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<blockquote data-quote="Catatonic" data-source="post: 766135" data-attributes="member: 7966"><p>No they are not NH but one of the components of developing a planned day is the "on-Area miles". I always thought the allowance for on-area miles per hour (somewhere around 20 mph) was one of teh looser allowances. Not going to give the driver a lot of planned time but maybe 30 minutes a day on a route that is 150 -200 miles per day. Rural areas also tend to have less red lights, traffic jams, etc. Not many stairs to climb up and down either.</p><p></p><p>The time allowance to make a stop, record a package etc are the same all over the country.</p><p></p><p>Of course, there is the matter of perception ... one of the oldest sayings at UPS and in other companies is "Don't confuse activity with productivity". That person that is walking slower may also be able to think about their next stop, the best travel path to get to it, where that person works , etc which can lead to being more productive.</p><p></p><p>Along the same line of thought, I have had the opportunity to watch developers write code for our ups.com applications. At one end of the spectrum is the coder that writes full tilt creating many lines of code. At th other end is the coder that sits there for a couple of minutes doing nothing (it seems), and then they will write 3 or 4 lines of code. Needless to say, the latter always has less bugs and the tighter code.</p><p></p><p>It would be interesting to hear from some of the unloaders of trailers in the hub about whether stacking boxes, not worrying about labels up - just pushing out as many boxes as possible compares to following the methods of unloading. P/T Sups are notorious for yelling at the unloader actually using correct methods as not trying hard enough.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Catatonic, post: 766135, member: 7966"] No they are not NH but one of the components of developing a planned day is the "on-Area miles". I always thought the allowance for on-area miles per hour (somewhere around 20 mph) was one of teh looser allowances. Not going to give the driver a lot of planned time but maybe 30 minutes a day on a route that is 150 -200 miles per day. Rural areas also tend to have less red lights, traffic jams, etc. Not many stairs to climb up and down either. The time allowance to make a stop, record a package etc are the same all over the country. Of course, there is the matter of perception ... one of the oldest sayings at UPS and in other companies is "Don't confuse activity with productivity". That person that is walking slower may also be able to think about their next stop, the best travel path to get to it, where that person works , etc which can lead to being more productive. Along the same line of thought, I have had the opportunity to watch developers write code for our ups.com applications. At one end of the spectrum is the coder that writes full tilt creating many lines of code. At th other end is the coder that sits there for a couple of minutes doing nothing (it seems), and then they will write 3 or 4 lines of code. Needless to say, the latter always has less bugs and the tighter code. It would be interesting to hear from some of the unloaders of trailers in the hub about whether stacking boxes, not worrying about labels up - just pushing out as many boxes as possible compares to following the methods of unloading. P/T Sups are notorious for yelling at the unloader actually using correct methods as not trying hard enough. [/QUOTE]
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