Thanks Mike You are my hero!!!!!!!!!!Click the multiquote button next to the quote button, it will change from "multiquote off" to "multiquote on". Do that on the posts you want to quote then on the last one just hit quote, they should all be there in the response box.
The first step is to have a management staff that is as dedicated to solving these problems as most drivers are in servicing their customers.
The problem I see is that it is hard to have a dedicated manager when they are being told what to do and when. When they are being told how many drivers to dispatch regardless of volume. When they are catching grief constantly from both ends. I'm not saying I'd be any different in that situation.
My thought is that if you are going to pay someone to be a manager....then let him/her manage.
I have no doubt that all the things you discuss can be done. I'm just hesitatant to think that they will or ever could be accomplished in the enviroment that exists today.
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Well then thats understandable....in my district the lunch is no longer taken out. I you dont record your lunch and still take one than that is stealing. It hurts the guys around you and the company as a whole. I am led to believe that all automatic lunches will be a thing of the past soon. If you having an hour lunch taken out of your timecard(and who really needs an hour anyway?) and decide to work through most of it at least you may recoupe some of that time through bonus.Please explain that to me. How can not recording a lunch be stealing time? The required meal time is automatically taken out of your day, in my area that's an hour.
I work in CA. and was a recepient of the class action lawsuit. When I punch out for lunch the DIAD is disabled so no work can be perfomed. Is this mode in the DIAD nationwide or just in CA?
I work in CA. and was a recepient of the class action lawsuit. When I punch out for lunch the DIAD is disabled so no work can be perfomed. Is this mode in the DIAD nationwide or just in CA?
If we don't take a lunch between the 4th & 5th hour we are in violation with California labor law which could result in a chat with steward and mgmt with a possible warning letter. There is actually a mgmt job called meal check which that person goes through our DIADS to make sure we are in compliance
im in arizona and our boards aren't disabled when we punch out for lunch. we are also allowed five minutes break for every hour we work after 3.5 hours.I work in CA. and was a recepient of the class action lawsuit. When I punch out for lunch the DIAD is disabled so no work can be perfomed. Is this mode in the DIAD nationwide or just in CA?
Our center OMSs can now see when we take our lunches, where our stops were completed, what is left in EDD..ect. It's actually quite cool to see. Our OMSs sends on calls to the closest driver by using the GPS instead of guessing. It has pretty much stopped drivers from overriding them. We've always had a few that would just flat out refuse them because they didn't want to back track. Or simply because they din't want to make the pickup.
Its cool but here is a problem that I ran into today.
I received an OCA that had 10 packages while delivering another NXDA across the street. To complete this stop I would have to have filled out 10 ASD's.
It was after 11:30 and I still had a 25 minute drive to get my last NXDA with a 12:00 commit.
You can't always stop right then and get an OCA even if you are the closest. This cost me a trip back later and that was about a 6 mile round trip. You still have to push the NXDA deadline and pickup times later in the day. All that the OMS can see is your position, not what is happening. This will be a major flaw in the system.