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How many years do you have there?
Follow ORION 85% or....
- Thread starter ChicagosPrimeMinister
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srvhero
"leastbest"
Sounds like your route is planned loosely. Maybe it needs to be adjusted to properly reflect a "productive route " [emoji1]I have on occasion used the pkg car to bring home something from Lowes or that I found on the side of the road. I have also made same day deliveries. You make it sound like an every day thing, which it certainly is not.
I drive an Altima---can't fit much in one of those.
They look the other way when you run an hour under.
Future
Victory Ride
Theft of services ....be careful using vehicle for personal use
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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My favorite cookies are chocolate chip.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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I'm not talking about going to Lowes, picking up a grill and dropping it off at the house.
Oh, wait---I have done that.
Never mind.
They can put time windows in for all your business's. If a business closes at 3 everyday, or even if it closes at say 1 only on Friday. Makes Orion think a little harder.Thought about doing it today to stick it to andispatcher who jumped my
My disdain for him didn't out weigh my desire to get home
Our centers planned day is just under 10 hours.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Picking through the load makes you lose a lot of time.
They can put time Windows in for all your business stops, just gotta tell them.
billerz
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Soon to be 10 years, I most management will contradict themselves a lot, but they are literally asking for opposite things in the same sentence lol.
"Don't back [as ORION commands], and keep your miles down!"
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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A software program cannot command anything.
Of course not. But management still has to prop it up, so compliance is the daily order of the day, daily.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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My point was a software program cannot tell you to back in an unsafe manner.
No. But not doing so and upping your mileage will land you in your center manager's office as easily as having too many backs will where I am.
okeydoke
Need duct tape?
I will have her make some for you.
soberups
Pees in the brown Koolaid
Why is it my responsibility to tell them?
I thought the entire point of ORION was to reduce or eliminate decision making by the driver and put it in the hands of those who are so much better qualified?
If they are so damn smart and if they have all the answers, let them figure it out.
When they demand that we follow ORION they are telling us that we are no longer competent or trustworthy enough to decide what order the stops should be delivered in. If that is the case, how are we competent or trustworthy enough to help them fix the problems with ORION in the first place?
They cant have it both ways. If they want to put me in a cage its not my job to help them weld up the bars.
soberups
Pees in the brown Koolaid
On my route those two directives are mutually exclusive.
I hit the ORION on average about 92% and I usually beat the plan miles by 5 every day. I hit the stupid first stop idea first and then I bookmark sections and jump around all over their plan and beat it easily. I have always run ground with my Next Day Air stops to reduce miles time permitting. It has always been smart to finish off a subdivision or section running air if I have the time, I call that working smart. ORION has a lot of faults in it, I won't tell my Dispatch Supervisor what his mistakes are when he is planning my day.
