Let Me put this in perspective for You...
Those of You - doing Turns... more then likely aren't going to be affected and Your perfect lives will continue - unaffected!
Dramatic changes have changed the landscape of how out of touch with reality the Overnite mythology of administering Line Haul runs really was (and is)...
Peer into how Your terminal Runs are administered...
Starting with the Run numbers themselves...
These Run numbers mean something!
They are the DNA of Scheduling and Dispatching and in what order...
Now see the changes that weren't a contributing factor - in the Past...
Starting with Organizing and being bound by the legal requirements of a contract...
Flexibility with the Legal Requirements was acceptable and a significant part of life - prior to Ratification!
It was easy to < Right Your Own Check > before... wasn't it?
Then take in consideration the significant down turn in the Economy...
And the Serious Implications - as a result...
Lay-offs!
Significant Lay-offs!
Prior to this down turn... Overnite would just not schedule certain individuals for the next day...
These Lay-offs have created havoc not only with the City Operation but, with the Road!
Lay-offs of Road Drivers...
And the Elimination of Line Haul Runs...
Have now - Exposed the problem with Scheduling, Assigning of Loads, Dispatching and in what Order...
According to the DNA - structure...
Central Dispatchers are unaccustomed to Adjustment and or Flexibility!
Compound that with their inabilities of recognizing Road Drivers actual Start Times...
Under these current conditions... and with all the contributing factors involved...
Obviously, the Main Frame dispatching system needs to be Revamped!
I will guarantee You that they are still working with a system that is 15 years old - if not older!
Now bring all these contributing factors together...
Turns will remain - unaffected...
Mini-Hub runs will start to feel the crunch - factoring in the legal requirements of Hours of Service (although, most of the drivers that participate in these mini hub schedules have been doing it for a while [because they have built in that extra money from the dock time - into their weekly payroll expectations] they will be able to negotiate their needs more effectively - and will be allowed to complete their runs - within their legal limits... just because they have been doing it so long [they will be taken care of])...
Schedules and Undefined Schedules (leftovers from the economic reductions) are going to be the ones affected most significantly!
They are (obviously Myself included) are the ones that are going to be pushed to the legal limits in regards to Hours of Service... because there is no-one left over...
Central has not been permitted to use XTRA Board drivers - all winter...
If an XTRA Board does cover - that XTRA Board driver isn't dispatched according to Seniority Order... but, in accordance to what run that particular driver is covering...
Not allowing the one day relief necessary (or more - depending how long this XTRA Board driver covers) - permitting a Schedule driver to be released earlier then they have been (recently)
If Central and Hub personnel isn't going to listen to the people...
And they are not going to make adjustments in accordance to what is being communicated to them... when particular individuals expressing their need of being released prior to the normal extension of current dispatching conditions...
Then and only then is this problem going to occur!
The 16/14 and 10 Hours off will overlap...
And will not fully understood by anyone other then the Schedules affected - since they are the only ones being stretched beyond their legal limits... due to the economic down turn and work force reductions that weren’t a contributing factor just a few months ago!
This has only reared it's ugly head in recent months!
Shutting down and being told that Hours of Service in accordance to Centrals Past Understandings is different... then it really is...
Cannot be fully understood... unless You've done it or dealt with it personally!
i don't know why everybody makes it so complacated.
Because this place makes it difficult!
This company was built off of and administered around the Zero Tolerance Policy of the past...
This one policy provides the shield and blanketed cover (or cover-up) in many of these similar cases necessary for allowing them to operate un-touched and without boundaries!
Expose a problem (or potential concern) and You will become the problem and or concern!
Do it as they administer (because they are not going to change) or be taken out in accordance to the Zero Tolerance conditions (however general in nature they use it)