What does your contract say?
"Seniority shall be considered when making work assignments for drivers not holding a bid route" is the language in the South. Pretty vague. There's no "winning a request for a route for a week" like he said though. Bids aren't put up for open routes by the week, nothing is in writing. It's just a bad system.
the way that wording is interrupted here is you get to request based on seniority what vacation you'll cover.
I think that's the intent of the language we have as well.
It ultimately comes down to interpretations and union representatives that are willing to fight for it.
You and I both know that local or district management will never be allowed to dispatch underloads on Mondays in order to make service on the pickups.
Yes correct. But what I was saying was being low man it might be hard for this driver to even win a route request for the week.
It's downright comical what Orion does
Even if ORION were capable of dividing pickup routes in a manner that made geographical sense, it cant do anything about the problem of trying to contain 1400 cubic feet of pickup volume from two routes into a single P-1000. Nor can it do anything for the business who is being delivered 3 hours late and picked up 3 hours early without any warning due to the route which normally services it being eliminated.
Big difference picking up my 500 pick up at 4:15 not 2:00
Stop being obtuse.
Management made these decisions, they should have to deal with them. They should be forced to call every pick up and say the drivers is picking you up two hours early
it's amazing how many customers suddenly get a phone call asking if their pickup is ready yet from the driver who a day before "didn't have his phone bill paid by UPS"
