Remote

[Appvol]

Driver was telling me today that UPS bringing back remote. There is going to be 6 test centers. This should be a hard no in the contract talks.

 

[burrheadd]

Good way to get off early on Fridays

 

[SorryLazyPOS]

Should bring back RDO.

 

[R1wonder]

I’ve been driving like 8-9 years . Is this before my time ?

 

[AKCoverMan]

Driver was telling me today that UPS bringing back remote. There is going to be 6 test centers. This should be a hard no in the contract talks.

Tell me more of this “Remote” of which you speak…

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Tell me more of this “Remote” of which you speak…

That's when they only deliver certain areas on certain days not every day

 

[cosmo1]

That's when they only deliver certain areas on certain days not every day

That wasn't the original plan.

 

[Jones]

Driver was telling me today that UPS bringing back remote. There is going to be 6 test centers. This should be a hard no in the contract talks.

It was a disaster the first time around but regardless it's not a contract issue. If UPS wants to do it again that's their business.

 

[Wally]

That wasn't the original plan.

That's how we did it. You had sections you only hit every other day. Trouble was, the driver drove by anyway for calls, air, etc. The plan failed faster than the Biden presidency.

Another problem now is competition.

 

[burrheadd]

The country drivers would deliver most everything all week
Friday comes around and never leave the blacktop bar was full of drivers by 5:00

 

[AKCoverMan]

That's when they only deliver certain areas on certain days not every day

I mean that sounds like how I handle over dispatching during peak. “Rolling Blackout“ strategy.

 

[AKCoverMan]

a/ka “Never screw the same neighborhood two days in a row!”

 

[Wally]

The no delivery zones were loaded in the truck too.

 

[AKCoverMan]

The no delivery zones were loaded in the truck too.

So how you sheet those?

 

[Wally]

So how you sheet those?

You didn't.

 

[Jones]

That's how we did it. You had sections you only hit every other day. Trouble was, the driver drove by anyway for calls, air, etc. The plan failed faster than the Biden presidency.

Another problem now is competition.

We started out with the drivers making the decisions and it went pretty much like burrhead said, they would deliver everything all week and bring half the truck back on Friday. So then the company decided they couldn't trust the drivers to do it right and every morning they had supervisors pull sections from all the country routes, but this was before EDD so they didn't really know what was on the cars and very few of the supervisors really knew the country routes so that always got screwed up too. In the end, everyone hated it especially the customers and UPS finally pulled the plug.

 

[Jones]

So how you sheet those?

When drivers were making the call there was a code for it in the board, when the sups started pulling sections they would just have some preloader scan the piles.

 

[Wally]

We started out with the drivers making the decisions and it went pretty much like burrhead said, they would deliver everything all week and bring half the truck back on Friday. So then the company decided they couldn't trust the drivers to do it right and every morning they had supervisors pull sections from all the country routes, but this was before EDD so they didn't really know what was on the cars and very few of the supervisors really knew the country routes so that always got screwed up too. In the end, everyone hated it especially the customers and UPS finally pulled the plug.

Lol, it sure was a giant cluster.

 

[AKCoverMan]

You didn't.

so Much for “every package every day”…

 

[MyTripisCut]

Remote+ORION+ContractNegotions+TSP= @Future