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<blockquote data-quote="cosmo1" data-source="post: 3243639" data-attributes="member: 13442">From the fact sheet linked by Dave:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">As a way to boost delivery drivers&#039; awareness of backing, the safety committee in the Pacific Region&#039;s Desert Mountain District (New Mexico, Arizona and southern Nevada), and the Automotive group in the South California District (San Diego) created and refined a device that counts the number of times a package car is placed in reverse. The counters helped spur a contest to see which package division could achieve the biggest reduction in total backing maneuvers.</li>
</ul>In my old center, the first package car that device was installed on was the one used by our most senior and safest driver at the time. The thought was, by tracking his backs and reporting them to the rest of us, that we would try to reduce our backs.Unfortunately, the device recorded an inordinately high amount of backs. When this was brought out at a PCM, said driver pointed out to the management people who installed it that his car was an automatic, the only one in our center at that point.The PCM sounded like a comedy show after that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cosmo1, post: 3243639, member: 13442"] From the fact sheet linked by Dave: [LIST] [*]As a way to boost delivery drivers' awareness of backing, the safety committee in the Pacific Region's Desert Mountain District (New Mexico, Arizona and southern Nevada), and the Automotive group in the South California District (San Diego) created and refined a device that counts the number of times a package car is placed in reverse. The counters helped spur a contest to see which package division could achieve the biggest reduction in total backing maneuvers. [/LIST] In my old center, the first package car that device was installed on was the one used by our most senior and safest driver at the time. The thought was, by tracking his backs and reporting them to the rest of us, that we would try to reduce our backs. Unfortunately, the device recorded an inordinately high amount of backs. When this was brought out at a PCM, said driver pointed out to the management people who installed it that his car was an automatic, the only one in our center at that point. The PCM sounded like a comedy show after that. [/QUOTE]

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