Its most likely that they have run up miles.
So lets take that statement. The driver has run up the miles. I find that interesting that the first thing that comes to your mind is that the driver that is not running the as good as the other, but yet stays out longer is having padding their miles. After all, it could not be a ton of other things, like boxes picked up, the number of packages delivered, going back after pickup stops that are miles away like you are supposed to, instead of picking them up before lunch?
On my last bid run, I had to break off trace to make 2 pickups, then drive another 4 miles to get another. Then three more pickups within the next 7 miles. Those 10 pickups would take right at an hour to make. That is the way I was told to run the route. The planned way. But it was not unusual to have the cover driver make at least three or four before lunch. So yes, "miles is smiles" does work when you dont drive the route as planned, and cut service.
Miles equals planned time. It is the weakest part of the measurement.
I dont know as it is the weakest part of the measurement. What I do know is that when you plot my deliveries on the board, there will not be a shorter way to run the route. What runs miles up is having managers split a stop. You know, one stop near the center. One that gets 5-10 packages a day. One that is right on the main drag from the center to a bunch of routes. Now, you make 5 drivers take packages for that one stop, and lookie see what happens to the measurement. All of a sudden, drivers that were being over by hours actually beat the standards.
Aint nothin like managers that set up a system, knowing ways to scam the system.
It is also one of the areas that are being targeted.
Targeted? Why? You think you got drivers running around running up miles so they dont have to deliver stops??? Why dont you look a bit closer to home. There have been a lot of delivery drivers that have posted about how the splits have been cut in. They are delivering to the same street, in the same neighborhood, at the same time. Sometimes to the same stop. How dang smart is that, to run a driver out of his way, to a section that didnt fit perfectly into the plan, to deliver a package to a stop where we had another diver already there?
So, while "miles is smiles" today, it won't be the case for a lot longer..
Now, had you stopped before you stated this, I would not have responded the way I did. The very statement smacks of not trusting the delivery workforce, especially this other driver.