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Have you heard of the Orion System, what do you know?
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<blockquote data-quote="40andOut" data-source="post: 1149698"><p>So...</p><p>Drivers are now being called in to the office because they are following ORION too closely, and the miles are way up.---"You only have to be 85% on trace; why didn't you make this or that adjustment"--</p><p> </p><p>The problem is that ORION scrambles you route so much that it takes too much time and effort to figure out why it is running the stops a particular way. So they now expect you to scroll down several pages (several times a day) to figure out what stops might save you a few blocks. It is not worth it. Since ORION can't communicate to me <strong>why</strong> it is knocking stops off in the order it is, I have no way of knowing if adding a stop here or there will be productive or not. </p><p></p><p>It is like running football patterns without knowing how the overall play is designed to work...They tell you to run a post pattern, but you don't know if you are a decoy setting up the run, or if suddenly the ball will be thrown at you when you least expect it. Before we were the Quarterbacks but now we are not even told what the game plan is.</p><p></p><p>I am finding myself shutting off the brain and going into robo-mode more and more.</p><p></p><p> Before ORION............................................................................. After ORION</p><p>-1/2 to 1 hr under each day ........................................................-20 minutes under to 1 hr+ over allowed each day</p><p>-excellent customer service (business got del in AM) ....................-del some business at 4:45 PM; ORION tries to combine del and P/U by schedualling del at P/U time</p><p>-floor clear by 11:30 AM .............................................................-stumbling over bulk stops till 5 PM</p><p>-miles driven are lower................................................................. -miles driven are clearly higher</p><p>-more stops complete in set amount of time ...............................-less stops complete in same amount of time</p><p>-day is well planned out with set benchmarks to guide .................-can not understand the "plan" because it does not make sense 1/2 the time</p><p></p><p>The good part of all this is that it is quite freeing to put it in robo-mode. When I do, I don't even look more than 2 stops ahead most of the day. I am trying to stop daydreaming while working now. That is the danger, you are an accident/injury waiting to happen when you mind is not occupied by your work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="40andOut, post: 1149698"] So... Drivers are now being called in to the office because they are following ORION too closely, and the miles are way up.---"You only have to be 85% on trace; why didn't you make this or that adjustment"-- The problem is that ORION scrambles you route so much that it takes too much time and effort to figure out why it is running the stops a particular way. So they now expect you to scroll down several pages (several times a day) to figure out what stops might save you a few blocks. It is not worth it. Since ORION can't communicate to me [B]why[/B] it is knocking stops off in the order it is, I have no way of knowing if adding a stop here or there will be productive or not. It is like running football patterns without knowing how the overall play is designed to work...They tell you to run a post pattern, but you don't know if you are a decoy setting up the run, or if suddenly the ball will be thrown at you when you least expect it. Before we were the Quarterbacks but now we are not even told what the game plan is. I am finding myself shutting off the brain and going into robo-mode more and more. Before ORION............................................................................. After ORION -1/2 to 1 hr under each day ........................................................-20 minutes under to 1 hr+ over allowed each day -excellent customer service (business got del in AM) ....................-del some business at 4:45 PM; ORION tries to combine del and P/U by schedualling del at P/U time -floor clear by 11:30 AM .............................................................-stumbling over bulk stops till 5 PM -miles driven are lower................................................................. -miles driven are clearly higher -more stops complete in set amount of time ...............................-less stops complete in same amount of time -day is well planned out with set benchmarks to guide .................-can not understand the "plan" because it does not make sense 1/2 the time The good part of all this is that it is quite freeing to put it in robo-mode. When I do, I don't even look more than 2 stops ahead most of the day. I am trying to stop daydreaming while working now. That is the danger, you are an accident/injury waiting to happen when you mind is not occupied by your work. [/QUOTE]
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