Some experienced drivers have shared options with me in avoiding late air. I know all are wrong, or at least questionable.
I have been a Saturday Air driver for 1 year and 4 months since being DQ due to an accident. I deliver to a town which is actually not serviced by our center, only on Saturday. I left with way too much work this past Saturday, sent a message to the center asking for help with enough notice. I get a message to call center ASAP 20 minutes later. Was told no one is available and to deliver everything on time.
Some suggestions I have been given:
1. Deliver business/signature required stops first, then DR everything before the commit time.
2. Use a zip code for a town that has a relaxed commit time. An additional 90 minutes is allowed, commit time would be 1:30pm.
3. After the commit time, don't sheet the package, just deliver it without scanning.
I know all of these are wrong, or at least highly questionable. Whoever said there isn't pressure driving Saturday Air is misinformed. Anyways, I gave in to the pressure, DR everything by the commit time. Which is the lesser of those 3 evils?
Something is wrong here. You were DQ because of an accident but still get to drive?
? Went full time, had an accident, then got sent back to part time and you get to drive as a part timer? Makes a lot on sense now. You cant handle a package car full time because of an accident, but we will let you handle a package car part time. I know its a union rule.
Notify the sup before you leave the building, and say it clearly "I do not believe I will get all these deliveries delivered before the commit time" If he leaves them on you, leave the bldg, go directly to your first and nearest delivery. Upon completion of the delivery send a message "I do not believe I will get all these deliveries delivered before the commit time"
Do not call the center, the supervisor, the OMS personnel. If he sends a message asking you to call the center, send a message "My cell phone is not for company use and I dont have money for a payphone". Only communicate through the diad. You fudge time committs/delivery records you will be looking for a new job. Maybe not this time, or the next time, but, you will be looking for a new job. Find a shop steward and let him/her know what this supervisor told you to do. Try to remember word for word what he told you to do, then pick up a phone and call the company hotline. This supe is gonna lose his job, instead of you. He's gonna tell other drivers to do the same thing, and maybe cause other drivers to lose their jobs to. What a sorry excuse for a supervisor. Help me cheat to make my numbers look good, and when we get cought, I will deny telling you to do that, and you will get fired.