How many are rolling stops?

[Ellyjobell]

Friday was a mess at my hub. We didnt leave the building until after noon and were called back to the hub in waves from 5 or so until about 8. All packages brought back were sheeted as missed.

Drivers with no hours left this morning were used as helpers. Anyone with a light load were directed to help those with more stops after they finished.

 

[eats packages]

Friday was a mess at my hub. We didnt leave the building until after noon and were called back to the hub in waves from 5 or so until about 8. All packages brought back were sheeted as missed.

Drivers with no hours left this morning were used as helpers. Anyone with a light load were directed to help those with more stops after they finished.

This peak legitimately looks better on my end
But the problem is... the operation is larger now and we are beginning to roll pieces for a small portion of specific routes that got pounded by their preloader (or dispatcher) .
And our PT workforce is still spread very thin to accomidate the extra routes.

 

[LeftRS1]

of course you have to direct the sup were to drive. most pt. sups have a hard enough time finding thier way around the building let alone houses on route

Do you direct them via ODO? I would give em a taste.

 

[burrheadd]

We received the pep talk from the top person before the start of this week on how we had more drivers and capacity and a better plan. I don't know. I wasn't bringing back stops by the dozens like I was for the first few days during that first week of peak last year, but the leave building times were as bad or worse and if someone didn't have to come pick up my NDA so I could stay out and try to finish it was the other way around. Today, we had guys who had as little as 4 hrs short of the 60hr cutoff come in to try and help bridge the gap on the Saturday crew and we came nowhere near getting it all done.

Last year, the second and third weeks here went a little better largely because Amazon diverted volume elsewhere before a brutal final week. This year? I feel we may need a repeat of that because if we were to see even one major snow accumulation, I'm pretty sure the wheels would fall off completely. Untrained loaders with sups telling them to just throw the stuff into the car for the sake of keeping the belt clean produces some extremely angry confrontations between drivers and management.

We might have made it out of the first week this time around better from a numbers or metrics standpoint (Emphasis on the "might" part). But if this second week doesn't go off a little more smooth then I think some of the hourlies and even some management could lose it pretty quickly because a lot of things that people were told wouldn't go wrong again went wrong again.

“Management could lose it pretty quickly”

No way

 

[Two Tokes]

We had missed stops several days this week. Thousands missed on Friday. What is your bldg like?

Not many missed stops So far so good
We seem to have way to many drivers

 

[burrheadd]

Not many missed stops So far so good
We seem to have way to many drivers

Then keep on Tokin

 

[Shift 2]

That is because someone gave the ok to have all the missed to be sheeted as E/C. Something is working. Lmfao.

Or future

 

[BakerMayfield2018]

Or future

That I refuse 2 do. They have tried to tell me to do that several times. I tell them that is dishonesty and I will not do it.

 

[Netsua 3:16]

I would have rolled 100 last night if not for an "all hands on deck" rescue at 900 pm. 450 pkgs in a p5 entire shelves with the same vin so for instance I had 50 or so pkgs that took up 3/4 of my 1/5000 shelf, about 30 stops worth, all with a 5000 vin. Left all my irregs for the shuttle guy, just when I finally get enough pkgs off to sort now I literally can't walk through the thing. 13.50 hr planned day with a helper, there was a stretch with him that had 50 country rural stops 5-10 mins apart. Easiest driver helpet day ever. Good times

 

[Maple Grove MN Driver]

This peak legitimately looks better on my end
But the problem is... the operation is larger now and we are beginning to roll pieces for a small portion of specific routes that got pounded by their preloader (or dispatcher) .
And our PT workforce is still spread very thin to accomidate the extra routes.

The pre loader has zero to do with the dispatch.
Your post makes almost zero sense

 

[Shift Inhibit]

The pre loader has zero to do with the dispatch.
Your post makes almost zero sense

He means the loader is giving the driver a Helen Keller load. driver is working longer days, digging for stops in an already bricked out car thus creating a snowball effect resulting in having to roll volume for that route due to missed pieces. When my regular loader is on vacation, I end up working around 4 hours longer for the week.

 

[brostalss]

Really not missing package this year.

 

[mixyo]

We flew in management people from other states to deliver packages for our facility this week. Every day was a disaster. We got buried, just like last year.

 

[Two Tokes]

Then keep on Tokin

That's right
Worked 59 hours this week with 3 more on the way
Will hit 6 figures for the year for the first time
I will have to celebrate by doubling down on some of that sweet sheet

 

[Two Tokes]

I would have rolled 100 last night if not for an "all hands on deck" rescue at 900 pm. 450 pkgs in a p5 entire shelves with the same vin so for instance I had 50 or so pkgs that took up 3/4 of my 1/5000 shelf, about 30 stops worth, all with a 5000 vin. Left all my irregs for the shuttle guy, just when I finally get enough pkgs off to sort now I literally can't walk through the thing. 13.50 hr planned day with a helper, there was a stretch with him that had 50 country rural stops 5-10 mins apart. Easiest driver helpet day ever. Good times

Love when they do that
I had one neighborhood loaded on the 1000 4000 and 8000 section

 

[Two Tokes]

We flew in management people from other states to deliver packages for our facility this week. Every day was a disaster. We got buried, just like last year.

What state are you in

 

[DumbTruckDriver]

The pre loader has zero to do with the dispatch.
Your post makes almost zero sense

We have seasonal preloaders who’s entire training seems to have been “put packages in package car.” The load has killed some guys days.

 

[Richard Harrow]

Service failures are down 98% year over year, so something is working.

I rolled 15 stops/20 pieces on Thursday night. Upon return to the center I asked my sup. for a hand scanner to which the reply was "we're not doing that this year".

Now I know why lol.

 

[Netsua 3:16]

Love when they do that
I had one neighborhood loaded on the 1000 4000 and 8000 section

Yup, and the bid driver for several neigborhoods I was in has addressed orion dispatch problems so you kind of have to run it Orion (it actually works great in those particular areas), but it had me jumping across shelves when I couldn't take 3 steps into the truck. I know we're gonna have 12 hour days and I have no problem with that but we're not gonna get through this peak if we have to fight the load and dispatch all day. I'm good with keeping my cool and I almost lost my shi* several times this week digging for pkgs and going back over the whole route at night when the ones you couldn't find pop up. If I can't sort, I can't work. Just spinning wheels out there

 

[babboo25]

The pre loader has zero to do with the dispatch.
Your post makes almost zero sense

What? Dam you are dumb!!!!