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Message: <blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1098906" data-attributes="member: 14668">P-Man, heres another question.On my route there is a newer residential subdivision that was a wheat field when I bid the area 17 yrs ago. It has one entrance/exit, and is a series of looping streets that surround a golf course. Its a perfect "test case" for the ORION system.I wrote the trace for this area myself once the city had finished platting the streets, and when PAS/EDD was implemented they simply cut-and-pasted my trace for this subdivision into the trace for the entire loop. When I wrote this trace I had two goals; to minimize mileage of course, but also...and more importantly...to eliminate the need to ever back into a driveway. If my trace is followed 100%, a driver could theoretically deliver 250 stops in there without backing up once. This involves using the avalable cul-de-sacs and/or driving around the block, which can add distance of course, but not enough to justify risking a back.I asked the ORION manager about this and he said that the system will still try to cut miles by having you deliver to the next closest house...even if it requires backing, or has you deliver an excessive number of stops on the driver side of the street vs the passenger side (which of course means walking across the street to make the delivery.) He said that in a situation such as this, we should use common sense and avoid backing even if it will cause ORION compliance to suffer.I was encouraged by his reply, but my concern is this; once he is gone, and my management team is getting hammered by corporate to generate the 85% metric (which you know they will) isnt this system going to encourage unsafe behavior and additional backing by drivers who are trying to be in compliance?When I deliver in this neighborhood, I use PAS/EDD along with my area knowledge to create a mental "trace" for myself that both eliminates any need to back and maximizes the number of stops I will be delivering on the passenger side of the street. I'm going to continue doing this, regardless of what ORION says and regardless of whether or not it causes me to drive an extra 523 feet on a 140 mile route. This is the safe and productive and proper thing to do, yet my "compliance" will suffer as a result. Where is the wisdom in designing a system that encourages unsafe behavior and, in effect, punishes those who make smart decisions?</blockquote>

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