Just because they let you get away with it doesn’t make it right. If those satellite drivers had been taking breaks when they were supposed to the past 10 years, they might have forced mgmt to reduce their workload and put another route in.
How? A 10 hour work day with a lunch is still a 10 hour day without a lunch.
The commits! Those 30 minutes (in the Central) to an hour (elsewhere) were especially crucial when we still had 1500 commits. And they still matter on commercial routes with heavy pickups.
The year before I made $3000 in grievances. Last year they kept more routes in and only made about $1000. Lunch has nothing to do with 9/5. The company thinks if they force a 1hr lunch that the non lunch takers will work harder to still get done at the same time they always do. It’s always at this time of year when they do this in our area.
No commit times on my route.
Not even businesses?
Very few commits on resi routes. No commits on satellite routes.
Supposed to have them delivered by 5 if you know they close 5 or later. If you don’t get to them by 5 and they are closed you sheet them up missed.
Totally illegal to do in my local. Besides, all that does is to serve to speed up the paid day. Helps the company bump up stop counts, robs the driver of pay.
No it's not. I break off for lunch. May put on more miles doing so, plus may have to take longer to move stuff for pickups, etc. Just by taking lunch, I do less stops in the same 10 hours.
Taking the hour break in the middle of the day as opposed to the end of the day has you delivering in the dark. I don’t know about you, but I deliver slower in the dark, especially on a rural route.
Don’t get windshield time. The center is hour away though. If I have around 100 stops 75 to 80 miles in the day I work 10hrs most of the time. Got about 5 pickups 4 are smart pickups. Might pickup 5 to 10 pkgs a day.
Sure I am a bit slower in the dark. But if I happen to do the same route for a few days in a row, I’m much more efficient. I always choose which stuff to save for dark. A 10 hour planned day, is still a 10 hour planned day.
If you are putting on more miles, it is no longer a 10 hour day. You are increasing your 10 hour planned day. 9 out of 10 days I drive less miles, therefore I am turning a 10 hour planned day into say a 9 hour planned day. Even if I need to break for pick ups.
Not sure what it's like in your neck of the woods, but where I am if a new hire has a pulse they are qualified.
So do you save some of the beginning of your rte (closest to your satellite) for the end after you drop your pick ups?
So- speaking from experience Big UPS Man? LOL!
