Let me ask this, are you paid for your time to go to the dispatcher or whoever to "fix" these routes? Also I'm curious as to who you talk to about this. I know when I go to my dispatcher because I have no 7 or 8000 section for 3 or more weeks and 160 stops are crammed into 6 sections my pleas for help fall on deaf ears. I'm told that the loader should know to "snake the load".(yeah right) Maybe you can enlighten me as to how you get things done on other drivers rtes when I can't even get my load done right. Forget about setting EDD up stop for stop.
This is the exact point being missed by some (UpState).
Most of us aren't in a center where things work as they should.
Very few of us enjoy an effective support network within our managerial ranks.
When the apathy starts at the top, why wouldn't it trickle down?
In my center the "squeeky wheel" system is full affect, a system in which I excel.
My DOL is for the most part in good order, but would not be had I not made the dispatch supe miserable for countless mornings till it was.
Not many have that type of fortitude, hence the attitudes you read in this thread.
So to UpState and Dilli who seem to be in a better place than most, be thankful and little less judgemental towards those less fortunate.
P.S. I don't however subscribe to the notion of sabatoging the system in order to further our value as a Teamster.