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<blockquote data-quote="Whither" data-source="post: 5222943" data-attributes="member: 76643"><p>Well done! It's not only a crutch, it's also a full-on distraction if a driver spends, say, a week on a route and is still totally lost without MapNav. People like to rag on "unskilled" jobs and here you'll even find some Teamsters who think delivery driving requires no "skills" but navigating is a skill (let alone "efficiently" navigating an entire delivery route while making service on all deliveries and pickups), safely driving a P-1000 down many of the roads and streets we must travel is a skill, and so on. </p><p></p><p>Since dynamic Orion got implemented I frequently deliver whole sections of my route by the shelves. RDO generally makes sense, you quickly learn the kinks -- the exceptions being poorly-sequenced add-cuts/random stops in loopmates' areas frankensteined onto routes to meet the 'stops per car' quota. I have no qualms with the Orion-followers here. I think it's hilarious, and the results back up my point. I've followed it many times, as a blind cover driver, as a lark, as a lesson to mgmt for this or that nonsense. On the 3 bid routes I've had, I could point out stop-for-stop where Orion plans ill-advised resi backs that contradict the methods. I'm well aware that following Orion <em>safely</em> would keep the meter running at least 30 min to an hour longer everyday. But <em>in the long run</em> my time is priceless. I won't run and gun or cut corners to "burn it up" as we say here. They've made it clear that they expect us to make service in any case, so I deliver the route as sensibly and safely as I can. </p><p></p><p>Even where Orion/MapNav succeeds, it's a failure. I don't doubt that the company hoped they'd make us totally expendable, but it turns out that safe driving, safe package handling, and area knowledge still matter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whither, post: 5222943, member: 76643"] Well done! It's not only a crutch, it's also a full-on distraction if a driver spends, say, a week on a route and is still totally lost without MapNav. People like to rag on "unskilled" jobs and here you'll even find some Teamsters who think delivery driving requires no "skills" but navigating is a skill (let alone "efficiently" navigating an entire delivery route while making service on all deliveries and pickups), safely driving a P-1000 down many of the roads and streets we must travel is a skill, and so on. Since dynamic Orion got implemented I frequently deliver whole sections of my route by the shelves. RDO generally makes sense, you quickly learn the kinks -- the exceptions being poorly-sequenced add-cuts/random stops in loopmates' areas frankensteined onto routes to meet the 'stops per car' quota. I have no qualms with the Orion-followers here. I think it's hilarious, and the results back up my point. I've followed it many times, as a blind cover driver, as a lark, as a lesson to mgmt for this or that nonsense. On the 3 bid routes I've had, I could point out stop-for-stop where Orion plans ill-advised resi backs that contradict the methods. I'm well aware that following Orion [I]safely[/I] would keep the meter running at least 30 min to an hour longer everyday. But [I]in the long run[/I] my time is priceless. I won't run and gun or cut corners to "burn it up" as we say here. They've made it clear that they expect us to make service in any case, so I deliver the route as sensibly and safely as I can. Even where Orion/MapNav succeeds, it's a failure. I don't doubt that the company hoped they'd make us totally expendable, but it turns out that safe driving, safe package handling, and area knowledge still matter. [/QUOTE]
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