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<blockquote data-quote="AKCoverMan" data-source="post: 408469" data-attributes="member: 17867"><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Again. I get that. I am NOT trying to change anyones route. I am trying to make EDD match the way the regular driver runs the route. We are not a large center, any of the things I want to change the regular route driver wants to change also. I would never suggest anything be changed without talking to the regular route driver first.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">But I am talking about stops that show up in sequence but can't be run that way becuase a street does not go thru etc. New streets that are not even in the DOL yet. (These stops come down the belt after PCM with PAL labels that say "</span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">NIS</span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">" Not in System and we scramble to figure out which car should take them, then have to remeber them during the day since they are not in EDD. Also I am talking about collecting data and setting up consignee records for multiple stop addresses. Some are built well, some have not been updated for years, and some have not been built at all. So when I cover the 01D route and get to the strip mall at </span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">549 W International Airport Road</span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> I have to stop and dig all the packages out of FL4 and sort them out by stop. I am guessing there is zero allowed time for this, and I know that it means inaccurate stop counts in the morning.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Some people have gotten to the stage that they just wont even bother to tell the center to fix these things; I would rather try to solve these issues than just sit around before PCM and bitch about it with other drivers.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The problem is the regular drivers after a few months have learned where the problems are on the trace and simply skip around and do it in the order that makes sense. Then cover drivers come along and totally fall down on the route becuase they are trying to follow "trace". On a route I covered last week I literally drove be the same place five times following "trace" thru a couple of neighborhoods. I know thru conversations with the bid driver that he does not follow trace on this section, so I am not going to screw him up by trying to work with the center to fix EDD. BTW the bid driver is a remote start who only sees the inside of the center a few times a year. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I just don't buy the idea that these problems should not be addressed simply becuase I don't "own" the route. I am pretty sure the logo on my uniform is the same as the bid drivers. I am not working against him/her.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AKCoverMan, post: 408469, member: 17867"] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Again. I get that. I am NOT trying to change anyones route. I am trying to make EDD match the way the regular driver runs the route. We are not a large center, any of the things I want to change the regular route driver wants to change also. I would never suggest anything be changed without talking to the regular route driver first.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]But I am talking about stops that show up in sequence but can't be run that way becuase a street does not go thru etc. New streets that are not even in the DOL yet. (These stops come down the belt after PCM with PAL labels that say "[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]NIS[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]" Not in System and we scramble to figure out which car should take them, then have to remeber them during the day since they are not in EDD. Also I am talking about collecting data and setting up consignee records for multiple stop addresses. Some are built well, some have not been updated for years, and some have not been built at all. So when I cover the 01D route and get to the strip mall at [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]549 W International Airport Road[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] I have to stop and dig all the packages out of FL4 and sort them out by stop. I am guessing there is zero allowed time for this, and I know that it means inaccurate stop counts in the morning.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Some people have gotten to the stage that they just wont even bother to tell the center to fix these things; I would rather try to solve these issues than just sit around before PCM and bitch about it with other drivers.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]The problem is the regular drivers after a few months have learned where the problems are on the trace and simply skip around and do it in the order that makes sense. Then cover drivers come along and totally fall down on the route becuase they are trying to follow "trace". On a route I covered last week I literally drove be the same place five times following "trace" thru a couple of neighborhoods. I know thru conversations with the bid driver that he does not follow trace on this section, so I am not going to screw him up by trying to work with the center to fix EDD. BTW the bid driver is a remote start who only sees the inside of the center a few times a year. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]I just don't buy the idea that these problems should not be addressed simply becuase I don't "own" the route. I am pretty sure the logo on my uniform is the same as the bid drivers. I am not working against him/her.[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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