Ok.
- what is with the 58 miles an hour rule? Wouldn't it be much more efficient to govern at 1 speed and let people log how they run it? This would allow dispatch to maximize the legal driving limit to push freight as far as it will go?
- pay pd drivers on incentive. Give them a reason to want to get more pickups done as well as stops. Reward the ones that work hard.
- dock workers are still loading freight and writing it down. Computerize everything. When the pd driver picks it up it is assigned a bar code. When the dock worker unloads he scans and it tells him exactly where its going. He drives it to the trailer and scans it in the trailer or a location on the dock and now every minute of every day we know where the freight is.
- run a dock incentive program based on the process above. Again, reward the hard workers.
- you could also run a dock standard program based on speed, errors, etc so you can ultimately get rid of the employees costing the company money.
- put your sales people strictly on commission and go ahead hire 300 of them per terminal. If they don't sell, you don't pay them. If everyone of them makes $300k/year then there is more freight than you can imagine.
- force a terminal yard layout that needs to be maintained, and then try to make it universal. Way too much time is spent at certain places looking for trailers.
Also add a large list of small changes in specific terminals. Would this cost money initially? Yep. But the long term benefits would be much cheaper. So go ahead and pick them apart. Tell me how these would be bad for the company. Not certain drivers, the company. Maybe I am way out of my league here, but like I said, this is 2010. Utilize the technology we have. It is there for a reason.
