I love the Mid-Summer Peak Proclumations. "We won't rent vehicles this year", "We will cover 7 days a week with current staffing," "OT will be minimal."
All this does is guarenttee you will be reacting at the last minute, when the plan that won't work falls apart
PVDs will save the day.
A PVD is highly dependable. Both in terms of the employee, and their vehicle.
A PVD always has an appropriate vehicle type for the work.
A PVD always achieves a level of performance which justifies the cost.
A PVD can load up at the HUB, and even take their send-agains back themselves. (Reference the part about having an appropriate vehicle type as well as the part about dependability. Also, does no one have areas perfect for a PVD that are 40+ miles from the HUB?)
OR, a PVD can work from a TP60 you have dropped for them. (Wait... how many of your cars can even pull a TP60?)
A PVD can deliver businesses. (Again reference the part about having an appropriate vehicle type as well as the part about dependability. Also reference the part about performance.)
A PVD will never crash.
As you can see, the plan should be PVDs.
PVDs are the future of peak.
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Don't get me wrong, expanded PVD use can absolutely make sense in a number of areas. But there are some problems with PVDs which there doesn't seem to be a plan to address.
We're going to yet again hire people at random and hope they (and their vehicle) are good. That's not a winning strategy for selecting the right people. It's insanity. Then we're going to give them minimal training and hope for the best. And at the same time, we're going to expand what they can do (businesses) as well as greatly expand how many we're going to hire, so we're increasing the need we have for them to be good at the job while at the same time ensuring that each will receive less training and on average less supervision given how many of them there will be.
ing mongoloid
