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<blockquote data-quote="barnyard" data-source="post: 1102703" data-attributes="member: 13921">You do it. I also do the same. Many drivers do not. Some cover drivers follow EDD really close, I hardly ever do. I HATE driving in the same area twice, especially on rural routes. The more I read in this thread, the more that I see that Orion will help me decide if I might have time to run off 10 miles of rural stops with air or send me into town and come back later. It should also help with when to deliver a runner. The kind where you look at a map and get a headache trying to decide when delivering that stop will result in fewer miles or end up being more.I was on that kind of route last week. Going by EDD, you would deliver in town for the 1st 4 sections, then go to a little burg to the north for 3-4 stops, then south of town to make a circle around the county. When I hit the berg, I would also deliver stops from sections 6 and 8. Sometimes, I could see the houses from a section 5 stop. I continually had the internal debate on how far north I should run vs later in the day when I could come from the north. Some of the choices could add or subtract 10 miles for 1 stop. My most frustrating day was the day I missed a stop in EDD and had to run back from the north to within 200 yards of the berg. That cost me 10+ miles, if I would have delivered while I was in the berg, it would have been a 400 yard trip. My oldest is working on her PhD in physics and is also very interested in the math and the formulas that are involved in making it work.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="barnyard, post: 1102703, member: 13921"] You do it. I also do the same. Many drivers do not. Some cover drivers follow EDD really close, I hardly ever do. I HATE driving in the same area twice, especially on rural routes. The more I read in this thread, the more that I see that Orion will help me decide if I might have time to run off 10 miles of rural stops with air or send me into town and come back later. It should also help with when to deliver a runner. The kind where you look at a map and get a headache trying to decide when delivering that stop will result in fewer miles or end up being more. I was on that kind of route last week. Going by EDD, you would deliver in town for the 1st 4 sections, then go to a little burg to the north for 3-4 stops, then south of town to make a circle around the county. When I hit the berg, I would also deliver stops from sections 6 and 8. Sometimes, I could see the houses from a section 5 stop. I continually had the internal debate on how far north I should run vs later in the day when I could come from the north. Some of the choices could add or subtract 10 miles for 1 stop. My most frustrating day was the day I missed a stop in EDD and had to run back from the north to within 200 yards of the berg. That cost me 10+ miles, if I would have delivered while I was in the berg, it would have been a 400 yard trip. My oldest is working on her PhD in physics and is also very interested in the math and the formulas that are involved in making it work. [/QUOTE]

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