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<blockquote data-quote="Richard Harrow" data-source="post: 1629389" data-attributes="member: 29614"><p>Yes, well where this particular house of God is located, there are a number of transients and crackheads. Any package that's not nailed down in these parts will go missing.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>They have ways of adjusting the system to optimize the run. It's actually pretty impressive.</p><p></p><p>They can change AM & PM "trace importance", it has a "depart time" feature that allows the system to determine how much ground can be done before 10:30, they can pull up a particular address and enter open and close times, they can highlight areas on the map and make it so you finish or start your day in that particular area, they can set it up where if you have a particular residential section (say something that's relatively far from the center of your route) that ORION will not make you come out of that section until it's all done, they can change delivery points (say 100 Maple is delivered at the back of the building on Oak Street, that can be changed).</p><p></p><p>The biggest problems with ORION, at least in my opinion, are that it's too in-depth (all the controls), it's time-based (what if you hit traffic; break down?), and it is a computer application that doesn't have the ability to reason (unsafe K & U turns).</p><p></p><p>I've been working (compensated, of course) with a sup a few minutes each day making ORION "smarter". </p><p></p><p>Every day the difference is a little bit more noticeable, and the funniest (or saddest, depending upon which side you're on) part is that every day that goes by, ORION gets a little bit closer to mirroring how I ran my route for years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richard Harrow, post: 1629389, member: 29614"] Yes, well where this particular house of God is located, there are a number of transients and crackheads. Any package that's not nailed down in these parts will go missing. They have ways of adjusting the system to optimize the run. It's actually pretty impressive. They can change AM & PM "trace importance", it has a "depart time" feature that allows the system to determine how much ground can be done before 10:30, they can pull up a particular address and enter open and close times, they can highlight areas on the map and make it so you finish or start your day in that particular area, they can set it up where if you have a particular residential section (say something that's relatively far from the center of your route) that ORION will not make you come out of that section until it's all done, they can change delivery points (say 100 Maple is delivered at the back of the building on Oak Street, that can be changed). The biggest problems with ORION, at least in my opinion, are that it's too in-depth (all the controls), it's time-based (what if you hit traffic; break down?), and it is a computer application that doesn't have the ability to reason (unsafe K & U turns). I've been working (compensated, of course) with a sup a few minutes each day making ORION "smarter". Every day the difference is a little bit more noticeable, and the funniest (or saddest, depending upon which side you're on) part is that every day that goes by, ORION gets a little bit closer to mirroring how I ran my route for years. [/QUOTE]
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