- Step 1: Please look at the time of arrival at the pickup address in the work order/job description allocated to you mentioned by the customer or agreed by the sales team. Being punctual at the time mentioned in the work order/job description is essential to ensure professionalism and customer satisfaction.
- Step 2: Before you start from base location, please ensure that you have calculated or estimated the time to reach the customer pickup address, based on the GPS that you use (GPS used could be a google map or Waze app or any kind of GPS device/tracker). Base location can be a home for the first job of the day or the drop-off of the previous work order/job or it can be anywhere during the transit.
- Step 3: Avoid toll routes and ensure that the lower overhead bridges are avoided or matched with the truck’s height. The 4.5 tonne trucks require an overhead clearance of 3.4m.
- Step 4: Inform customer of your arrival time as soon as you have estimated the time to reach the pickup address. It is expected that the customer is informed of your arrival at least 30 minutes prior to you reaching the pickup address, so that the customer is prepared for the move when you reach the pickup address. Please always speak slowly and clearly to ensure that the customer understands what you are trying to convey. Its always better to confirm the pickup address while discussing the arrival time to ensure that the address mentioned in the work order/job description matches with that of the address that the customer is expecting you to pick up the items from.
- Step 5: It is always a good idea to check with the customer on the parking availability to ensure that the customer makes the parking spot available for you by the time you reach the pickup address.
- Step 6: If for any reason, including traffic congestion or due to any other personal or professional reason, you are getting delayed to reach the customer pickup address on the time that you communicated earlier or as mentioned in the work order/job description, please inform the customer immediately to ensure that communication between you and the customer is open, honest and transparent. Please be very polite in your communication, especially when the customer tries to argue with you on the delay. Please be considerate and understand the issues that the customer could face due to the delay in moving the items. Please provide as many details for the delay as possible to the customer explaining him the facts and do not try to fabricate incidents to justify your claims for delay. Customers are well-versed with the environment, the time of issues observed in the environment and foreseeable weather conditions.