I have been racking my brain over and over again trying to figure out the REAL reason for telematics. IF its true that they cant discipline over things that are found out through telematics then whats the point? They cant dispatch worth a hoot right now and keep people from 9.5 and all telematics is going to do is slow drivers down so guess what. 9.5 days are going to go up. You guys already running this am I right in thinking this at all? I just dont see the point in spending millions of dollars on something that we just flat out dont need. UPS is talking about cutting costs and such then why spend money on something such as this? We are already watched, spied on, and manipulated enough! Anybody out there know the REAL reason???
OK this is just my opinion,and I'm just a driver,like you from what I read.
The shareholders have a problem with controlling costs in operations .
Why does it take one driver 8.5 hrs to do a run and another runs 2.5 hrs over?
Why isn't every day the same as the previous one?
Easy,use google maps to reloop everything to save miles and be more productive.
They are indifferent to the fact that the pre set allowances for drivers running over the allowed time
are set ridiculously high.They long to have a way to control every aspect of the job to reduce costs.
I personally believe that these people think that most of us are time stealing milk the clockers that need to be weeded out.
Telematics is their way of getting one step closer to absolute control.
But...as far as reality goes,the unpredictability of circumstances overrides all predictions.
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