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Just started seasonally, feel like I'm on too difficult a route. Suggestions?
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<blockquote data-quote="HxC MADxMAN" data-source="post: 1935677" data-attributes="member: 60371"><p>I just finished my second week driving on my own, so I'll share a few things I learned. </p><p></p><p>For bulk stops, see if they have a big flat cart that you could use. A good amount of my bulk stops have huge 3' x 5' carts that turn 4 trips from the cart in my truck, into 1.</p><p></p><p>Try to save time by avoiding handling the packages an unnecessary amount of times. At the beginning, I found I was wasting time moving through my truck too much and moving boxes too many times on their way to my cart. </p><p></p><p>Try to set yourself up for quick scans. I wasted so much time picking up and setting down my DIAD multiple times at the same stop. Now I go through and scan all the packages for the stop in one go before I've started moving them from my truck. Each cart load, I'll count the boxes while I'm wheeling them in to make sure it all adds up to how many I scanned, rather than standing there at the end and counting up all the stacks. Or load them on the cart in a way that you can scan them all without walking around the stack or moving boxes to find labels.</p><p></p><p>Those are the parts that slowed me down at bulk stops, and they may or may not be areas that you need help with, just throwing ideas out there. It's suprising how many little things can save time, and it all adds up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HxC MADxMAN, post: 1935677, member: 60371"] I just finished my second week driving on my own, so I'll share a few things I learned. For bulk stops, see if they have a big flat cart that you could use. A good amount of my bulk stops have huge 3' x 5' carts that turn 4 trips from the cart in my truck, into 1. Try to save time by avoiding handling the packages an unnecessary amount of times. At the beginning, I found I was wasting time moving through my truck too much and moving boxes too many times on their way to my cart. Try to set yourself up for quick scans. I wasted so much time picking up and setting down my DIAD multiple times at the same stop. Now I go through and scan all the packages for the stop in one go before I've started moving them from my truck. Each cart load, I'll count the boxes while I'm wheeling them in to make sure it all adds up to how many I scanned, rather than standing there at the end and counting up all the stacks. Or load them on the cart in a way that you can scan them all without walking around the stack or moving boxes to find labels. Those are the parts that slowed me down at bulk stops, and they may or may not be areas that you need help with, just throwing ideas out there. It's suprising how many little things can save time, and it all adds up. [/QUOTE]
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