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<blockquote data-quote="pickup" data-source="post: 1422931"><p>I paid closer attention to my ivis today. I didn't do any cpus , but I can add some more to this discussion.</p><p></p><p>First of all, I mistakenly said in my other post, that late dispatch is not an option on the ivis in the truck. Well when after clicking "other work" and then "end other work"( after 30 minutes) for a rail yard delay, I looked at all the options, and late dispatch was there , so I learned something that can come in handy when they take twenty minutes to figure out what to do with me next when I am on property.</p><p></p><p>Other options were (the best I can recall were : air ramp delay(i use that at the airport), rail yard delay(which I used today, explained above, didn't come off other work and then add the reason until I hit the kingpin of the trailer I was assigned).</p><p></p><p>We also have "Held by Customer" , which is used for Cpus . As mentioned before, you can only use that for a TA swap at a customer. A live pickup(options, then pickup) does not allow you to go on other work in order to use the "Held by Customer" option. Very silly. It drives our bean counter management staff crazy as it shows up as unassigned wasted time. Using the pickup option also locks you out of the message center option so you can not inform (via the ivis) dispatch of an ongoing delay at a customer when doing a a live pickup.</p><p></p><p>Also, when doing cpus and a live pu or a swap, you are pulling a trailer off of the hub/center property. Often enough, you have to clean out the skids from the trailer onto a skid dock. You go on "Other Work" and when finished and back in the tractor, hit "End Other Work" and then "Non Feeder" the bottom option is Washer( I believe, not the top one which is Wash or Car Wash( can't remember)) . This accounts for your time cleaning out the trailer. If you have an absolute mess in there with 25 skids and a ton of cardboard and plastic , take a picture to document for the possible questioning later about why it took you 35 minutes to clean out a trailer. You can capture the number of trailer on the inside with correct positioning of the camera.</p><p></p><p>Now onto "Schedule Edit", this can be found and accessed when hitting "Options" . This can be somewhat confusing and misleading. Many jobs have skeleton assignments added onto your schedule before you even punch in. One clue that the assignment has yet to materialize is that the trailer number is missing. However, the skeleton assignment that throws many a newbie off is when you "bobtail"(tractor only) to a rail yard to (seemingly) pick up a load when you get there. So you dutifully follow your outbound assignment from your hub or center. It just has the eloc of a rail yard and off you go. You get to the rail yard, hit "ta" and eventually you make your way to the outbound load and see some thing like</p><p></p><p>ELOC: 1069</p><p></p><p>Trailer number/container: </p><p></p><p>DAVIA N SVANY D 1 </p><p></p><p>Hmm. You are missing your trailer number, you call up dispatch and they tell you that you had no business going to the rail yard as no train has arrived.</p><p>To avoid this sort of thing, check your schedule edit and scroll down and see if an actual load is coming out of that rail yard. If no trailer number exists and no one in dispatch verbally told you to go there , don't go.. If unsure, contact dispatch.</p><p></p><p>And again, when on a live pickup, you lose the ability to access and view Schedule Edit so they can send you an assignment while doing a live pickup, but you won't see it until you close out the pickup.</p><p></p><p>I can go on, but enough for tonight.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pickup, post: 1422931"] I paid closer attention to my ivis today. I didn't do any cpus , but I can add some more to this discussion. First of all, I mistakenly said in my other post, that late dispatch is not an option on the ivis in the truck. Well when after clicking "other work" and then "end other work"( after 30 minutes) for a rail yard delay, I looked at all the options, and late dispatch was there , so I learned something that can come in handy when they take twenty minutes to figure out what to do with me next when I am on property. Other options were (the best I can recall were : air ramp delay(i use that at the airport), rail yard delay(which I used today, explained above, didn't come off other work and then add the reason until I hit the kingpin of the trailer I was assigned). We also have "Held by Customer" , which is used for Cpus . As mentioned before, you can only use that for a TA swap at a customer. A live pickup(options, then pickup) does not allow you to go on other work in order to use the "Held by Customer" option. Very silly. It drives our bean counter management staff crazy as it shows up as unassigned wasted time. Using the pickup option also locks you out of the message center option so you can not inform (via the ivis) dispatch of an ongoing delay at a customer when doing a a live pickup. Also, when doing cpus and a live pu or a swap, you are pulling a trailer off of the hub/center property. Often enough, you have to clean out the skids from the trailer onto a skid dock. You go on "Other Work" and when finished and back in the tractor, hit "End Other Work" and then "Non Feeder" the bottom option is Washer( I believe, not the top one which is Wash or Car Wash( can't remember)) . This accounts for your time cleaning out the trailer. If you have an absolute mess in there with 25 skids and a ton of cardboard and plastic , take a picture to document for the possible questioning later about why it took you 35 minutes to clean out a trailer. You can capture the number of trailer on the inside with correct positioning of the camera. Now onto "Schedule Edit", this can be found and accessed when hitting "Options" . This can be somewhat confusing and misleading. Many jobs have skeleton assignments added onto your schedule before you even punch in. One clue that the assignment has yet to materialize is that the trailer number is missing. However, the skeleton assignment that throws many a newbie off is when you "bobtail"(tractor only) to a rail yard to (seemingly) pick up a load when you get there. So you dutifully follow your outbound assignment from your hub or center. It just has the eloc of a rail yard and off you go. You get to the rail yard, hit "ta" and eventually you make your way to the outbound load and see some thing like ELOC: 1069 Trailer number/container: DAVIA N SVANY D 1 Hmm. You are missing your trailer number, you call up dispatch and they tell you that you had no business going to the rail yard as no train has arrived. To avoid this sort of thing, check your schedule edit and scroll down and see if an actual load is coming out of that rail yard. If no trailer number exists and no one in dispatch verbally told you to go there , don't go.. If unsure, contact dispatch. And again, when on a live pickup, you lose the ability to access and view Schedule Edit so they can send you an assignment while doing a live pickup, but you won't see it until you close out the pickup. I can go on, but enough for tonight. [/QUOTE]
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