At out terminal lately, the only thing that seems to be important is making 1.5 stops per hour...This includes pick ups, and deliveries...
This is not bills per hour, it is stops per hour....
It does not matter that you run your ***** off all day long, don't eat a lunch, don't take a ****, don't take a break, and you run 300 miles, if you don't get the required 1.5 stops per hour, then you get told you need to pick up the pace...
Drivers who have been around for 10-15 years and longer, who have done an excellent job over the years with no complaints from anyone, dispatchers, terminal managers or anyone else, are now being told that are not moving fast enough...
If you are at a customers, making a delivery, and you have 5 bills for them, and it is all double stacked, or crushed, or has been taken off the pallet so it will fit, and has to be recouped, that does not matter, this only counts as ONE STOP...It does not matter that they have to count the freight for these five bills, and it may be 3/4 of a trailer of double stacked freight, YOU BETTER HURRY DRIVER, CAUSE THIS ONLY COUNTS FOR ONE STOP...
Same with pick-ups, if you go to a place and load 20-30 bills and you are there for over an hour, you only get credit for 1 stop....
The thing of it is, you can be given stops and pick-ups, and routed in such a way, that their is no way to make this magic number...On the oter hand, you can be routed in such a way that you can make 3 stops per hour...
It does not matter that you take out a truckload of freight, generating revenue of $1500-$2500, and you fill your truck back up with pick-ups to the back door, you run 250-300 miles but the magic number does not come to 1.5 stops, you just didn't do it good enough...
Does the management really think we want to be out until 7:00, 8:00, or later? Believe me, we want to get home to our families...This 1.5 stops per hour thing is destroying the moral of the drivers...Another thing, where are we supposed to find the time to "Ask for ONE MORE SKID"?
If the intent is to destroy the moral of their drivers, they are doing an excellent job. If their intent is to instill fear into thie drivers, who fear they will lose thier jobs because they don't meet the 1.5 stops, they have succeeded at that also....Is this what Mr. Roberts wants? (I doubt its coming from him)
Is this 1.5 stops thing meant to accomplish something else, that is not being stated? There are those who think so...
I know for years, that we felt like the job we did was appreciated, that we were valued...It just seems like that has all gone away....Hey anyone listening?
This is not bills per hour, it is stops per hour....
It does not matter that you run your ***** off all day long, don't eat a lunch, don't take a ****, don't take a break, and you run 300 miles, if you don't get the required 1.5 stops per hour, then you get told you need to pick up the pace...
Drivers who have been around for 10-15 years and longer, who have done an excellent job over the years with no complaints from anyone, dispatchers, terminal managers or anyone else, are now being told that are not moving fast enough...
If you are at a customers, making a delivery, and you have 5 bills for them, and it is all double stacked, or crushed, or has been taken off the pallet so it will fit, and has to be recouped, that does not matter, this only counts as ONE STOP...It does not matter that they have to count the freight for these five bills, and it may be 3/4 of a trailer of double stacked freight, YOU BETTER HURRY DRIVER, CAUSE THIS ONLY COUNTS FOR ONE STOP...
Same with pick-ups, if you go to a place and load 20-30 bills and you are there for over an hour, you only get credit for 1 stop....
The thing of it is, you can be given stops and pick-ups, and routed in such a way, that their is no way to make this magic number...On the oter hand, you can be routed in such a way that you can make 3 stops per hour...
It does not matter that you take out a truckload of freight, generating revenue of $1500-$2500, and you fill your truck back up with pick-ups to the back door, you run 250-300 miles but the magic number does not come to 1.5 stops, you just didn't do it good enough...
Does the management really think we want to be out until 7:00, 8:00, or later? Believe me, we want to get home to our families...This 1.5 stops per hour thing is destroying the moral of the drivers...Another thing, where are we supposed to find the time to "Ask for ONE MORE SKID"?
If the intent is to destroy the moral of their drivers, they are doing an excellent job. If their intent is to instill fear into thie drivers, who fear they will lose thier jobs because they don't meet the 1.5 stops, they have succeeded at that also....Is this what Mr. Roberts wants? (I doubt its coming from him)
Is this 1.5 stops thing meant to accomplish something else, that is not being stated? There are those who think so...
I know for years, that we felt like the job we did was appreciated, that we were valued...It just seems like that has all gone away....Hey anyone listening?