Peak 2017

[What The Hawk?]

Yep. This is the calm before the shiet storm lol.

The reason I get out of bed every day!

 

[Southeast Hoss]

How many temps does your guy hire?

 

[dmac1]

I'll manage. I'm worried about next week with brown adding surcharges for residential deliveries and we aren't. I'm still under staffed for ideal but I'm giving the guys a stop rate bonus this year. They'll get smoked but at least they'll get paid well for it.

Hope your drivers are used to working in the dark. Working 10 hours or more and quitting at 8pm in the summer is lot different than during peak, when the darkness and possibly weather slow things down by maybe 50% after 5pm or so. Doing a little math might prove it is cheaper to hire enough drivers/rental vans to make sure everyone finishes early.

 

[Southeast Hoss]

we have a few down here in Birmingham, but they will more then likely quit once they have to work some longer hours.

 

[What The Hawk?]

Hope your drivers are used to working in the dark. Working 10 hours or more and quitting at 8pm in the summer is lot different than during peak, when the darkness and possibly weather slow things down by maybe 50% after 5pm or so. Doing a little math might prove it is cheaper to hire enough drivers/rental vans to make sure everyone finishes early.

Which is why I did not become a full time driver before peak. I'm waiting til spring/summer to go for it.

 

[Star B]

I'm confused about peak. Why do people say it's hell during this time? At my center they take your big bulk stops off your route so you have less, the worst part for preload anyway is the standing around waiting for the missing or lost trailers. Is it just horrible for drivers?

You know you're in the FedEx forum right? I hear lots of "UPSisms" in your post.

Also.. we're starting to pick up. Lots of DRA routes that I haven't seen since... last peak. Stop counts for multiple routes in the 100s already.

 

[It will be fine]

Hope your drivers are used to working in the dark. Working 10 hours or more and quitting at 8pm in the summer is lot different than during peak, when the darkness and possibly weather slow things down by maybe 50% after 5pm or so. Doing a little math might prove it is cheaper to hire enough drivers/rental vans to make sure everyone finishes early.

It's pretty easy to work in the dark here. Lots of street lights and city numbering. You know where the house is on the block by the number. It's not my first peak.

 

[What The Hawk?]

You know you're in the FedEx forum right? I hear lots of "UPSisms" in your post.

Also.. we're starting to pick up. Lots of DRA routes that I haven't seen since... last peak. Stop counts for multiple routes in the 100s already.

It's the same damn job...so really doesn't matter.

 

[Operational needs]

It's pretty easy to work in the dark here. Lots of street lights and city numbering. You know where the house is on the block by the number. It's not my first peak.

Lucky. I have a rural route with very few street lights. Numbers can be anywhere...on mailboxes, fences, rocks, trees, etc. lol.

 

[OrioN]

Lucky. I have a rural route with very few street lights. Numbers can be anywhere...on mailboxes, fences, rocks, trees, etc. lol.

Your rural route customer homes have numbers?!? I warned my customers about me not going to be their delivery driver for peak & to use fedex.com/delivery to state where the packages should be released, but oh well.

They hired one temp last week & I already had to do 3 DFUs because of him.

Wish HD adopts the eNotes so I can add description of some of my rural stops for the supplemental driver... butt that would make the temp drivers jobs easier to do.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

It's the same damn job...so really doesn't matter.

Nope.

 

[What The Hawk?]

Nope.

Gotta deal with the same issues while driving..same thing.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Gotta deal with the same issues while driving..same thing.

Nope.

The Express driver who most closely mirrors my route does three loops, one for each of their commit times, whereas I make an air loop before starting my route.

 

[What The Hawk?]

Nope.

The Express driver who most closely mirrors my route does three loops, one for each of their commit times, whereas I make an air loop before starting my route.

Well yeah..there are differences but the job itself..same in many ways

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Well yeah..there are differences but the job itself..same in many ways

Nope.

 

[What The Hawk?]

Nope.

Yet you don't care to elaborate..interesting

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Yet you don't care to elaborate..interesting

Cuz you are just a PTer and I don’t generally interact w/PTers.

 

[What The Hawk?]

Cuz you are just a PTer and I don’t generally interact w/PTers.

And you obviously can't dispute my statement. Lol

 

[Operational needs]

Your rural route customer homes have numbers?!? I warned my customers about me not going to be their delivery driver for peak & to use fedex.com/delivery to state where the packages should be released, but oh well.

They hired one temp last week & I already had to do 3 DFUs because of him.

Wish HD adopts the eNotes so I can add description of some of my rural stops for the supplemental driver... butt that would make the temp drivers jobs easier to do.

Trust me, they don’t all have numbers.

 

[Nolimitz]

Trust me, they don’t all have numbers.

Or they are hidden by lights and decorations..