GPS not allowed?

[Dillinger4]

I had an interview yesterday for a seasonal driving position. The HR rep stated that GPS is not allowed because it is a distraction. I agree that GPS can be a distraction if a driver is typing an address on his phone or staring at the screen while driving but if you are sitting in the package truck parked typing in an address or using the speech function and while driving only listening to where the phone is telling you to go and not looking at the screen. i.e. "when you hit elm street turn left" how can that be a distraction?

Also we were told that it is highly probable that we could be running a route one week then a different route the next. So how the hell do you know where you are going? And please don't tell me using traditional maps. You would never get anything delivered.

 

[Indecisi0n]

Because if it takes you 2 minutes to enter each address into GPS and you're running 160 stops that's roughly 2x160= 320 / 60 minutes cones to 5.3 wasted hours in a day.

 

[GenericUsername]

It's considered an in-cab distraction. That's not to say that some of the drivers still don't use one to get them from A to B faster if they aren't familiar in an area. Hell, I've seen supervisors use their GPS on their phone to get them around from time to time.

My advise is that if you must use your phone, do so to look at the streets in a neighborhood to get an idea where the route is taking you. You can do the same on a map too, obviously. Use it only as a reference, but make sure that your vehicle is not in motion while doing so.

But some general advise, if they're hiring you as a seasonal driver, the chances are you'll be running the same area over and over. By the fifth day you'll be fine and know generally where you are going with very little need to ever look at a map. I got lucky and was put on a mall route when I came on originally with 6 apartment complexes in addition to it.

 

[Wally]

GPS? We don't need no stinkin' GPS!

 

[Operational needs]

So how the hell do you know where you are going? And please don't tell me using traditional maps. You would never get anything delivered.

Umm, how do you think packages got delivered before GPS?

 

[bleedinbrown58]

I had an interview yesterday for a seasonal driving position. The HR rep stated that GPS is not allowed because it is a distraction. I agree that GPS can be a distraction if a driver is typing an address on his phone or staring at the screen while driving but if you are sitting in the package truck parked typing in an address or using the speech function and while driving only listening to where the phone is telling you to go and not looking at the screen. i.e. "when you hit elm street turn left" how can that be a distraction?

Also we were told that it is highly probable that we could be running a route one week then a different route the next. So how the hell do you know where you are going? And please don't tell me using traditional maps. You would never get anything delivered.

This company has been in business long before the internet was invented. Do you think GPS on smartphones was available years ago? And yet somehow, packages still got delivered.

 

[Faceplanted]

Millennials

Who knows what these people would do with a truck full of boxes and no Edd, Orion or gps.

 

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I am a GPS. ONLY FOOD AND BEER REQUIRED

 

[Wally]

The newer GPS generation is a bunch of candy- arsed pansy's! Wahaaa, I need EDD...Wahaaa, I need GPS...lol

 

[bleedinbrown58]

Fyi...so this thread is by a guy who doesn't even work here who thinks he knows how to do the job better than the guys who actually work here.
Hmmmm......Maybe I should call Pizza hut and give them insight on how they could make pizza that tastes better than the box it comes in.

 

[Covemastah]

I had an interview yesterday for a seasonal driving position. The HR rep stated that GPS is not allowed because it is a distraction. I agree that GPS can be a distraction if a driver is typing an address on his phone or staring at the screen while driving but if you are sitting in the package truck parked typing in an address or using the speech function and while driving only listening to where the phone is telling you to go and not looking at the screen. i.e. "when you hit elm street turn left" how can that be a distraction?

Also we were told that it is highly probable that we could be running a route one week then a different route the next. So how the hell do you know where you are going? And please don't tell me using traditional maps. You would never get anything delivered.

Oh really !!
How the hell do you think us older guys got stuff to your soccer moms house back in the day !! Maps !!! We learned the neighborhood better than the residents knew it !!
Tuffn up kid!!!

 

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Especially using Seth 's voice when reading

 

[Covemastah]

And none of us got a trophy at the end of the day !!

 

[Wally]

Newbie wimps: Get your clipboard and pickup log, calls, and one shots, and get er' done.

Don't forget a extra time card because you have extra splits with separate area codes!

 

[Covemastah]

Newbie wimps: Get your clipboard and pickup log, calls, and one shots, and get er' done.

Don't forget a extra time card because you have extra splits with separate area codes!

Don't forget to sign off in the call tag book at end of day

 

[hondo]

Your delivery/pickup stops will be listed in a suggested/recommended order. If you can't look at a map and figure out to go up route A for 4 stops, then turn right on B street for 2 stops, then left on C drive for 3 stops; then this job probably isn't for you. Plan out your next 5-10 stops (by looking at your map if needed), then go (without wasting time while knocking them out).That's one of the easier aspects of the job.

Also, you would need an auxiliary battery for your GPS/phone; no charging it from the truck.

 

[Wally]

Also, don't screw up the check COD plus cash.

 

[rod]

Going back when you found one more package for a stop was common----and it counted as another stop (even if it wasn't suppose to )

 

[Wally]

Don't forget to sign off in the call tag book at end of day

Turn in took over 20 minutes.

 

[rod]

Turn in took over 20 minutes.

longer---- on those days when management had left the building at noon and wasn't coming back.