browniehound
Well-Known Member
Dude, You hit the nail on the head with a sledge hammer. The route I've been covering is hacked and devistated daily and the dispatch lazily drag drops the pieces in random places on my trace or crams everything into my 8000's and leaves my 3000's empty. We have retards for dispatch. WHY AREN"T THEY HELD RESPONSABLE FOR THIS. If they're gonna add cut then at least tie it into a logical sequense. If multiple route are heavy then pull resi from each and run out a split car so we can Honor our commitment with our commercials and pick ups. Commercial and pick up.s should be priority. Don't drop a school or commercial at the last stop in 8000 inside add cut and expect a coverguy to catch it and pull it off.
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Hey Backlasher,
I love your post because it touched on another mishap that consistently happens where I'm from. I've worked in multiple centers and had routes or covered routes in many different towns yet one thing remains consistent about add/cuts or splits that I failed to mention but Backsasher brought up. That is every add/cut or split invariably has a school in it.
All of them! Why can't they choose a split without a school? The dispatch sup. loves to play dumb and claim he is ignorant(hello, its your job? to the school locations. So we have this all the time: a split out of the driver's normal area with a school getting 15 cases of books.
When is he supposed to do it? He has his own businesses to do, then the 12-1 lunch hour that businesses can't be attempted unless you like taking your chances and wasting your time hoping someone will be there. Then there is your lunch that must be taken between the 4th and 5th hour (1245-1345 here) and pickups start at 1500(in this scenario).
It would come down to breaking at 1345 but school is out at 1400 and cars are lined in the street. Perhaps he can break at 1630 when pick-ups are done but most likely all 15 pieces will be sheeted as closed. Just what UPS wants, right? 15 send-agains that will be move to another car the next morning because the dispatch has changed again? And of course 1 or 2 will be left on the other truck causing some of the problems in my first post.
To summarize we are always stuck with a split that always has a school in it. It just causes problems for more then one driver and it happens everyday. Breaking trace to deliver schools that would be easier and delivered on trace by the initial driver.
Again, just leave the routes alone is my new mantra. Why can't they just leave them alone? it would eliminate all the above issues?