PT Car Washer
Well-Known Member
Scan them before you are on the clock in the AM and pre record them. You are not getting paid but will make your numbers better. Just make sure that this will not DQ you. Ask a trusted veteran driver.
First Day Seasonal Driver “Training Route”
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NBROG39
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Thanks I will ask one of the drivers and will have to ask them how to do it.
That DIAD is confusing I can now successfully get logged in get route and driver release packages. Still don’t really know when I am supposed to scan pickups. 5 days of training on DIAD would have been more helpful than that virtual training.
If I had 17 NDA stops and one of them had a hundred letters, I would make that the last NDA stop. Once you scan the first one the rest are good.
NBROG39
Member
That’s funny manager told me exact opposite go to this customer first. It would be better to miss 1 customer with 1 NDA, instead of another customer with a 100+.
PT Car Washer
Well-Known Member
Driver training is terrible and even worse when your trainer was a preload or HR sup last week that was reassigned. Try and talk to the driver who is permeant on the route when it is not being used for training. Or other new guys who recently qualified on the same route. Their advice will be worth much more then most trainers. Run the route like you own it and in the most efficient and easy way. Don't be afraid to change things up to make the route run faster.Thanks I will ask one of the drivers and will have to ask them how to do it.
BuriedInCardboard
Active Member
That is ridiculous for a training route.
FYI next time they try to screw you with too many airs. Send a message through the board saying “Need Air help”. Cover yourself. Put the ball in their court.
FYI next time they try to screw you with too many airs. Send a message through the board saying “Need Air help”. Cover yourself. Put the ball in their court.
PT Car Washer
Well-Known Member
He is correct and that tells me that he expected to have late air. Whenever I have late air I blame it on being over dispatched with air. If you have late air because you had to sit through a red light, that is being over dispatched. There are a lot of things completely out of your control such as number of air stops or number of pieces or what time preload wraps and you can leave the building to weather and traffic conditions but management will still try to put the responsibility on you.
PT Car Washer
Well-Known Member
He had a training sup with him and that would be the sups responsibility to make that call. How should he know how long it takes to deliver 17 NDA stops?
DumbTruckDriver
Allergic to cardboard.
Leaving the bulk air stop for last is a good rule of thumb. Just make sure you get that big arrow down before 10:30.
PT Car Washer
Well-Known Member
I would agree. But for a newbie on his first day? Better to have 1 or 2 late envelopes than a hundred.
BuriedInCardboard
Active Member
You get to your 1st air with 30 mins before 10:30 and you have 17 of them. Common sense.
If you pull up to a stop and scan a NDA first at 10:30, that puts a time stamp on the delivery and every single package you scan after that will show 10:30. It wouldn't matter if you had one or 1000, they would all show up on time as long as the stop is active in the DIAD.
NBROG39
Member
That’s what my SUP said as well I would like to do this customer last of the NDA’s but my other daily NDA is a large membership warehouse that shall remain nameless. Which has 30-40 ground packages that usually contains 4-5 sets of tires every day that I also need to get off ASAP. Feels like I am dammed if I do and dammed if I don’t.
PT Car Washer
Well-Known Member
Send a PT air driver out on a business route and he comes back 13 hours later with a hundred missed business packages. Send the same air driver out a month later and he comes back 13 hours later with 50 missed business packages.
Whither
Scofflaw
I don't know how you managed you to get 16 air stops done in about 30 minutes -- no matter that it was in a tight area -- when your first stop had 100 envelopes.
PT Car Washer
Well-Known Member
If you deliver ground packages before getting all of your NDA off, there goes your excuse for being over dispatched. This time your training sup made the decision. Next time it will be your decision. What do you do?
Whither
Scofflaw
I know that stop
NBROG39
Member
Most were in four of five office buildings within a 1/4 mile of each other and 1 envelope each. Missed the last one by a few minutes.
SorryLazyPOS
Big Kahuna Burger
I wouldn’t do this. They can DQ you for working off the clock. DO NOT DO THIS. Who wants to work for free anyway?
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