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<blockquote data-quote="40andOut" data-source="post: 1138771">It really is a shame. For decades UPS had some of it&#039;s best and brightest managers, who really understood delivery, loop these routes. All of that accumulated area and logistic knowledge and expertise is going to be lost. You don&#039;t loop a retail area that opens after 10 AM to be delivered first. You don&#039;t put a driver on top of a school when it lets out. You don&#039;t loop one way streets the wrong direction. You loop busy retail 4 lane roads even-odd, not just high to low. You deliver an important customer or bulk stop early, even when it means you travel an extra 1/4 mile etc. etc.&nbsp; Why do they not value decades of experience by both managers and drivers alike?I think the robo-delivery truck idea is a bit far fetched, but perhaps ORION is the first step...Take all the variation that comes with human thought out of the equation. ORION has figured out a short cut that I have been using for a particular stop (I have been accessing it from a different street). It now sequences the stop into the other street. This shortcut is not available year-round, however. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing! I did not know that ORION had the ability to learn...Artificial Intelligence program, perhaps?. If so, I will have to consider how much I will let ORION know about my area - Stop doing things that only a driver with an intimate area knowledge knows about. When I gave up a route I had done for over a decade, I wrote out all the useful things I knew about the route for the new route driver. It took me over 6 hours to compile and I filled 8 pages. Needless to say, the new route driver was very appreciative. I will not do the same for a machine, or scab that replaces me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="40andOut, post: 1138771"] It really is a shame. For decades UPS had some of it's best and brightest managers, who really understood delivery, loop these routes. All of that accumulated area and logistic knowledge and expertise is going to be lost. You don't loop a retail area that opens after 10 AM to be delivered first. You don't put a driver on top of a school when it lets out. You don't loop one way streets the wrong direction. You loop busy retail 4 lane roads even-odd, not just high to low. You deliver an important customer or bulk stop early, even when it means you travel an extra 1/4 mile etc. etc. Why do they not value decades of experience by both managers and drivers alike? I think the robo-delivery truck idea is a bit far fetched, but perhaps ORION is the first step...Take all the variation that comes with human thought out of the equation. ORION has figured out a short cut that I have been using for a particular stop (I have been accessing it from a different street). It now sequences the stop into the other street. This shortcut is not available year-round, however. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing! I did not know that ORION had the ability to learn...Artificial Intelligence program, perhaps?. If so, I will have to consider how much I will let ORION know about my area - Stop doing things that only a driver with an intimate area knowledge knows about. When I gave up a route I had done for over a decade, I wrote out all the useful things I knew about the route for the new route driver. It took me over 6 hours to compile and I filled 8 pages. Needless to say, the new route driver was very appreciative. I will not do the same for a machine, or scab that replaces me. [/QUOTE]

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