So you back up 75 times a day? Because that's what I would have to do to follow Ocrapion.
Sometimes more. That’s what they want so that’s what they get. I follow it as close to 100% as humanly possible until it’s dangerous. When that happens I make an adjustment and then get back on trace. If I have to break for the restroom (or and actual lunch break) then I do and then get back on trace. It will be followed. Number of backs be damned. Over/under allowed be damned. Miles be damned.
Me and another OG driver were once highly against using Orión. We both said “we’re not going out there doing circles and goofy * when we know how to run the route better”. Then we started following it stop by stop. You literally have to shut off your brain and not care so much about what’s on the board. Just drive to your next stop. The driver and my stop counts started going down. It’s funny because I see all these other drivers heavy every day. But here I am with my 113 stops. Orión makes that * last 9hrs. I’d rather have a really stupid easy *ing day with Orión than killing the route everyday. Making my stop count go up.
Orion is the way to go. And I was so against it at first.
ORION is great for lowering your stop count
AND getting more OT with less work. Once you stop caring about anything other than actually driving safely and delivering the packages it almost becomes entertaining at times.
Another driver in my center and I talk on then phone (hands free) often and have a good ole time calling out all the stops we’re passing and the often ridiculous travel paths it creates just to get us to the route from the center and vice versa.
Most drivers get irritated as those things occur (if they even follow it) but we’ve been in “I don’t give a crap mode” for so long, and are reaping the results, that we thrive on it all. If we could fix ORION so that it doesn’t scramble streets with cul de sacs i would almost say ORION is the greatest addition ever.