Say you had 3 deliveries spaced apart. Which order would you do them. Furthest away then heading back towards home. Or closet 1st then long drive back home?.
I prefer do furthest 1 away set off early miss the traffic then for rest of the day im heading towards home
Where are you back loading?
Why would you drag the whole load to the farthest point?
What are the booking times?
edd1974:
Say you had 3 deliveries spaced apart. Which order would you do them. Furthest away then heading back towards home. Or closet 1st then long drive back home?.
I prefer do furthest 1 away set off early miss the traffic then for rest of the day im heading towards home
No set rule. Depends on many things : how the drops have been loaded, what traffic you are likely to encounter at different times of the day by doing them in a different order, also the times at which the delivery/collection points go for lunch. Getting 1 or more of the above “wrong” can add hours to your day.
i do it as its planned even though it’s ■■■■■■■■ half the time , as know a lad who got sacked for doing the job his way and it went ■■■■ up that day and nigh on a full load got rejected
^^^^ that. Usually backloads (always assuming that you are collecting one) are pencilled in from the furthest delivery. If it was your fuel you’d want to be lightest as quickly as possible.
Forgetting the fuel for a moment… I’d want as much weight off as quickly as possible for vehicle handling purposes so that’s also something I’d consider
Depends on opening times too.
Not your shout, that’s what planners do
I’ve always done deliveries starting with the closest first. You’re getting the weight off as you go and are giving yourself more time to complete deliveries as opposed to driving however far out and having a smaller window time for deliveries, possibly.
No hard and fast rules here, whatever suits opening and any booked/promised times, weight distribution during partial loading, reload time and place, and depending what sort of vehicle you drive bridge and tree heights might influence routing.
Depending on the job involved, ie specialised work, its highly unlikely planners will know the job intricacies like a driver, so they don’t route just ask the driver to prioritise if a customer has made the request.
The one the company wants me to do first. Never mess with drop order without office permission
switchlogic:
The one the company wants me to do first. Never mess with drop order without office permission
This. We often get subbies questioning the order of deliveries on the runs they’re given and they’re told in no uncertain terms not to deviate from the order. Whilst the order may make no sense to the driver there are reasons they are done that way, often to do with the fact the stores will be getting multiple deliveries and they don’t want two wagons in at the same time or because there’ll be one store in the run that’s got a pallet collection.
Where I work don’t do booking in slots etc just deliver when ever. As long as on that day. Upto driver most of the time which way he goes. Unless odd load does have a delivery timed slot.
Normally the closest one gets delivered first…but i would ask the office what they prefer, that way theres no come backs as you can always have someone to blame…some are not as fussy and leave it up to the driver to work out his own routes.
I picked a loaded trailer up one morning and checked the load and the notes, the delivery on the back was for the furthest away and closest to my depot. The notes said, must be delivered before 11am on the date, which was Friday. I tipped that one before 11am, the phone rang asking where I was. I told them. The phone went quiet, then it exploded. Why have you tipped that first? Because that’s what it said on the Paperwork and they go home at 12 on Fridays.
The load I had tipped was an emergency generator, the factory had booked a crane and engineers were working all weekend. The planner wanted me to deliver the other two drops first and tell the factory I had broken down. In that instance I was in the wrong but had saved the company some earache, but the other drops didn’t get there until Monday. I was home for lunchtime Friday with a nice steady job for Monday. [emoji23]
The planner knows best, and if a customer asks if I have had a puncture, breakdown or death in the family I always say NO, unless I have.
Some planners think drivers have 7 grandparents [emoji12]
switchlogic:
The one the company wants me to do first. Never mess with drop order without office permission
^ This
I did a bulk delivery/collection job and I always followed the management’s planning of them and usually with no need for any alterations to that plan from the point of leaving the yard.While the timing is usually decided between the guvnor and the customer.It was only class 3 but was more or less the best and nicest job I ever did and would have happily stayed on it until retirement.