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<blockquote data-quote="Fullhouse" data-source="post: 1006458" data-attributes="member: 9653"><p>340 methods maybe old school but the revised 340-E methods are what they are using now. I'm a steward at my building and i find myself in a new battle with managment about these so called methods. UUPS is now issuing disapline to drivers who fail to met a certain SPORH on a weekly average. The claim is if a driver runs below his SPOHR he must not be using his methods.</p><p>Just 2 days agao a warning letter was issued to a driver because he ran 2 stops below he SPORH. They claimed he did not use proper methods. I asked the center manager if he was going to identify which methods he failed to perform and hisreply was "no". The center manager even admitted they did not perform any observations on this driver and they are basing the disapline on what the operation report showed.</p><p>Now I have managed to get a printed copy of the 340-E methods from a driver supervisor who just happen to be covering for a center manager while he was on vacation. I have read these methods in detail and I have discovered that several of the methods are never mentioned during a so called production ride. In all there are 74 pages the mehtods handbook. </p><p></p><p>UPS seems to have thrownout the past practice of time allownces and have now shifted their sights on stops per hour. UPS is now performing three rides with drivers inorder to get a 3 day average and are trying to lock these drivers into a certain SPOHR for their run.</p><p>If your center does this I wish to give some tips on just how the UPS managment team are able to tip the SPOHR in their favor.</p><p>1. They can lower the dispatch so much, they will take a UPS store or a late pick up off of you so you will not have to wait arround before it is time to make the pick up.</p><p>2. They will take off business stops and replace those stops with the same amount of residential stops.(easy driver release)</p><p>3. If you have NDA commit times they will take off the "out of the way NDA"" so your miles will be cut and you can then start your ground deliveries earlier and they will not inform you of what they did. </p><p>4. They will not ask you to obey the speedlimit, that is up to you. </p><p>5. they will not write you up, if you skip methods. ie (load maintinance, proper pre trips and post trips, correct driver release methods) one surprise in the methods was shipper release Business stops are to be treated as a regular business stops (signature). Now if the business is closed a Shipper release pkg can then left.</p><p>6 Dont let a supervisor tell you to leave the bulk head door open during a delivery stop even if the pkg car is in plain sight.</p><p>7 don't let a superisor offer any assitance what so ever, once they have ther average SPORH they will lock you in!</p><p>8 dont fall for the over 70 bs that you have to solicit help from the people you are delivering to. The methods clearly state that you may ask for assistance from a fellow employee. Management just happeneds to forget that part of the over 70 method. </p><p>9. They have shown a habit of taking off bulk stops that a driver would normally get and give them to another driver when performing their so called performance rides.</p><p></p><p>Thes are just some of the antics that our managment team are up to, just to get the SPOHR as high as they can get it. Watch them like a HAWK!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fullhouse, post: 1006458, member: 9653"] 340 methods maybe old school but the revised 340-E methods are what they are using now. I'm a steward at my building and i find myself in a new battle with managment about these so called methods. UUPS is now issuing disapline to drivers who fail to met a certain SPORH on a weekly average. The claim is if a driver runs below his SPOHR he must not be using his methods. Just 2 days agao a warning letter was issued to a driver because he ran 2 stops below he SPORH. They claimed he did not use proper methods. I asked the center manager if he was going to identify which methods he failed to perform and hisreply was "no". The center manager even admitted they did not perform any observations on this driver and they are basing the disapline on what the operation report showed. Now I have managed to get a printed copy of the 340-E methods from a driver supervisor who just happen to be covering for a center manager while he was on vacation. I have read these methods in detail and I have discovered that several of the methods are never mentioned during a so called production ride. In all there are 74 pages the mehtods handbook. UPS seems to have thrownout the past practice of time allownces and have now shifted their sights on stops per hour. UPS is now performing three rides with drivers inorder to get a 3 day average and are trying to lock these drivers into a certain SPOHR for their run. If your center does this I wish to give some tips on just how the UPS managment team are able to tip the SPOHR in their favor. 1. They can lower the dispatch so much, they will take a UPS store or a late pick up off of you so you will not have to wait arround before it is time to make the pick up. 2. They will take off business stops and replace those stops with the same amount of residential stops.(easy driver release) 3. If you have NDA commit times they will take off the "out of the way NDA"" so your miles will be cut and you can then start your ground deliveries earlier and they will not inform you of what they did. 4. They will not ask you to obey the speedlimit, that is up to you. 5. they will not write you up, if you skip methods. ie (load maintinance, proper pre trips and post trips, correct driver release methods) one surprise in the methods was shipper release Business stops are to be treated as a regular business stops (signature). Now if the business is closed a Shipper release pkg can then left. 6 Dont let a supervisor tell you to leave the bulk head door open during a delivery stop even if the pkg car is in plain sight. 7 don't let a superisor offer any assitance what so ever, once they have ther average SPORH they will lock you in! 8 dont fall for the over 70 bs that you have to solicit help from the people you are delivering to. The methods clearly state that you may ask for assistance from a fellow employee. Management just happeneds to forget that part of the over 70 method. 9. They have shown a habit of taking off bulk stops that a driver would normally get and give them to another driver when performing their so called performance rides. Thes are just some of the antics that our managment team are up to, just to get the SPOHR as high as they can get it. Watch them like a HAWK! [/QUOTE]
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