Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="BigBrownSanta" data-source="post: 460285" data-attributes="member: 11097">The numbers I posted earlier were not meant to be used to condemn this guy. They were meant to show how much of a difference in actual time a drop of 3 SPORH can be. In both examples, the times are in addition to any overallowed the route may have had to begin with. In other words if the route was already planning at 1 hour overallowed, the 17 SPORH day would have shown up as 2 hrs 36 minutes overallowed on the morning report.&nbsp;There are a great number of variables that can affect the SPORH. As I mentioned earlier, conducting union business on the phone could have been a factor. Bad loads that result in resorting the truck, excessive waits at meet points for customers, sups, or other drivers, splits in unknown areas, splits in low density/rural areas, providing personal service to his deliveries, duplicate stops because of &quot;not found&quot; packages, delivering exactly by EDD.... The list goes on and on. Basically, anything you do from the time you leave the building until you return to the building that is not a delivery or a pickup hurts your SPORH. One or two of these things by themselves won&#039;t explain the drop in SPORH, but a combination of a few of these variables could.&nbsp;As I said in another thread about 3 day rides, the company controls many variables that can affect SPORH and by manipulating those variables can radically reduce a drivers SPORH. Once they get you &quot;locked in&quot;, the games begin. &nbsp;In my case, my truck became a training area for new preloaders. Every 3 weeks or so I would get a new preloader. About the time they learn the truck and start getting things into the right places, here comes another new preloader.&nbsp;Another trick is to get you to go back to reattempt a delivery or meet a customer. You get there and they don&#039;t show up for 20 minutes. There&#039;s nothing you can do about it. If you leave, they just set another meet point which means another long wait. &nbsp;Or maybe a sup needs to meet up with you to get a misload or drop one off and conveniently forgets how to get to where you are.&nbsp;Anyways, all this typing and what I&#039;m trying to get at is that I am not condemning this guy nor am I giving him a pass. I don&#039;t know all the facts. No one does.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BigBrownSanta, post: 460285, member: 11097"] The numbers I posted earlier were not meant to be used to condemn this guy. They were meant to show how much of a difference in actual time a drop of 3 SPORH can be. In both examples, the times are in addition to any overallowed the route may have had to begin with. In other words if the route was already planning at 1 hour overallowed, the 17 SPORH day would have shown up as 2 hrs 36 minutes overallowed on the morning report. There are a great number of variables that can affect the SPORH. As I mentioned earlier, conducting union business on the phone could have been a factor. Bad loads that result in resorting the truck, excessive waits at meet points for customers, sups, or other drivers, splits in unknown areas, splits in low density/rural areas, providing personal service to his deliveries, duplicate stops because of "not found" packages, delivering exactly by EDD.... The list goes on and on. Basically, anything you do from the time you leave the building until you return to the building that is not a delivery or a pickup hurts your SPORH. One or two of these things by themselves won't explain the drop in SPORH, but a combination of a few of these variables could. As I said in another thread about 3 day rides, the company controls many variables that can affect SPORH and by manipulating those variables can radically reduce a drivers SPORH. Once they get you "locked in", the games begin. In my case, my truck became a training area for new preloaders. Every 3 weeks or so I would get a new preloader. About the time they learn the truck and start getting things into the right places, here comes another new preloader. Another trick is to get you to go back to reattempt a delivery or meet a customer. You get there and they don't show up for 20 minutes. There's nothing you can do about it. If you leave, they just set another meet point which means another long wait. Or maybe a sup needs to meet up with you to get a misload or drop one off and conveniently forgets how to get to where you are. Anyways, all this typing and what I'm trying to get at is that I am not condemning this guy nor am I giving him a pass. I don't know all the facts. No one does. [/QUOTE]

Verification