Drivers Helpers Overtime?
- Thread starter Elixsor
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That's funny where are you getting your info ? Just wondering becauce I work on the city side of the springfield building and have yet to see a 300 stop count car when looking at the dispatch in the moring. It's also funny that at 3 pm we all get a message wanting to know what time we will be back to the building and if it later than 7:30 or 8 they send other driver to help. They are also given us specific length of times we can keep are helper.
With the larger number of helper and low volume this year they are actually cutting routes somedays
I did a S. Hadley / longmeadow split friday and was done at all my stops and lunch at 4:45 then I got sent to chicopee and took 18 stops off a driver.
Even with my 1 hr drive home after I punch out I get home before 8:00 pm
brownman15
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i have used my helper more than 8 hours
brownman15
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yes it is
Sounds like your district planned a little better than mine. We've got drivers working 11+ every day, and probably about half the center is already working 10+. I talked to the dispatch sup, he said that they had seriously underestimated the volume. We are already running 10% over what is supposed to be our max (peak day) plan for cars and drivers and xmas is still two weeks away. We've already had a day where they didn't even unload 2 full trailers and the building still rolled over 500 pieces that went on road (That's 500 pieces sheeted missed, not counting the two trailers that didn't even get unloaded). Monday is supposed to be a monster, I can hardly wait......
brownman15
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mine so far has been 360 stops and worked 12.5 hrs used helper about 8.5
brownman15
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i have been over 300 stops a few times already
I'm working today doing rails. Maybe six of us doing 4 apeice. Yup, should be a heavy Monday!
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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If your world includes fat chicks riding motorcycles, I will pass.
Yes they hired alot of helpers this year and almost all the drivers in our building get a helper that's over 120 helpers. Even the guys doing split routes get helpers which is nice. We start monday morning at 8:15 if we get there earlier and the preload is done loading we can leave I will be there at 7:45 and hopefully can be on the door at 8:00 or before.
brownman15
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about 120 miles
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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360 stops and 120 miles??
brownman15
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yes worked 12.5 hrs that day
brownman15
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this reply does not make any sense
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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To be honest your claim of 360 stops and 120 miles is hard to believe. That would nearly double both my highest stop count and mileage thus far this Peak.
brownman15
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its the truth. my first stop is 30 miles from center and i am all res and this is with part of my route taken off cause my route triples at peak. i normally do about 200 stops a day outside peak.
brownman15
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you cannot compare me to your route as every route and and every part of the country is different i am in a major metropolitan area houses are about 50 to 100 feet apart and i do have townhouses and row houses to
LOL, that was actually taken down around Cementups neck of the woods. If you look closely, she's the passenger.
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