route rebid question

[Jones]

Good Lord, stuck on the same route for your whole career! A lot of suicides in those buildings?

I can see where a junior driver who's scared of getting bumped would see bidding for life as a kind of safe space, but at 20 years that safe space might look more like a prison.

 

[tadpole]

Good Lord, stuck on the same route for your whole career! A lot of suicides in those buildings?

You can give up your route at any time and become a cover driver again. Or bid on other routes as they become available.

 

[Cementups]

He won the bid , so you figure if someone wanted it more they would've took it then

Not necessarily. I bid a route years ago that only went out with 90-100 stops. Shortly after I was doing about 130. Over the next 7 years I had it I was up to 160+. All of a sudden another driver decided he wanted a change of pace and started a domino effect. He bumped one guy and that guy already had his eyes on my route. So 7 years prior and a lot lighter, no one wanted it. Now with more work and a tighter area (and I had the DOL set up stop for stop essentially), my route became desirable.

Our package drivers bid every two years in HARPA. The last bid was this past spring. I knew it was coming again and I was going to lose my route (for more complex reasons). Screw that noise. Off to feeders I went. Sick of that crap.

 

[Over disciplined0123]

I just got the route I've wanted for 2+ years. I was unassigned before that. When we rebid routes next year, do I have the option of keeping it or could someone with more seniority take it from me?

Really that’s a silly question routes are bid on seniority Seems like that’s basically all that the union is doing for us at this time

 

[Brownslave688]

Not necessarily. No one can bump me from my route. Not even a guy with 50 years. When we bid, we bid for life.

You can get bumped if a route is eliminated.

 

[Wally]

Good Lord, stuck on the same route for your whole career! A lot of suicides in those buildings?

A good route is like a woman that makes a great sammich! You stick with it!

 

[over9five]

A good route is like a woman that makes a great sammich! You stick with it!

But it would be the SAME tuna sammich every day...day after day... week after week....year after year... that exact same tuna sammich!

 

[Wally]

But it would be the SAME tuna sammich every day...day after day... week after week....year after year... that exact same tuna sammich!

Oh yea! So good.

 

[scratch]

I've been on my residential route 22 years or so. I got rid of my pickups and pretty much just run trace now. ORION still thinks of ways to screw that up.

 

[Wally]

Orion Sammich, never good.

 

[MC0493]

Still a cover driver, but i'm glad my center is bid for life. As a low seniority guy i'd hate that someone could come along one year and knock me off what i want to do. I already sometimes but heads with getting bumped just covering stuff.

 

[Rack em]

I'd rather just stay a swing driver with more seniority so I could pick what route I want to do that day. If there is a nice rural route open I could take that. But if the rural routes that are open are all heavy with bad days I can just take some in town route.

 

[MC0493]

That's kind of the direction i'm heading unless something i really want opens up. I generally float between decent routes i like with the occasional crappy one in the mix. I'm the only cover driver that knows a route that runs 2 trucks right by the building. A p1000 and a footer, what a fantastic route...