He’s right, if Fedex isn’t loading the trucks it’s a waste for him to come and do it properly. Just toss the crap in the truck, line up 10 stops at a time and deal with misloads tomorrow. I train my guys to just show up, Pretrip the vehicle and go, don’t bother looking through everything, it’s not our problem.
You are only wasting your drivers productivity. A properly sorted truck saves your drivers time on road and increases your bottom line. So much for being an independent business owner.
Thanks for the input, but I know what I’m doing. Spending a hour going through the truck before leaving does not save an hour on road. You just start delivering and as the day goes on it gets easier to find things. If you know what you’re doing you’ll spend the same time on road as when you massage every package before dispatch.
That's not the experience we have at Express. Every driver whether they load or not fine sorts their load, knows where to look for their next stop without a load sequence, and could tell you that's much more efficient and and accurate to way to work.
Wow. I start having a melt down on every manager by 745.
I have drivers that believe that too. Even when I ride along with them and show them it’s not true, they believe it. The time spent looking during the day does not equal the time they spend rearranging the truck in the morning and they finish at the same time regardless. Drivers often overestimate how long it takes to locate a package on the truck. Some aren’t very bright and it will take those a bit longer to find a box, but no amount of sorting will fix stupid.
This is especially true on routes with a couple bulk stops that come off early. Clear it out, sort next session, go.
Like I said to save time on road, gas, mileage, etc. this type of thinking is exactly why you guys would absolutely fail if you were to take Express work.
BS.
There's a way to disable it???
Nope, safety feature
And that 30 mins is a waste of time. If you know what shelf the box is loaded on you look on that shelf and find it. Mak apparently believes if you spend time rearranging the entire truck in delivery order you’ll somehow save gas. The reality is you just waste time. He’s arguing drivers should spend 9 hours at work to do an 8 hour job because he mistakenly believes that’s more efficient.You guys aren't really getting what Makeveli is saying I think. No stake in the game for me anymore so to say. Gone. When he's saying fine sort, and I don't really think you understand what he's saying. We look at all the addresses on the labels and remember them in 20 30 minutes. Is what it is , pay to play . Really miss you guys.
It’s there more often than not. The couple times during the day that it’s not in the right spot still don’t add up to 30 minutes spent looking especially as the truck empties throughout the day.
