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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 144785" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>Item #1: AMEN, PREACH IT! Also totally agree about the automation, been there with that for over 10 years. I'm a huge believer in automation.</p><p> </p><p>Item #2: They have heard that one since Worldport is under expansion at this moment to almost double hourly capacity throughput. Go to the Plant Engineering Corp. Homepage and you'll see the details on that.</p><p> </p><p>Item #3: That move would be preceeded by making us private again. Wall Street would never tolerate cutting the dividend for company reinvestment. Buy back all the stock outside UPSer hands and hang anyone who opposes our will!</p><p><img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/tongue_smilie.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":tongue_sm" title="Tongue Smilie :tongue_sm" data-shortname=":tongue_sm" /> </p><p> </p><p>Item #4: I see conference calls as nothing more than non-operations people (can you say IE, Finance, Accounting) making work for themselves so they can justify their existence. Without the calls their need would either be most obvious or they would be forced out of the office and into the real world to not only see how things really are <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":-)" title="Smile :-)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":-)" />censored: up!) and to either join in and help fix them or don't let the door hit you on the way out.</p><p> </p><p>Item #5: Boy this is a tough one. The pros are several as it would allow the company to quickly react to a customer who waits until 6 pm to call for a delivery and under the current the system at that point only the badly overdispatched drivers are still out, (you know the ones that kill themselves and get dumped on even more by management) or the slackers who ride the dog for all it's worth (the reason the hardworkers are overdispatched) butthe point is let the drivers who have been at it all day get out and get home for a life and let the PT driver clean up the scraps till 9 pm plus. Under the current situation, you've got very late loads hitting the Twi/local sorts thus having a negative effect on time-n-transit network at the very beginning of the journey and it's those overworked hubs, either at the origin or at the intermediate hubs who really fell the ill effects of this. Intermediate hub with 30 unload doors and 130 total loads with 60 on property and able to process the first 2 hours of the sort and the remaining 70 loads not hitting property until the 3rd hour of the sort. Hey hub rats, sound familar? Also with PT drivers you could use this as a training ground for the future FT drivers. For the PT it would offer a kind of "route with training wheels" so that when they make the move FT it's an easier transition. You also place the PTer is some driver scenarios and you weed out the slugs up front with a longer window and more scenarios to observe the PTer's ability to do the job. </p><p> </p><p>The Con? Management abuse of using this mechanism not for what it was designed but rather as a tool to cover up their own lack of ability to manage a business. Cut a route and put 3 pters out on the road to cut cost or increase SPORH but in reality to the big picture it actually costs the company more money. You look good while you gut your partner downstream and the customer. Look above at that intermediate hub scenario again if you doubt that thinking. This all may sting somewhat but truth hurts pal!</p><p> </p><p>I really like every one of your ideas, it's just a damn shame you'll never be given the chance to try them out! Need more managers thinking like you.</p><p><img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/thumbup1.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":thumbup1:" title="Thumbup1 :thumbup1:" data-shortname=":thumbup1:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 144785, member: 2189"] Item #1: AMEN, PREACH IT! Also totally agree about the automation, been there with that for over 10 years. I'm a huge believer in automation. Item #2: They have heard that one since Worldport is under expansion at this moment to almost double hourly capacity throughput. Go to the Plant Engineering Corp. Homepage and you'll see the details on that. Item #3: That move would be preceeded by making us private again. Wall Street would never tolerate cutting the dividend for company reinvestment. Buy back all the stock outside UPSer hands and hang anyone who opposes our will! :tongue_sm Item #4: I see conference calls as nothing more than non-operations people (can you say IE, Finance, Accounting) making work for themselves so they can justify their existence. Without the calls their need would either be most obvious or they would be forced out of the office and into the real world to not only see how things really are (:censored: up!) and to either join in and help fix them or don't let the door hit you on the way out. Item #5: Boy this is a tough one. The pros are several as it would allow the company to quickly react to a customer who waits until 6 pm to call for a delivery and under the current the system at that point only the badly overdispatched drivers are still out, (you know the ones that kill themselves and get dumped on even more by management) or the slackers who ride the dog for all it's worth (the reason the hardworkers are overdispatched) butthe point is let the drivers who have been at it all day get out and get home for a life and let the PT driver clean up the scraps till 9 pm plus. Under the current situation, you've got very late loads hitting the Twi/local sorts thus having a negative effect on time-n-transit network at the very beginning of the journey and it's those overworked hubs, either at the origin or at the intermediate hubs who really fell the ill effects of this. Intermediate hub with 30 unload doors and 130 total loads with 60 on property and able to process the first 2 hours of the sort and the remaining 70 loads not hitting property until the 3rd hour of the sort. Hey hub rats, sound familar? Also with PT drivers you could use this as a training ground for the future FT drivers. For the PT it would offer a kind of "route with training wheels" so that when they make the move FT it's an easier transition. You also place the PTer is some driver scenarios and you weed out the slugs up front with a longer window and more scenarios to observe the PTer's ability to do the job. The Con? Management abuse of using this mechanism not for what it was designed but rather as a tool to cover up their own lack of ability to manage a business. Cut a route and put 3 pters out on the road to cut cost or increase SPORH but in reality to the big picture it actually costs the company more money. You look good while you gut your partner downstream and the customer. Look above at that intermediate hub scenario again if you doubt that thinking. This all may sting somewhat but truth hurts pal! I really like every one of your ideas, it's just a damn shame you'll never be given the chance to try them out! Need more managers thinking like you. :thumbup1: [/QUOTE]
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