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<blockquote data-quote="PPH_over_9000" data-source="post: 4550128" data-attributes="member: 79761"><p>Unrelated to the people I'm responding to below:</p><p></p><p>So I scratched yesterday. Following you guyses advice I ended up being under by -134, which seems like about an hour and 20 minutes. Today I knocked out my insanely light Saturday load by 3:18pm, and I think I scratched that too... but then my supervisor sent me to take about 45 stops off another driver in a completely unfamiliar area and I didn't get back to the building until 5:42pm. I'm not sure how helping someone else would effect my over/under, or even if it does.... but either way, it kind of feels good to be the one bailing someone else out instead of being the one that's drowning in cardboard all day.</p><p></p><p>The best part? I'm now on vacation for a week, lol. It carried over from when I was preloading. So I've put a pause on my 4th week to qualify and I get to rest up for the next 9 days before I go into my last week.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>For sure, especially with a route that's so tightly packed with neighborhoods. I did that again today and it makes a world of difference being able to move around in the back.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That's the plan, man, I just want to get a permanent spot on the roster. Once I manage that I'm going to be mimicking the older guys in our center, the ones with 15+ years in. They seem like they've got it all figured out, but they don't give good advice concerning how you have to work differently when you're still qualifying.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm learning to love these neighborhoods that are lined with huge trees for exactly this reason.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>See, I do that every morning but we can't get EDD until the preload's finished, and once the preload finishes they almost immediately call a PCM. So the best I've been able to do is sort everything by HIN/PAL, sometimes lining each shelf up like a number line if I've got the space to do so.</p><p></p><p>I check my first 5 stops at one of our computers first thing in the morning, so I get a feel for <strong>those</strong> stops and how many pieces go with them.... but for the entire route? I have no idea what's <strong>supposed</strong> to be there early in the morning, and I usually just go off the assumption that everything that shows in my board should be on my truck by the time we're all rollin' out.</p><p></p><p>Doesn't always go well, though. Today I was missing two airs and six ground pieces, so I made quite a few calls to the center to have them check the system. It was surprisingly a lot less painful than I expected it to be, and I was able to hold onto my sanity by having some kind of confirmation that the package I was looking for was definitely not on-truck.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Thanks for getting another perspective on it, man, and yeah, I always have at least my next two stops lined up. It's often the next 10-15, though. It's good to know that I seem to be doing things right, or at least.... more right with every day.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I agree. I've been doing the same for about a week now, things were too chaotic when I just kept faith that I'd find the pieces once I got to the stop.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PPH_over_9000, post: 4550128, member: 79761"] Unrelated to the people I'm responding to below: So I scratched yesterday. Following you guyses advice I ended up being under by -134, which seems like about an hour and 20 minutes. Today I knocked out my insanely light Saturday load by 3:18pm, and I think I scratched that too... but then my supervisor sent me to take about 45 stops off another driver in a completely unfamiliar area and I didn't get back to the building until 5:42pm. I'm not sure how helping someone else would effect my over/under, or even if it does.... but either way, it kind of feels good to be the one bailing someone else out instead of being the one that's drowning in cardboard all day. The best part? I'm now on vacation for a week, lol. It carried over from when I was preloading. So I've put a pause on my 4th week to qualify and I get to rest up for the next 9 days before I go into my last week. For sure, especially with a route that's so tightly packed with neighborhoods. I did that again today and it makes a world of difference being able to move around in the back. That's the plan, man, I just want to get a permanent spot on the roster. Once I manage that I'm going to be mimicking the older guys in our center, the ones with 15+ years in. They seem like they've got it all figured out, but they don't give good advice concerning how you have to work differently when you're still qualifying. I'm learning to love these neighborhoods that are lined with huge trees for exactly this reason. See, I do that every morning but we can't get EDD until the preload's finished, and once the preload finishes they almost immediately call a PCM. So the best I've been able to do is sort everything by HIN/PAL, sometimes lining each shelf up like a number line if I've got the space to do so. I check my first 5 stops at one of our computers first thing in the morning, so I get a feel for [B]those[/B] stops and how many pieces go with them.... but for the entire route? I have no idea what's [B]supposed[/B] to be there early in the morning, and I usually just go off the assumption that everything that shows in my board should be on my truck by the time we're all rollin' out. Doesn't always go well, though. Today I was missing two airs and six ground pieces, so I made quite a few calls to the center to have them check the system. It was surprisingly a lot less painful than I expected it to be, and I was able to hold onto my sanity by having some kind of confirmation that the package I was looking for was definitely not on-truck. Thanks for getting another perspective on it, man, and yeah, I always have at least my next two stops lined up. It's often the next 10-15, though. It's good to know that I seem to be doing things right, or at least.... more right with every day. I agree. I've been doing the same for about a week now, things were too chaotic when I just kept faith that I'd find the pieces once I got to the stop. [/QUOTE]
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