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<blockquote data-quote="Star B" data-source="post: 2792763" data-attributes="member: 61246">Really?&nbsp; The station in Great Falls, MT is no different than the station in NYC?&nbsp; Dickinson, ND is the same as Englewood, CO?No.&nbsp; Each station has its unique challenges.&nbsp; If you get a surge in a tight urban area, you start flexing between areas or create routes for the PM.&nbsp; Yes, you need the bodies to do so, but with DRA, you can give it to the FO driver that can&#039;t navigate out of a paper bag and be certain that they will eventually finish.If you surge on a country route... what do you do?&nbsp; If the surge is concentrated in a town, great, the route could possibly absorb it or you can send another FO/PT driver just for the city and leave the experience to run the outskirts.&nbsp; What happens if you have both types of area surges?&nbsp; You need the bodies for the in-town routes where the most profit is (highest SPH/lowest cost/lowest % community ties) or you start burning the outskirts with service failures and hurt more in the long run (higher cost, tight-knit community where everyone knows each other).We all know where upper management will focu$ on.&nbsp; If they could $ee the whole $cope of thing$, it may be different.&nbsp; They are blinded by the $weet reward$ of ea$y work.Some stations need to be fatter than others to be able to handle the challenges their station area creates.&nbsp; That&#039;s for local management to figure out, not some bean counter in MEM.&nbsp; To challange that, however, means having a backbone, and most managers lost their backbone as soon as we went public.... maybe sooner, I don&#039;t know.&nbsp; I wasn&#039;t around for that time.It&#039;s yet another documented failure for PSP.When it comes to hours and being paid, couriers should plan for the minimums but not be afraid to go off statistics.&nbsp; When I bought my house, the banks were approving me for 50k+ more than I wanted to go based on my historical income from Express.&nbsp; I asked them to throw all those numbers away and go off of my mins and most of my preapprovals dropped about 40k.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Star B, post: 2792763, member: 61246"] Really? The station in Great Falls, MT is no different than the station in NYC? Dickinson, ND is the same as Englewood, CO? No. Each station has its unique challenges. If you get a surge in a tight urban area, you start flexing between areas or create routes for the PM. Yes, you need the bodies to do so, but with DRA, you can give it to the FO driver that can't navigate out of a paper bag and be certain that they will eventually finish. If you surge on a country route... what do you do? If the surge is concentrated in a town, great, the route could possibly absorb it or you can send another FO/PT driver just for the city and leave the experience to run the outskirts. What happens if you have both types of area surges? You need the bodies for the in-town routes where the most profit is (highest SPH/lowest cost/lowest % community ties) or you start burning the outskirts with service failures and hurt more in the long run (higher cost, tight-knit community where everyone knows each other). We all know where upper management will focu$ on. If they could $ee the whole $cope of thing$, it may be different. They are blinded by the $weet reward$ of ea$y work. Some stations need to be fatter than others to be able to handle the challenges their station area creates. That's for local management to figure out, not some bean counter in MEM. To challange that, however, means having a backbone, and most managers lost their backbone as soon as we went public.... maybe sooner, I don't know. I wasn't around for that time. It's yet another documented failure for PSP. When it comes to hours and being paid, couriers should plan for the minimums but not be afraid to go off statistics. When I bought my house, the banks were approving me for 50k+ more than I wanted to go based on my historical income from Express. I asked them to throw all those numbers away and go off of my mins and most of my preapprovals dropped about 40k. [/QUOTE]

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