Drones to help Package Drivers look like Feeder Drivers
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40 stops to freedom
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would rather have a drone help with over 70s.. we should get t shirt cannons to launch those llbean bags to the door
Why don't th y just try this????????????? “Lazy UPS Guy” Drives on the Sidewalk to Deliver Packages
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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There must be a panda somewhere that needs to be flown back to China.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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They finally posted the bid sheet yesterday and there were no Tuesday-Saturday routes listed for bid.
TearsInRain
IE boogeyman
we aren't bidding those routes
gman042
Been around the block a few times
The stockholders are eating this up. Let's stop all the negativity. Just look how good Orion is. These guys know what's best for all of us.
Orion is the best thing since sliced bread......that has been sitting in the cupboard for a few weeks now.
Orion is a farce. I beat that silly little program by a combined 60 miles last week running my route the same way I always have. Beat it 25 miles yesterday.
You mean to tell me that it calculates the best way to run your route everyday? Total BS!!!
TearsInRain
IE boogeyman
orion is a direct reflection of your PDS' competence and work ethic, fyi
it can be amazing or total
, as you have obviously experiencedFaceplanted
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Imagine the liability associated with an idiot ups driver flying through a neighborhood looking at his Diad.
Ooooo wait....
clean hairy
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The Driver gets a ticket for distracted flying?
Faceplanted
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Who pays when a distracted ups driver rear ends somebody?
Liberty mutual.
You guys are making this drone and automated vehicle liability situation way more complicated than it's going to be.
Except UPS can say "we fired him, we are committed to the publics safety....blah blah blah"
IF UPS's AUTOMATED drone system crashes it calls into question the safety and efficacy of the entire system. Not only that but I can see GPS having errors in rural locations. I hike in the mountains all the time and GPS is off by up to a half mile sometimes (even more if I'm at the bottom of a canyon/valley)
Faceplanted
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In my center just in the past few years there have been at least 3/4 blatant hit other in rear accidents. I'm sure the people who got hit got attorneys and ended up with nice big 30-100k checks from ups just in personal injury costs, that's not including car damage. A drone is not gonna kill hurt people in any higher of a ratio than a ups driver, I would actually expect the opposite. Automated cars have already proven them selfs much safer than a car driven by a human. FACT
All the drivers are still here that destroyed others cars in the rear
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
How's that gonna work? If a route is in 30 out of 90 Calendar days it gets bid.
TearsInRain
IE boogeyman
these routes are going to be in maybe 12 out of 90 calendar days so still no go
saturday routes aren't going to be the same as tues-fri, or monday
it'll be more like each of your loops gets 1-2 routes to cover the whole thing; you want to bid something like that out?
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
They will have to bid T-S jobs. Otherwise every Saturday will be a nightmare of offer the work to those without 40 hours. Then offer the extra work from the top down then finally force from. The bottom up.
TearsInRain
IE boogeyman
work schedule yes, routes no
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
Sure you will it's simple. If 1-2 routes per loop are in Saturday then 1-2 routes per loop will be T-S bid. They will absorb the other routes in their loop.
We bid routes not work schedules. This isn't @MyTripisCut local
TearsInRain
IE boogeyman
I mean I don't know what local you're in and more power to you but that's not the way we rolled it out so far, and we haven't heard a peep out of labor
