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<blockquote data-quote="BrownArmy" data-source="post: 728444" data-attributes="member: 18225"><p>Start time for the PCM at my center is 8:45. I rarely leave before 9:00.</p><p></p><p>Off topic (or maybe not), but I have to say these last-minute add/cuts are killing me, and today was a great example.</p><p></p><p>I'm a cover driver...last week and this week, covering the same route for a driver out on vacation.</p><p></p><p>I know that the add/cuts must have happened at the last minute, because there's no way my center team would ever PLAN for this route to be as 'circus' as it was today.</p><p></p><p>I think my route was add/cutted at least twice, maybe three times. </p><p></p><p>I had four misloads from two other routes (don't want to blame the preload, evidently the chap loading my truck got hurt, something about his arm, details are sketchy, etc. etc.).</p><p></p><p>There were also a bunch of add/cuts that didn't make the cut...I find four packages PAL'd to my car that should have been moved and re-PAL'd, but that didn't happen.</p><p></p><p>At the last minute, thirty stops were cut and thirty other stops added, from the next town over. No problem, most of the time, except that when the trucks are almost fully loaded this is a logistical nightmare.</p><p></p><p>So now my 700 is a Frankenstein-load of at least three different routes (five, counting the misloads).</p><p></p><p>Four stops that were supposed to be cut remained (but not in EDD), and seven stops I was supposed to have never materialized - I love wasting time looking through my clown-car load hunting a stop that isn't there. </p><p></p><p>(But I can't blame the preload - it's not their fault - one day last week I had 65 stops from a last minute add/cut all PAL'd as 1299. How can the loaders possibly make sense of that lunacy? So now there's 82 pieces all PAL'D as 1299 spread evenly throughout my truck since it happened at the last minute...).</p><p></p><p>Can anyone explain the method to this madness?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrownArmy, post: 728444, member: 18225"] Start time for the PCM at my center is 8:45. I rarely leave before 9:00. Off topic (or maybe not), but I have to say these last-minute add/cuts are killing me, and today was a great example. I'm a cover driver...last week and this week, covering the same route for a driver out on vacation. I know that the add/cuts must have happened at the last minute, because there's no way my center team would ever PLAN for this route to be as 'circus' as it was today. I think my route was add/cutted at least twice, maybe three times. I had four misloads from two other routes (don't want to blame the preload, evidently the chap loading my truck got hurt, something about his arm, details are sketchy, etc. etc.). There were also a bunch of add/cuts that didn't make the cut...I find four packages PAL'd to my car that should have been moved and re-PAL'd, but that didn't happen. At the last minute, thirty stops were cut and thirty other stops added, from the next town over. No problem, most of the time, except that when the trucks are almost fully loaded this is a logistical nightmare. So now my 700 is a Frankenstein-load of at least three different routes (five, counting the misloads). Four stops that were supposed to be cut remained (but not in EDD), and seven stops I was supposed to have never materialized - I love wasting time looking through my clown-car load hunting a stop that isn't there. (But I can't blame the preload - it's not their fault - one day last week I had 65 stops from a last minute add/cut all PAL'd as 1299. How can the loaders possibly make sense of that lunacy? So now there's 82 pieces all PAL'D as 1299 spread evenly throughout my truck since it happened at the last minute...). Can anyone explain the method to this madness? [/QUOTE]
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