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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 777247" data-attributes="member: 14668">P-man,&nbsp;The center I am on is currently paying out over $5,000 per week in over-9.5 grievance penalty pay, and has been doing so for several months now.&nbsp;A driver in my loop ran out of DOT hours yesterday. Two drivers were sent back out from the building at 7:15 at night to try and make service on the package he didnt have time to deliver. Every other driver in the loop, myself included, worked at least 10.5 hours.&nbsp;My building recently consolidated from 3 centers down to 2, and my loop was transferred to a different center on August 1st. Since that time, every driver in the loop has seen his/her stop count go up by an average of 25 stops per car, and his/her paid day has increased by an average of 90 minutes. Service failures have gone thru the roof, people are running out of DOT hours, people are working up to 14 hours a day, and people are getting hurt.&nbsp;The only difference between now and one year ago....is that we have been transferred to a new center with a new SPC quota.&nbsp;The new SPC quota isnt just flawed....it is completely and totally divorced from reality by several orders of magnitude.&nbsp;Yes, I am sure there are &quot;improvements&quot; that could be made in the trace or in the dispatch....but nothing that will even come close to solving the underlying problem of the absurd and impossible expectations that are being piled upon us.&nbsp;And making those &quot;improvements&quot; will take time and effort and resources....which my management team simply does not have. We are in a permanent and daily state of crisis, and our management is so busy running around putting out fires that they dont have the time to sit down and make any of the &quot;improvements&quot; to the trace or the dispatch that you claim are the solution to the problem.&nbsp;My center is like the Titanic. Its slowly going under, and it wont stop until we fix the hole in the hull. The &quot;improvements&quot; you speak of are akin to trying to rearrange the deck chairs into neater and more orderly rows. There is nothing wrong with neat and orderly rows of deck chairs, but we need to solve the underlying problem first.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 777247, member: 14668"] P-man, The center I am on is currently paying out over [B]$5,000 per week[/B] in over-9.5 grievance penalty pay, and has been doing so for [B]several months now.[/B] A driver in my loop ran out of DOT hours yesterday. Two drivers were sent back out from the building at 7:15 at night to try and make service on the package he didnt have time to deliver. Every other driver in the loop, myself included, worked at least 10.5 hours. My building recently consolidated from 3 centers down to 2, and my loop was transferred to a different center on August 1st. Since that time, every driver in the loop has seen his/her stop count go up by [I]an average[/I] of 25 stops per car, and his/her paid day has increased by [I]an average[/I] of 90 minutes. Service failures have gone thru the roof, people are running out of DOT hours, people are working up to 14 hours a day, and people are getting hurt. The [I]only[/I] difference between now and one year ago....is that we have been transferred to a new center with a new SPC quota. The new SPC quota isnt just flawed....[B]it is completely and totally divorced from reality by several orders of magnitude[/B]. Yes, I am sure there are "improvements" that could be made in the trace or in the dispatch....but nothing that will even come [I]close[/I] to solving the underlying problem of the absurd and impossible expectations that are being piled upon us. And making those "improvements" will take [I]time[/I] and [I]effort[/I] and [I]resources....[/I]which my management team simply [I]does not have[/I]. We are in a permanent and daily state of crisis, and our management is so busy running around putting out fires that they dont have the [I]time[/I] to sit down and make any of the "improvements" to the trace or the dispatch that you claim are the solution to the problem. My center is like the Titanic. Its slowly going under, and it wont stop until we fix the hole in the hull. The "improvements" you speak of are akin to trying to rearrange the deck chairs into neater and more orderly rows. There is nothing wrong with neat and orderly rows of deck chairs, but we need to solve the underlying problem[I] first[/I]. [/QUOTE]

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