HomeDelivery
Well-Known Member
some wants to know the difference, so i'm making a thread about it for faster search results:
yea, yea, HD is a subdivision of Ground... we just need this to distinguish how they both operate differently
I'll start:
Ground operates Mon-Fri delivering mostly to business addresses
Vs
Home Delivery operates Tues-Sat going to mostly residential addresses
(exception of peak season when we both work 6 days a week up to our 70-hour DOT limits ~ LOL)
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yes, we share the same scanner, but Ground has texting / messaging capabilities to their hub by using the "Alt + T" function.
Home Delivery has to use our personal cellphones to contact the drivers on-the-road...
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Ground has more pickups (mostly from businesses) with different time windows
while
HD has once-in-a-blue-moon pickup with a time limit of 8AM to 8PM & deals with more Call Tags (similar to a pickup but you have the printed label /barcode for the box)
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HD has an automated plot sequence for their service areas; so anyone can slip into a route when the regular driver calls out... you just follow the street-by-street order to "straightline" and attempt every stop in your package car (aka VRP ~ Vehicle Route Planning) ~ sometimes the trace doesn't follow common sense, then that's when you have to use your brains (if you have any)
Ground requires some "area knowledge" and their parcels aren't sorted/sequenced like HD's... or you'll be out there all day & will miss your pickups if you don't have some sort of order in the cargo area (aka Vision ~ preloaders load the parcels into the trucks & you decide what order to go in).
I know for a fact that Ground can use HD's capability to plot all your stops for you, but due to the sheer amount of pieces per package car, it will take too long for each route... lazy bastards!
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Ground deals with Haz Mats & the drivers should know how to deal with them accordingly
while HD deals with ORM-D only so it can be lumped into the package car any way they want to
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PS: if express guys are going to be sarcastic on this thread, please use #sarcasm after your notations, thanks!
yea, yea, HD is a subdivision of Ground... we just need this to distinguish how they both operate differently
I'll start:
Ground operates Mon-Fri delivering mostly to business addresses
Vs
Home Delivery operates Tues-Sat going to mostly residential addresses
(exception of peak season when we both work 6 days a week up to our 70-hour DOT limits ~ LOL)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
yes, we share the same scanner, but Ground has texting / messaging capabilities to their hub by using the "Alt + T" function.
Home Delivery has to use our personal cellphones to contact the drivers on-the-road...
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ground has more pickups (mostly from businesses) with different time windows
while
HD has once-in-a-blue-moon pickup with a time limit of 8AM to 8PM & deals with more Call Tags (similar to a pickup but you have the printed label /barcode for the box)
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HD has an automated plot sequence for their service areas; so anyone can slip into a route when the regular driver calls out... you just follow the street-by-street order to "straightline" and attempt every stop in your package car (aka VRP ~ Vehicle Route Planning) ~ sometimes the trace doesn't follow common sense, then that's when you have to use your brains (if you have any)
Ground requires some "area knowledge" and their parcels aren't sorted/sequenced like HD's... or you'll be out there all day & will miss your pickups if you don't have some sort of order in the cargo area (aka Vision ~ preloaders load the parcels into the trucks & you decide what order to go in).
I know for a fact that Ground can use HD's capability to plot all your stops for you, but due to the sheer amount of pieces per package car, it will take too long for each route... lazy bastards!
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ground deals with Haz Mats & the drivers should know how to deal with them accordingly
while HD deals with ORM-D only so it can be lumped into the package car any way they want to
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PS: if express guys are going to be sarcastic on this thread, please use #sarcasm after your notations, thanks!
