White Monday

[DumbTruckDriver]

8:45 start, 95 stops, 240 miles.

Went back out to help another driver to round out a 12 hour day.

DIAD wasn't blowing up with messages, and there wasn't the usual frantic look in the eyes of management this time of year. I guess it was a good start.

 

[Overpaid Union Thug]

Well, this is UPS's 110th year so it's totally understandable that things aren't going well so far.... Oh wait nevermind.

And you'd think they'd have peak mastered after the somewhat stellar peaks we had the past two years.

 

[Johney]

4900....lmao

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That was nearly 40% of our volume for the day.

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Small time players Dave.....

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...pay the same as the "real" facilities...without all the BS.

BOG

 

[Brownslave688]

915 start. Sat and twiddled my thumbs until 10 when my TP60 finally showed up. Delivered my first stop at 1115. 105 stops and punched out at 2200.
Not a smooth start.

Our first day was brutal. Didn't leave the building til after 10. When I got in after 21:00 they were scrambling to find help for multiple guys they thought wouldn't finish.

 

[Brownslave688]

Well, this is UPS's 110th year so it's totally understandable that things aren't going well so far.... Oh wait nevermind.

And you'd think they'd have peak mastered after the somewhat stellar peaks we had the past two years.

Heavier than any day last year and we had like 5 helpers on road. SMH

 

[Keenj]

167 stops 480 packages no helper.
74 miles.
1 budget truck dedicated for SurePost
Lots of mountain driving and snow and long driveways with no turnarounds.
ORION calls for 9.5 hours, 11 hours worked.

It's going to be a glorious peak.

 

[Overpaid Union Thug]

Heavier than any day last year and we had like 5 helpers on road. SMH

Most of our problems were caused by our Center deciding to jump service on today's work. The post office in my area is failing on an all new level so far. Worse than us.

 

[Brownslave688]

Most of our problems were caused by our Center deciding to jump service on today's work. The post office in my area is failing on an all new level so far. Worse than us.

Same here with advancing loads. Which wouldn't of been a problem had they started early enough and not at 3 am.

 

[over9five]

One extra stop last night, 13 hours total.

 

[Coldworld]

Here to they guy next me brought over 40 commercial stops back. We have Orion this year it said he could do it by 5pm, didn't happen. They had to take 20 stops from me to get me off the road in 12hrs. Let the games begin..

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dave would never make it in a large center.....

 

[FrigidFTSup]

Most of our problems were caused by our Center deciding to jump service on today's work. The post office in my area is failing on an all new level so far. Worse than us.

Trailer forecast system is screwed up company wide right now. Some brainiac in IE didn't set the right dates for the Black Friday loads so trailers are appearing with no warning and others are missing.

Hell of a start.

 

[Coldworld]

Trailer forecast system is screwed up company wide right now. Some brainiac in IE didn't set the right dates for the Black Friday loads so trailers are appearing with no warning and others are missing.

Hell of a start.

They have been doing this for a long time.....unacceptable!! It boils down to staffing issues....

 

[Coldworld]

Trailer forecast system is screwed up company wide right now. Some brainiac in IE didn't set the right dates for the Black Friday loads so trailers are appearing with no warning and others are missing.

Hell of a start.

You surprised???

 

[km3]

Yesterday was not a bad first day. Working on Saturday made a huge difference as we not only processed all of Monday's work but advanced 4,900 Tuesday packages. We were told today would be "decent" and Wednesday would be much busier.

They should've run ground here on Saturday. Instead it was just an air day for whichever drivers did come in. Sunrise hub came in to process closed business volume from Wednesday and Friday. On Sunday, Noonday, Twilight, and Midnight ran...That didn't didn't go too well. Advanced volume + Closed volume + regular volume = disaster. Things could have run a lot smoother if drivers were out delivering ground on Saturday.

 

[UnconTROLLed]

....same here. Already instructed to run air in trace also.

I wonder if our drivers left at 10:30...LOL they barely made 1st air stop in some instances, I am thinking.

 

[Coldworld]

I wonder if our drivers left at 10:30...LOL they barely made 1st air stop in some instances, I am thinking.

Great service right there ...

 

[UnconTROLLed]

Great service right there ...

the avg SPC for our center (~75 routes) was +35 the normal avg

 

[Coldworld]

167 stops 480 packages no helper.
74 miles.
1 budget truck dedicated for SurePost
Lots of mountain driving and snow and long driveways with no turnarounds.
ORION calls for 9.5 hours, 11 hours worked.

It's going to be a glorious peak.

Such a scam....

 

[Coldworld]

the avg SPC for our center (~75 routes) was +35 the normal avg

The technology they use to justify these metrics and such are absolutely a lie...anyone with a shred of reality could figure this out...

 

[Brownslave688]

Trailer forecast system is screwed up company wide right now. Some brainiac in IE didn't set the right dates for the Black Friday loads so trailers are appearing with no warning and others are missing.

Hell of a start.

Right now?



I thought this was par for the course.