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<blockquote data-quote="FracusBrown" data-source="post: 757272" data-attributes="member: 29360"><p>QUOTE=browned out;755060]<span style="color: DarkOliveGreen">Now that UPS has invested 100's of millions of dollars to roll out telematics; maybe next year they can use some of that money to cut prices and get some of the fed ex letter business. They will more likely buy pedometers and require every driver and hourly to wear them and make sure they are moving at the required sense of purpose pace.</span></p></blockquote><p></p><p>I think the value of telematics is way overstated, but the cost is far less than 100's of millions. Cost is about $700 per vehicle plus cost of receiver units in the buildings. A typical driver delivers more the $500,000 of package revenue per year. Cutting each package cost by .01 dollars (one penny x 200 pieces per day x 250 days) would generate about a $500 savings to the customer. Hardly enough to make a difference in sales or revenue.</p><p> </p><p>It is claimed that every center that has telematics has saved for more the the install cost. If it's like most other cost savings, it really just means the cost was shifted somewhere else thats not being tracked.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="FracusBrown, post: 757272, member: 29360"] QUOTE=browned out;755060][COLOR=DarkOliveGreen]Now that UPS has invested 100's of millions of dollars to roll out telematics; maybe next year they can use some of that money to cut prices and get some of the fed ex letter business. They will more likely buy pedometers and require every driver and hourly to wear them and make sure they are moving at the required sense of purpose pace.[/COLOR][/QUOTE] I think the value of telematics is way overstated, but the cost is far less than 100's of millions. Cost is about $700 per vehicle plus cost of receiver units in the buildings. A typical driver delivers more the $500,000 of package revenue per year. Cutting each package cost by .01 dollars (one penny x 200 pieces per day x 250 days) would generate about a $500 savings to the customer. Hardly enough to make a difference in sales or revenue. It is claimed that every center that has telematics has saved for more the the install cost. If it's like most other cost savings, it really just means the cost was shifted somewhere else thats not being tracked. [/QUOTE]
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