Dracula
Package Car is cake compared to this...
This is an interesting link about trucking companies and their quest to improve efficiency. The funny thing is the companies talk about being concerned with the way their drivers feel, as a path to reducing costs. Haha.
Two things: what UPS tells these journalists always stretches the truth and in practice, UPS more resembles the federal government, as a huge bureaucracy, where the ideas at the top rarely get implemented as intended at the ground level. As the UPS rep says, routes are designed with lunches and breaks in mind. How many believe that? And they claim that the emotional well-being of the driver is figured into the route. We all know THAT isn't the case at UPS.
Anyway, an interesting read.
Unhappy Truckers and Other Algorithmic Problems - Issue 3: In Transit - Nautilus
Two things: what UPS tells these journalists always stretches the truth and in practice, UPS more resembles the federal government, as a huge bureaucracy, where the ideas at the top rarely get implemented as intended at the ground level. As the UPS rep says, routes are designed with lunches and breaks in mind. How many believe that? And they claim that the emotional well-being of the driver is figured into the route. We all know THAT isn't the case at UPS.
Anyway, an interesting read.
Unhappy Truckers and Other Algorithmic Problems - Issue 3: In Transit - Nautilus