't get any of my complaints heard, so its like I'm banging my head against a wall.
Let's say you approach me every morning and inform me I'm 7/10's paid over everyday. Now, this happened to me in real life. When I'm told this I say something like "well I had 2 stops on my truck that were part of an add/cut section, but the dispacth sup left them in my edd(not preloader's fault) that are off area.
Next, you still stuff a bulk stop (35+) packages in section 3000 when I asked repeatedly to put it in section 6900. So now the preloader is stuck with throwing packages that should be loaded stop-for-stop on the floor.
The response I get from the dispatch sup. was "yeah, the reason it was in section 3000 is because I need to change your load for every car-plan"
My question is "Why don't you just do that?????" Isn't that his job?
P-man, all I want from my superiors is to fix things with my route that are inefficent for me. If my EDD is set up inefficently and my load is not properly set correctly then my performance is going to suffer. I say over and over again what is hurting me, yet nobody wants to fix it. Why? I handed my DOL 3 years ago the way I wanted it run. Numbers breaks down to the T, yet nothing was ever changed.
Ok, maybe the sup didn't want me running the route that way(my only guess), but he could have set it up his way but use my number breaks to do it his way. He didn't even do that.
Now, while I'm on the subject of criticizing the dispatch sup., I'm going to make a point to show how clueless he is. Maybe he doesn't listen to us because many of have told him he should get a map
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His major blunder is having 2 drivers deliver 1 section. I'm talking about splits in which there is only one way in and that is the only way out. This idiot is splting the section and sending 2 drivers down the same street. I'm thinking the point of the EDD systen is to save fuel and reduce miles and labor costs. I'm not a dispatch sup., but I know enough as a driver that sending 2 drivers down then same street is not accomplishing our goals
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My solution? Put somebody who knows the routes in this dispatch position. Have the dispacth sup. ride with each driver for a day so he can see the things that don't show up on a map.
P-man, why can't these simple things be accomplished? There has to be a reason. If there is no reason then I can only come to 2 conclusions. The people running the business at the center level are total idiots ( I don't believe this) or our managers above the center level feel no threat from the competition (but claim there is a threat in every PCM), that we can run our business anyway we choose.
We all know our customers get mad at UPS managment. Our most profitable stops want their stuff before noon, yet we deliver them at 5:17 and the cleaning lady signed for the stuff. Doesn't matter to UPS becuase the packages were serviced at 5:17.
Problem is in reality those packaes were missed. Yes, they were signed for, but everyone at that business went home for the day. Does UPS care about service? NO, of course not, they care that the parcels were signed for the day that our company garuanteed our customers delivery.
I'm not saying this is great business sense. Just don't tell me you care about the customer when you stick a split on me in section 8700 with 5 packages for a school. When I message the center, you tell me to find a janitor
. Fine, but those packages were for people other than the janitor
. Are you saying that is making service?