Ooooh my aching ash......................You don't need to know how JoeBillyBob does the route. You don't need to know how long it takes SallyMayMary to get the route done. You have the tools to do the job the same every single day, on every single route, its called Methods. Follow them, and you get done when they say you should get done. Overallowed, underallowed, none of it matters. All that matter is you follow their methods and you will be done when they want you to be done. Cut corners, run to the stop and back to the package care/tractor/shifter, skip your lunch and breaks and you are screwing yourself out of a fair days pay for your fair days work. Do yourself a favor and follow their methods and watch how fast they will fix your route/run standards if in fact they are not correct to begin with.
I think the union should monitor working on the clock more. Gee, maybe they would have to add some extra drivers?
Because corporate and IE want to micro manage every tweak to every loop. Hell I bet they screamed for action plans in Boston to get back on track after the bombers got caught on the dispatch callsFrom what I understand about the system it should take about 2 minutes to change it. Since they love to send drivers to integrad. Why not have some type of two week training for all dispatchers. Before you take the job you go away for some training so u actually have some clue what your doing.
I used to be an All-Star myself, torching routes daily and running, jumping on and off the truck. All that gets you is a sore body and an extra 10 stops the next day.
Now my concerns are:
#1 No Accidents or Injuries
#2 Complete following of ALL methods
#3 Servicing Customers
#4 Staying Professional at all times
#5 My finish time/ UPS' arbitrary numbers
Because runners who break the rules and get done at all cost to get in early will always get these dispatches. Ups is smart in one facet as giving as much work as they can to a runner is a good business model. It's like gambling. They are betting (hoping) that these runners don't seriously hurt someone in exchange for hoping they (UPS) meet their numbers.So, I have run the same route for the last 2 days, and it's a pretty nice route in a slightly upscale area. On Thursday I did 203 stops and 94 miles and punched out at around 640, yesterday I did 213 stops, 109 miles and punched out at 940. I was giving our PDS a hard time about it and he said "that route wasn't meant for you, it was meant for Bill".
Why can't they just dispatch a route the same no matter who runs it? Since one driver is better, we're going to screw him and have him out all night? This logic seems inherently wrong.
Ill do the route ...I love hitting the MISSED button ,,,then filing an excessive overtime grievance....Ill knock that route down by 50 stops!!! and make another fulltime job for my brothers or sisters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Because runners who break the rules and get done at all cost to get in early will always get these dispatches. Ups is smart in one facet as giving as much work as they can to a runner is a good business model. It's like gambling. They are betting (hoping) that these runners don't seriously hurt someone in exchange for hoping them (UPS) meet their numbers.
A little more complex, though, is that the dispatch plan is based on the route loops set up by IE - and I can't speak for larger centers, but for the smaller ones such as I work in, the loops have literally not been touched in twenty years; suffice to say, a lot has changed since then. So, what this translates to in reality, is that when you try to cut address ranges in the dispatch plan, it refers back to the loops and drags a whole bunch of other stops that shouldn't go with it. Maybe there are ways around this that I'm not aware of, as I'm not a PDS - but whenever I've fiddled with the dispatch plans and talked with the PDS, this is what I always hear about.
Think about it.It's probably only your building doing this.They know who will run it fastest.Why can't they just dispatch a route the same no matter who runs it? Since one driver is better, we're going to screw him and have him out all night? This logic seems inherently wrong.
That would not be up to the union.
Fixing things on routes is also a little more complex then clicking a few buttons.
When I was a belt soup, I would get all the complaints from the drivers about an address that "doesn't really go here", and things of that nature - so, I read all the help files on DMS and after checking with the PDS, drew up a list of manual add/cuts I would do in the morning to make sure things were where they should be.
A little more complex, though, is that DMS runs off the actual dispatch plan drawn up by the PDS (I forget the acronym for that system at the moment) - so, whenever DMS is restarted (which is every day, sometimes several times a day), it rereads the dispatch plan and reassigns all the work back to the "wrong" spots. To actually fix this, you have to change the dispatch plans.
A little more complex, though, is that the dispatch plan is based on the route loops set up by IE - and I can't speak for larger centers, but for the smaller ones such as I work in, the loops have literally not been touched in twenty years; suffice to say, a lot has changed since then. So, what this translates to in reality, is that when you try to cut address ranges in the dispatch plan, it refers back to the loops and drags a whole bunch of other stops that shouldn't go with it. Maybe there are ways around this that I'm not aware of, as I'm not a PDS - but whenever I've fiddled with the dispatch plans and talked with the PDS, this is what I always hear about.
My understanding as well is that Orion makes the PDS' job much, much worse.
there is a way, you make a dummy street with no loop assignment. match it to the one you want to change and delete the assignment to the real street. now you can change its loop and dol order plus that sector or whatever the last 2 digits by the loop are. other option if the street is in the loop already just move its position in the dol.