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Good idea. Mgmnt. and BD get on it.
Maybe we should all get on it
Good idea. Mgmnt. and BD get on it.
HERE, I believe you cannot bump just anyone unless your route is cut for 14 days. You ALWAYS can have your guaranteed 8. If no-one wanted the day, they would have to lay off the bottom man so you could do his route.
Its my understanding you can bump anyone with lower senoirity for the day, any day. Even if it means bumping a driver off his bid route for the day.
Also, you might be "forced" to bump the lowest senoirity driver working that day.
You want time and a half for the whole day? Boy you are funny!
Just a thought....wouldn't it be a lot easier to try to grow the business so routes would not have to be cut.
Just a thought....wouldn't it be a lot easier to try to grow the business so routes would not have to be cut.
Would be nice if it actually worked that way. That made me laugh. Thanks.
Glad you enjoy my humor, upstate!! Let 'em cut your route and see how you like it!!!K
I have four active sales leads all generating volume. It's not that hard to find and submit a sales lead.
I have four active sales leads all generating volume. It's not that hard to find and submit a sales lead.
My point was if I added those 4 p/ups to my route UPS wouldnt take off any stops and give them to someone else. They never take off stops when you add volume to your route in my experience anyway. So IMO p/ups added wont keep routes from being cut unless your speaking of extra p/ups from somewhere else adding delivery volume to my area.
Can we check our leads at upsers? (New guy here) Never mind, I'll go look.
Yes. You can access from the home page. Look on the right side of the page, about 1/2 way down, just above I-9 verification.
So your justification for not looking for new volume is you may have to do more work? I have to admit that answer suprised me coming from you.
Cut routes lead to inconsistent delivery schedules, which in turn make customers upset when they cannot count on deliveries being made with any consistency. I have a 95% resi route with a few home-based businesses. One of these is a daily pickup that ships approx. 10-25 packages a day, over 50K a year in shipping costs. When my route's in he always gets his packages in the morning, allowing him to turn them around and ship them out later that same day. When my route gets cut he doesn't get his deliveries in the morning, compromising his business.
Several people have complained about this, sometimes having three different drivers a week delivering their stuff at different times every day. UPS is doing this pickup compliance stuff but somehow it doesn't apply to our delivery schedules due to the cutting of routes...
I could complain to management but I'd be more succesfull talking to a brick wall. I'll save my breath, thank you.
K
Actually my run would not be cut as I have too many pickups.
That is just my point. All this bitchin' about routes being cut when the key to this problem is increasing the volume so a minimal amout of routes would be cut, thus eliminating the situation mentioned above. The only way to solve this is everyone to work together and, I do mean EVERYONE and WORKING TOGETHER. IMO I think UPS needs to put more money into BD and I do mean getting quality employees into BD that give a damn about the future of the company they work for!