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<blockquote data-quote="HyperBrn" data-source="post: 5621028" data-attributes="member: 102381">There&#039;s no reason that dispatch can&#039;t be held accountable/responsible for dispatching drivers fairly.For example, why are some drivers dispatched in a way that they can get their route done in 7 hrs, take a code 5 and go home, while others are dispatched where they are ALWAYS working 10-12hr days?&nbsp; Don&#039;t management have enough tools and metrics that detail which drivers are typically under-allowed and which drivers are typically over allowed so that they can adjust the dispatches to make it more even across the board?Sure, you&#039;ll say &quot;What about drivers that run and gun, or drivers that sandbag.&quot;&nbsp; Well that&#039;s what OJS/Route survey ride alongs are designed to weed out right?&nbsp; From what I heard, dispatch is incredibly hamstrung with respect to how much control they have on how they configure the routes.&nbsp; And if that&#039;s the case, all of our whining and moaning about dispatch being unbalanced (even mine above) falls on deaf ears because there&#039;s friend&#039;all they can do about it even if they wanted to.&nbsp; IMHO why can&#039;t we have something written in the contract that states that a fair day&#039;s work amounts to a 9 hour(or another objectively chosen time) dispatch, based on the type of route (urban/rural/business/resi/etc) and capability of the driver assigned to the route.&nbsp; And language in the 9.5 grievance section that states that any more than X number of &quot;paid out&quot; 9.5 grievances in Y weeks based on being over dispatched will trigger an automatic adjustment of dispatch to be reduced by the average length of time the employee is over 9.5.&nbsp; Anyways, I&#039;m rambling now.&nbsp; TL;DR - the new penalties for 9.5 sounds good but I think more can be done in the contract to help force management/company to take steps beyond paying us out to fix our dispatches.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HyperBrn, post: 5621028, member: 102381"] There's no reason that dispatch can't be held accountable/responsible for dispatching drivers fairly. For example, why are some drivers dispatched in a way that they can get their route done in 7 hrs, take a code 5 and go home, while others are dispatched where they are ALWAYS working 10-12hr days? Don't management have enough tools and metrics that detail which drivers are typically under-allowed and which drivers are typically over allowed so that they can adjust the dispatches to make it more even across the board? Sure, you'll say "What about drivers that run and gun, or drivers that sandbag." Well that's what OJS/Route survey ride alongs are designed to weed out right? From what I heard, dispatch is incredibly hamstrung with respect to how much control they have on how they configure the routes. And if that's the case, all of our whining and moaning about dispatch being unbalanced (even mine above) falls on deaf ears because there's friend'all they can do about it even if they wanted to. IMHO why can't we have something written in the contract that states that a fair day's work amounts to a 9 hour(or another objectively chosen time) dispatch, based on the type of route (urban/rural/business/resi/etc) and capability of the driver assigned to the route. And language in the 9.5 grievance section that states that any more than X number of "paid out" 9.5 grievances in Y weeks based on being over dispatched will trigger an automatic adjustment of dispatch to be reduced by the average length of time the employee is over 9.5. Anyways, I'm rambling now. TL;DR - the new penalties for 9.5 sounds good but I think more can be done in the contract to help force management/company to take steps beyond paying us out to fix our dispatches. [/QUOTE]

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