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Have you heard of the Orion System, what do you know?
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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 942445" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>I can already see the writing on the wall.</p><p></p><p>First, the system will be implemented with little or no input from anybdy with any local area knowledge.</p><p></p><p>Once implemented, the drivers will be required to follow ORION to within a certain "percentage". It might be 70%....it might be 85%...it might be whatever random number gets pulled out of the ass of the IE guy in another time zone who is in charge of the damn thing. <em>Whatever</em> that number is, it wont have <em>any</em> correlation to reduced miles, improved service, or common sense. And we will chase that number right off a cliff if we have to.</p><p></p><p>The <em>really</em> fun part will be when (or if) My Choice ever gets up and running. When you combine the time windows dictated by MyChoice with service commitments for Next Day Air, Next Day Air Savers and On Call Air....add a bunch of businesses that can only be delivered from 9:00AM-11:59 AM or 1:01 PM to 5:00 PM....throw in 20 or 30 pickups that <em>must</em> be stop completed within 15 minutes of their scheduled time....mix in containment issues and bulk stops....factor in the routes that get eliminated 20 minutes before start time in order to comply with a Stops Per Car mandate.....and then dump a big steaming pile of ORION compliance on top of it all.....you will wind up with a <strong><em>complete and total custerfluck</em></strong>. No matter <em>what</em> the driver does, there will be some sort of metric that he is unable to generate. Any action he takes to get off of one report will simply cause him to show up on a different one, and anything he does to be "in compliance" with one expectation will cause him to fail at another. And the IE maroon in his cubicle will look at his maps and charts and reports and wonder why none of his bright ideas are working.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 942445, member: 14668"] I can already see the writing on the wall. First, the system will be implemented with little or no input from anybdy with any local area knowledge. Once implemented, the drivers will be required to follow ORION to within a certain "percentage". It might be 70%....it might be 85%...it might be whatever random number gets pulled out of the ass of the IE guy in another time zone who is in charge of the damn thing. [I]Whatever[/I] that number is, it wont have [I]any[/I] correlation to reduced miles, improved service, or common sense. And we will chase that number right off a cliff if we have to. The [I]really[/I] fun part will be when (or if) My Choice ever gets up and running. When you combine the time windows dictated by MyChoice with service commitments for Next Day Air, Next Day Air Savers and On Call Air....add a bunch of businesses that can only be delivered from 9:00AM-11:59 AM or 1:01 PM to 5:00 PM....throw in 20 or 30 pickups that [I]must[/I] be stop completed within 15 minutes of their scheduled time....mix in containment issues and bulk stops....factor in the routes that get eliminated 20 minutes before start time in order to comply with a Stops Per Car mandate.....and then dump a big steaming pile of ORION compliance on top of it all.....you will wind up with a [B][I]complete and total custerfluck[/I][/B]. No matter [I]what[/I] the driver does, there will be some sort of metric that he is unable to generate. Any action he takes to get off of one report will simply cause him to show up on a different one, and anything he does to be "in compliance" with one expectation will cause him to fail at another. And the IE maroon in his cubicle will look at his maps and charts and reports and wonder why none of his bright ideas are working. [/QUOTE]
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