i would add for newbie multidrop bods dont be phased by the volume of drops you see in your pile etc because a person will soon start saying to themselve theyll never be able to deliver all those parcels and the more you say that to yourself youll be right and bring half the parcels back etc just relax lol and think your way round your route whilst still in the depot whilst putting your parcels in drop order that way youll overcome any problems on your route before you leave the depot eg you cant get to a collection on time or you wont be able to get to a timed delivery eg a before 10am or a before 1wam parcel in time etc tell your manager while you are still in the depot as the manager can take thatdelivery off you and give ut to another driver that is still in the depot but not alot a manafercan do if you take the parcel out on the road with you and then you realise you wobt get to delivery or collection in tine etc overcome obstacles at the depot before leaving depot it makeslife so much easier etc hope this helps
multidrop is a gym on wheels and multidrop is all about pace but loading a van etc i much preferrred sorting parcels in groups on the floor eg this industrial estate and that industrial estate and town centre and villages and private addresses etc and i never used to route a pedestrianised town centre route by time bollards went up as i used a sack barrow to deliver to a pedestrianised high st with bollards etc high volume multidrop drivers tend to put every drop on the floor in drop order in lines then scan the route in one go which is slower loadibg up but much faster way of delivering out on route A person would only need a parcel app for the first week or so on a route then after a week of doing a route the driver starts doing the route the way that suits them best and just puts the 10 or so addresses tgey dont know in to a sat nav or map but i would still have a street atlas of route in van if doing a multidrop route but i left multidrop behind a decade or so ago
Morning Pete.Listened to podcast first time yesterday.Volume is fine👍Loading wise best I ever managed at Hermes(90 drops) was divide back of car into three lines front to back and put packages in postcode order with two bags in footwell for two separate villages.Bag on passenger seat with seatbelt on so wing mirror visible and bag secure.I also swear by the green 300 litre garden waste bags with the red handles on top and sides but tbh I’d never deliver in a car ever again.Btw nobody has ever done a vid on whether multidrop does actually kill starter motors and clog dpf filters...
Pete I can draw from my vast experience (ha ha ) Draw the deliveries on the A-Z map in blue ,draw the collections in red ! Chuck it all in the back , jump in the cab ,put your foot down turn the radio up and forget about it !
One trick with loading up the van is to put tape down on the floor, down the centre of the van then tape off boxes, 4, 6, or 8, however many is sensible and then number those boxes, so back left is 1, front right by the door is 8 and then when you input to Circuit, you just say, 'LU8 1PC in box 3'. Then it's fully organised and clear, because left middle could be a bit vague and tape won't get in the way of the sack barrow or a palette, etc.
I find the best way would be to sort them out into post code orders. Such as on my run at Yodel on the SR4 6's SR4 7's and SR4 0's sort them into piles before you put them on the van then scan them and optimise the route. I would place the last drop on the van first on the floor in the corner behind the drivers seat. First stops on the passenger seats. So as you say it is illegal to carry parcels in the front but they are your first drops, hope you not get caught on your first couple stops. Its all good using the circuit app saying where you put each parcel in the van such as on the floor in the middle on the right side in front of the wheel arch. What if you press optimise and then that parcel becomes your first drop, you will have to unload almost 50 parcels off the back to get to the first one. On this Holcrofts back on the milk. I do 78 drops leaving Peterlee at around 9pm going across to Cockfield and Woodland in the sticks up by Barnard castle way. Do a few villages before dropping into Darlington for a few drops and then down into Croft and a few villages around there before going into Northallerton and then into RAF Leeming off the A1, then couple villages before going into Bedale and Snape. Then head back towards Thirsk and do couple drops in the villages before heading back into Northallerton for a couple more stops, one is actually over the road from the old prison. I never seen it in the dark at 2am before. Well, not from the outside looking in. My old cell is a converted office space now. Emotional! From Northallerton, I head upto Stokesley after dropping in a couple more villages and then Guisborough, Whitby, Saltburn and then around Middlesbrough before the final couple drops just before heading back into Peterlee. On the milk though, it is not sorted in drops. I loaded up 240 bottles of semi 2 litre milk, 80 bottles of 1 litre semi, 3 bottles of 500ml semi and then 540 tiny cartons of milk in packs of 10. Only deliver to schools. I thought they stop school milk when I was a kid.
My perspective Bang the lot into the app as quickly as you can . When you have them all out on the floor group while at it so say b77 into 1 pile , b78 into the next etc , just kick into piles to save 20 minutes The app knocks out an order .... get your pen out and write the order number on the label in black felt tip . Allocate areas of the van to the numbers so 1-20 in the side door working back toward the rear doors and dont whatever you do brake hard in the day . The reason to feed out the side door is simply that if its going back as no-ones in or you have a collection you fill this space and it becomes the dont bother to look part of the van . Pick up a parcel .... doesnt matter where it is , write the number across the label and fit in the van in the appropriate place . Some use boxies to place 10 items into .... thats ok but never worked for me . Some would place in the van in exacting order back doors to front which is ok but collections and not ins hit the back and are in the friggin way plus you have to allow space for this instead of it happening as you drop . Others come up with odd systems of colour from marker pens to denote areas , sod that . A pen , an app , write the number of the drop thats also listed on the app , you cant go wrong this way . Only falling down is the long stuff thats fed through the back , take a quick note on a bit of paper ..... number 34 long , 47 long etc etc so you can find it quickly in the back if this is needed . The asian lads tend to bung 50 quid a day to a lacky to play hunt the parcel . On hermies or yodel it means you can clear 300+ in a day as they suss where everything is in the focus c-max , drive with 4 parcels a time on their lap and drop stuff off for you also . When you see them clear 50 drops in a street in 20 minutes you start thinking who do you know who wants to earn a few quid i can tell ya . It certainly doesnt hurt to have 3 or more in the front ready to be dropped as is standard practice .
oh and not sure if circuit does this but others you can add a note . long , 3 in the same road , not sure of addy etc etc can all be added and can skim off a serious amount of time in the day .
i would add for newbie multidrop bods
dont be phased by the volume of drops you see in your pile etc because a person will soon start saying to themselve theyll never be able to deliver all those parcels and the more you say that to yourself youll be right and bring half the parcels back etc
just relax lol and think your way round your route whilst still in the depot whilst putting your parcels in drop order that way youll overcome any problems on your route before you leave the depot eg you cant get to a collection on time or you wont be able to get to a timed delivery eg a before 10am or a before 1wam parcel in time etc tell your manager while you are still in the depot as the manager can take thatdelivery off you and give ut to another driver that is still in the depot but not alot a manafercan do if you take the parcel out on the road with you and then you realise you wobt get to delivery or collection in tine etc overcome obstacles at the depot before leaving depot it makeslife so much easier etc hope this helps
The best way to do multi-drop is load all parcels in order by the last 3 digits of the postcode.
example: 4DE, 4DF, 4DH and so on.
multidrop is a gym on wheels and multidrop is all about pace
but loading a van etc
i much preferrred sorting parcels in groups on the floor eg this industrial estate and that industrial estate and town centre and villages and private addresses etc and i never used to route a pedestrianised town centre route by time bollards went up as i used a sack barrow to deliver to a pedestrianised high st with bollards etc
high volume multidrop drivers tend to put every drop on the floor in drop order in lines then scan the route in one go which is slower loadibg up but much faster way of delivering out on route
A person would only need a parcel app for the first week or so on a route then after a week of doing a route the driver starts doing the route the way that suits them best and just puts the 10 or so addresses tgey dont know in to a sat nav or map but i would still have a street atlas of route in van if doing a multidrop route but i left multidrop behind a decade or so ago
Morning Pete.Listened to podcast first time yesterday.Volume is fine👍Loading wise best I ever managed at Hermes(90 drops) was divide back of car into three lines front to back and put packages in postcode order with two bags in footwell for two separate villages.Bag on passenger seat with seatbelt on so wing mirror visible and bag secure.I also swear by the green 300 litre garden waste bags with the red handles on top and sides but tbh I’d never deliver in a car ever again.Btw nobody has ever done a vid on whether multidrop does actually kill starter motors and clog dpf filters...
Pete I can draw from my vast experience (ha ha ) Draw the deliveries on the A-Z map in blue ,draw the collections in red ! Chuck it all in the back , jump in the cab ,put your foot down turn the radio up and forget about it !
One trick with loading up the van is to put tape down on the floor, down the centre of the van then tape off boxes, 4, 6, or 8, however many is sensible and then number those boxes, so back left is 1, front right by the door is 8 and then when you input to Circuit, you just say, 'LU8 1PC in box 3'. Then it's fully organised and clear, because left middle could be a bit vague and tape won't get in the way of the sack barrow or a palette, etc.
I find the best way would be to sort them out into post code orders. Such as on my run at Yodel on the SR4 6's SR4 7's and SR4 0's sort them into piles before you put them on the van then scan them and optimise the route. I would place the last drop on the van first on the floor in the corner behind the drivers seat. First stops on the passenger seats. So as you say it is illegal to carry parcels in the front but they are your first drops, hope you not get caught on your first couple stops.
Its all good using the circuit app saying where you put each parcel in the van such as on the floor in the middle on the right side in front of the wheel arch. What if you press optimise and then that parcel becomes your first drop, you will have to unload almost 50 parcels off the back to get to the first one.
On this Holcrofts back on the milk. I do 78 drops leaving Peterlee at around 9pm going across to Cockfield and Woodland in the sticks up by Barnard castle way. Do a few villages before dropping into Darlington for a few drops and then down into Croft and a few villages around there before going into Northallerton and then into RAF Leeming off the A1, then couple villages before going into Bedale and Snape. Then head back towards Thirsk and do couple drops in the villages before heading back into Northallerton for a couple more stops, one is actually over the road from the old prison. I never seen it in the dark at 2am before. Well, not from the outside looking in. My old cell is a converted office space now. Emotional! From Northallerton, I head upto Stokesley after dropping in a couple more villages and then Guisborough, Whitby, Saltburn and then around Middlesbrough before the final couple drops just before heading back into Peterlee. On the milk though, it is not sorted in drops. I loaded up 240 bottles of semi 2 litre milk, 80 bottles of 1 litre semi, 3 bottles of 500ml semi and then 540 tiny cartons of milk in packs of 10. Only deliver to schools. I thought they stop school milk when I was a kid.
My perspective
Bang the lot into the app as quickly as you can . When you have them all out on the floor group while at it so say b77 into 1 pile , b78 into the next etc , just kick into piles to save 20 minutes
The app knocks out an order .... get your pen out and write the order number on the label in black felt tip .
Allocate areas of the van to the numbers so 1-20 in the side door working back toward the rear doors and dont whatever you do brake hard in the day . The reason to feed out the side door is simply that if its going back as no-ones in or you have a collection you fill this space and it becomes the dont bother to look part of the van . Pick up a parcel .... doesnt matter where it is , write the number across the label and fit in the van in the appropriate place .
Some use boxies to place 10 items into .... thats ok but never worked for me . Some would place in the van in exacting order back doors to front which is ok but collections and not ins hit the back and are in the friggin way plus you have to allow space for this instead of it happening as you drop . Others come up with odd systems of colour from marker pens to denote areas , sod that . A pen , an app , write the number of the drop thats also listed on the app , you cant go wrong this way . Only falling down is the long stuff thats fed through the back , take a quick note on a bit of paper ..... number 34 long , 47 long etc etc so you can find it quickly in the back if this is needed .
The asian lads tend to bung 50 quid a day to a lacky to play hunt the parcel . On hermies or yodel it means you can clear 300+ in a day as they suss where everything is in the focus c-max , drive with 4 parcels a time on their lap and drop stuff off for you also . When you see them clear 50 drops in a street in 20 minutes you start thinking who do you know who wants to earn a few quid i can tell ya . It certainly doesnt hurt to have 3 or more in the front ready to be dropped as is standard practice .
oh and not sure if circuit does this but others you can add a note . long , 3 in the same road , not sure of addy etc etc can all be added and can skim off a serious amount of time in the day .
Ive been looking everywhere to find if it was legal to load some parcel/goods into passenger side of the van. Can anyone help with this please?
I'll chuck the quesion out on Sundays Q & A and see if we can get you a response.
@@PetetheCourierDriver Much appreciated mate..