Just asking...do you think using the methods causes you to run overallowed? Had this discussion with my sup once. He went into the office and came back with this 340 methods manual. I didn't read the whole thing, just a little bit. What I read was nothing but common sense. Just my opinion...what's yours.
It's not a question of running over or under, it's more that doing everything by the methods takes longer than "the other way". If management has gotten accustomed to the numbers on a particular route being generated by a guy who:
a)Comes to work an hour early to set his truck up stop for stop (off the clock)
b)works all day with the bulkhead door tied open with a DR bag
c)never turns the truck off, just uses the handbrake
d)works through his lunch and breaks
e)anything else you can think of (signs for his own business stops, etc..)
It goes without saying that they are going to be suspicious when a driver who uses the proper methods takes an hour or more longer to do the same amount of work when he runs that route.