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<blockquote data-quote="Brownnblue" data-source="post: 667973" data-attributes="member: 1941"><p>Cody:</p><p> All of the answers posts in this thread are accurate. There is one suggestion I'd like to make that I have not seen touched on.</p><p> I started driving in the mid 80s when GPS was a baseball statistic. I cut my teeth on route jumping, which means that I would basically fill in for the drivers who were on vacation. This meant often going into areas with which I had little or no familiarity. What I would do to plan out a route was this: I would get a copy of map, or even better, a copy of a map of just the area I had to deliver to. Then I would look at the street names of the packages, then highlight them on the map. This would give me a sort of "mental snapshot" that I could use to plan the route as best as possible. I found it very helpful to kind of focus in on where the streets with deliveries are. It also gave me my first taste of managerial arrogance, as one supervisor asked me if I knew how to use a highlighter.</p><p> Fast forward to today. Most of the routes and areas are now laid out in advance, as the previous posters have pointed out. However, on an average route, it is unlikely that you will have a delivery for every street on your route. If a GPS could be developed that highlighted the streets that a driver had deliveries for when the route was dispatched, it could be useful to the novice driver. This could be done in advance in conjunction with PAS, and I would think that it would be much easier for the driver to manipulate the screen data to what is most useful to him/her at that time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brownnblue, post: 667973, member: 1941"] Cody: All of the answers posts in this thread are accurate. There is one suggestion I'd like to make that I have not seen touched on. I started driving in the mid 80s when GPS was a baseball statistic. I cut my teeth on route jumping, which means that I would basically fill in for the drivers who were on vacation. This meant often going into areas with which I had little or no familiarity. What I would do to plan out a route was this: I would get a copy of map, or even better, a copy of a map of just the area I had to deliver to. Then I would look at the street names of the packages, then highlight them on the map. This would give me a sort of "mental snapshot" that I could use to plan the route as best as possible. I found it very helpful to kind of focus in on where the streets with deliveries are. It also gave me my first taste of managerial arrogance, as one supervisor asked me if I knew how to use a highlighter. Fast forward to today. Most of the routes and areas are now laid out in advance, as the previous posters have pointed out. However, on an average route, it is unlikely that you will have a delivery for every street on your route. If a GPS could be developed that highlighted the streets that a driver had deliveries for when the route was dispatched, it could be useful to the novice driver. This could be done in advance in conjunction with PAS, and I would think that it would be much easier for the driver to manipulate the screen data to what is most useful to him/her at that time. [/QUOTE]
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