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Scratch Got Time Studied Today
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<blockquote data-quote="Overpaid Union Thug" data-source="post: 255955" data-attributes="member: 198"><p>Everyone knows the numbers for a route are <strong>supposed</strong> to be based on the mythical "perfect load" combined with no traffic and a driver using all the methods. The problem is outdated time studies and time studies that were done with drivers that didn't do the job correctly (walking and not running, delivering apartments correctly, walking up driveways instead of backing the truck up it, etc.). EDD supposedly adjusts the min/max number of stops for a route based on what the driver was able to do the day before(and also based on the ratio of business stops to residential). I'm starting to believe this and this is why...... So, if a lunch skipping runner is on a route for a few days the driver that runs it next will have trouble scratching. I walk every stop and take the full hour lunch. On some routes, if the load is decent, I usually finish between 15 under and 15 over but on other routes I would have to run and skip lunch to even come close to scratching. If I am on the same route for serveral days in a row, or more, I have noticed that the work load stays about the same. If I end up moving to another route for a few days and then come back the route is always jacked if a lunch skipping runner had been on it while I was on the other route. Is this just a reaccuring coincidence or is it really the reason why routes get so jacked up? Some of us in our center have noticed this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Overpaid Union Thug, post: 255955, member: 198"] Everyone knows the numbers for a route are [b]supposed[/b] to be based on the mythical "perfect load" combined with no traffic and a driver using all the methods. The problem is outdated time studies and time studies that were done with drivers that didn't do the job correctly (walking and not running, delivering apartments correctly, walking up driveways instead of backing the truck up it, etc.). EDD supposedly adjusts the min/max number of stops for a route based on what the driver was able to do the day before(and also based on the ratio of business stops to residential). I'm starting to believe this and this is why...... So, if a lunch skipping runner is on a route for a few days the driver that runs it next will have trouble scratching. I walk every stop and take the full hour lunch. On some routes, if the load is decent, I usually finish between 15 under and 15 over but on other routes I would have to run and skip lunch to even come close to scratching. If I am on the same route for serveral days in a row, or more, I have noticed that the work load stays about the same. If I end up moving to another route for a few days and then come back the route is always jacked if a lunch skipping runner had been on it while I was on the other route. Is this just a reaccuring coincidence or is it really the reason why routes get so jacked up? Some of us in our center have noticed this. [/QUOTE]
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