One group I worked with they were yelling they did not have enough drivers. But we sent someone over and watched how they ran their op for a few weeks. The re

One group I worked with they were yelling they did not have enough drivers. But we sent someone over and watched how they ran their op for a few weeks. The real issue was they had one guy who would only come in at 6:30AM sharp. The entire org had somehow worked itself around that one hard requirement. He was also the guy who signed off on shipments. So lines of trucks would sit waiting empty because no one could leave until it was signed off. They thought they needed more drivers because shipments were low. Just to keep up and more loaders to load the items. Drivers would show at 9 and would not even roll out until 1. When the real solution was to hire 2 more people to sign off on orders and put them on different shifts. Throwing more money at the problem would never fix it. They just did not have enough space for that many drivers to show up at the same time. They had designed their whole shipping system around max capacity at a particular time. They started adding more shipping capacity to cover it. When they really needed to shift when the work was happening. Once they fixed that they actually found they had overstaffed on drivers. They quickly found those guys more work as they were putting off orders because of capacity. The new rules are brutal on that sort of fix.