retired2000
Well-Known Member
talked to a ups driver here in syracuse new york today and they have started to put key less start on the package cars. he was told by doing this they can add 10 stops a day to each driver. boy am i glad i retired!!!
he was told by doing this they can add 10 stops a day to each driver
IE Land...where packages are loaded in order and never need to be sorted? Where traffic doesn't exist and garbage trucks never block the road? Where every driveway is flat and customers are waiting by the door to answer it the second the bell is rung? Where pickups are always ready and only weigh 2lbs each? Where apartment deliveries are always on the first floor and a signed InfoNotice is always waiting? Are you talking about that IE Land?it was done by computer in IE land
You guys are going to love keyless entry once all the kinks get worked out! I mean the bulk head door opens AUTOMATICALLY...The SPH I can understand your concerns, but for the convenience factor, the feedback I've gotten from some of the drivers has been overwhelmingly positive.
You guys are going to love keyless entry once all the kinks get worked out! I mean the bulk head door opens AUTOMATICALLY...The SPH I can understand your concerns, but for the convenience factor, the feedback I've gotten from some of the drivers has been overwhelmingly positive.
Do you mean it opens automatically, or it unlocks automatically?
They said that about PAS in our building almost 8 years ago. We're still waiting!You guys are going to love keyless entry once all the kinks get worked out! .
They said that about PAS in our building almost 8 years ago. We're still waiting!
Center manager told us already, 10 extra stops to each driver. he was told stops per car must go up, period.
And once one car in a building has been equipped with keyless entry....every route in that building will operate under the new "allowance" regardless of whether the vehicle that delivers it has had the keyless entry system installed yet or not.
I am still trying to wrap my head around the "logic" of taking an obsolete 25 yr old package car with manual steering and the ergonomics of an iron maiden...and then investing hundreds of dollars to equip it with keyless entry for the 4 or 5 years that it might theoretically remain in service. It sort of reminds me of when my building went ahead and installed Telematics in a couple of old shop spare P-500's....only to yank the sensors right back out a couple months later when they hauled the damn things off to be crushed.
The observed savings for Keyless entry is 6 minutes per driver as has been mentioned here.
The fully loaded wage rate for a driver is about $1 per minute, so keyless entry is worth about $6 per day.
Using 250 days per year, keyless entry is worth about $1,500 per year.
If installation costs $750 it pays for itself after 6 months use.
In the example given, putting it in a vehicle that can get use out of it for 4 or 5 years provides a pretty nice benefit.