I understand, we had 17 call-in's on friday....
High Seniority Lead Cover Drivers (jokes/trolling acceptable here)
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I understand, we had 17 call-in's on friday....
WorknLateHuh
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If we had that many call-in's we would have like 10 drivers left in the center, and 11 routes hanging
evilleace
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How many drivers in your center?
We have 12 FT Cover Drivers. The top cover driver comes in and picks from the available routes, then the second in seniority, and so on. There are usually 2-3 high seniority bid drivers that take dead days, so there are quite a few for the top person to choose from.
It used to be pretty smooth, but the top two or three have been on a power trip latley. They like to look through each load, look at stop counts, look at individual stops, and wait til the last minute to make a decision. Meanwhile the rest of the cover drivers have to sit and wait to sort out the rest. Not unusual for the bottom guy to find out what route he is running 10 minutes after start time.
It used to be pretty smooth, but the top two or three have been on a power trip latley. They like to look through each load, look at stop counts, look at individual stops, and wait til the last minute to make a decision. Meanwhile the rest of the cover drivers have to sit and wait to sort out the rest. Not unusual for the bottom guy to find out what route he is running 10 minutes after start time.
normally 55, during peak, we had 35 plus easy... hope they got some work!
govols019
You smell that?
That's kinda how we do it in our center. Our on-car will fill out the dispatch list putting cover guys where he thinks they'll want to be but if he gets it wrong there will be some bumping going on. Being the bottom guy when that starts can really suck.
WorknLateHuh
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Sometimes i stand around for 5 minutes after the pcm without a clue where im going
What does your supplement say about all this?
MC4YOU2
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I worked with a guy like that. He was a cover for 15 years, got used to cherry picking the easiest rt every day.
Finally bid a training rt. Soooo, they'd pull him off to train a new driver and he'd be covering again, picking whatever was easiest. When the training finished, they put him back on his bid.
But, on days where his bid was heavy, bulky, or just had crappy stops, he tried to give it back to the new rookie. They caught on to that and told him to stay put.
Catatonic
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WorknLateHuh
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It says i'm getting paid 35/hr to sit there and eat my granola bar while watching my frantic ORS run all over the place to find me a home. guaranteed 8 odd jobs works for me
Overpaid Union Thug
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No perks. It just means they pick first. We pick daily here.
9.5er
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We bid on uncovered routes the week before. If I don't win a bid for the week I am assigned to a route each day. Depends on call ins and personal days but I may be on 5 different routes any given week. Our Sup assigns each cover driver a route and rarely are we able to "bump" to a more preferred route. WAD is the usual response.
Overpaid Union Thug
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So much for seniority.
Like someone else said. We are a daily dispatch center. Every morning a Sup will put us on a route they think we will want to do to avoid to much bumping. Here seniority always prevails. You can bump a guy onto any route cold. I'm number 6 out of about 40 cover drivers. I'd say us top 7-8 cover drivers usually bump daily. I may never take a route. Why? when you can cherry pick daily 
. Weird thing is, bumping must be done before start time. After start time you're locked in
. Weird thing is, bumping must be done before start time. After start time you're locked inThe last time a heard a sup say no the stewards head just about exploded. Management backed down.
A few guys will sometimes wait til the last minute just to screw with management. They are also screwing everyone below them as well tho. People start scrambling. Sometimes it can be a cluster friend.
A few guys will sometimes wait til the last minute just to screw with management. They are also screwing everyone below them as well tho. People start scrambling. Sometimes it can be a cluster friend.
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