It tells you 1 load a day average...is that the daily average say 7 loads per week = 1 per day?
too bad it didn't have a daily average....like 3 loads Thurs. 4 loads Friday...on a Saturday you'd know you have a 3 day wait "maybe". But then I'd hazard to guess P2 would want the area covered "just in case"
Well, a daily average, like 3 loads on Thursdays, 4 loads on Fridays, how many Thursdays and Fridays do you need to get a representative example? And by the time you get enough of them, you're into a different quarter where those old numbers aren't relevant. How many loads you do on a Thursday in January may mean nothing in March.
The daily load average we get from Panther is the average number of loads in the last 5 days, weekends not included. If 10 loads have gone out in the last 5 days, that's an average of 2 a day.
Boards with multiple loads, the averages can be dealt with, but those boards that indicate one load per day is a crapshoot in the dark. All that means is that more than 1 load and less than 7 loads have gone out of there in the last 5 days. Might be that 2 loads have gone out of there in the last 5 days, 7 days if you include the weekend, and you're sitting there expecting a load a day to go out, when in reality both of those 2 loads went out on the same day, a week ago, and it may be another week before another load goes out.
A 21 day average is better, but even better would be the actual numbers, numbers which dispatch has at their fingertips, numbers that can be sent over the QC just as easily as the 5-day average figures are now. I'd much rather see "7 Loads in the last 21 Days", or "26 Loads in the last 21 Days", rather than "1 Load Average in the last 5 Days".
It's more precise, the communication clearer, and it gives me more information with which to make an informed decision.
