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<blockquote data-quote="El Morado Diablo" data-source="post: 4893776" data-attributes="member: 40760">I completely agree with you.The fact is, not all stations are the same. I&#039;m in a small station (&lt; 20 routes, many of them rural). They complain about&nbsp; SINGLE stand alones. There isn&#039;t a lot of flexibility when you have so few routes, not to mention being constantly short-handed due to continual turnover (we lost 20% of our couriers last month). In a perfect world managers would be confident to relay this up the food chain without fear of it being called an excuse. In reality, we are forced to do anything to keep something from showing up on a report whether it makes sense or not. This doesn&#039;t make sense to anyone who is actually doing the job. About the only day it&#039;s a problem here is Mondays since that&#039;s the only day of the week we actually make service. Our freight is so late the rest of the week that stand alones aren&#039;t an issue.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="El Morado Diablo, post: 4893776, member: 40760"] I completely agree with you. The fact is, not all stations are the same. I'm in a small station (< 20 routes, many of them rural). They complain about SINGLE stand alones. There isn't a lot of flexibility when you have so few routes, not to mention being constantly short-handed due to continual turnover (we lost 20% of our couriers last month). In a perfect world managers would be confident to relay this up the food chain without fear of it being called an excuse. In reality, we are forced to do anything to keep something from showing up on a report whether it makes sense or not. This doesn't make sense to anyone who is actually doing the job. About the only day it's a problem here is Mondays since that's the only day of the week we actually make service. Our freight is so late the rest of the week that stand alones aren't an issue. [/QUOTE]

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