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<blockquote data-quote="scratch" data-source="post: 3341836" data-attributes="member: 1674">I think that ORION sounds good in principle, but it wasn&#039;t ready for it&#039;s full potential when it was implemented. From a safety standpoint, it fails big time in knowing the best way to deliver a section because it simply doesn&#039;t know it&#039;s Left from it&#039;s Right. As a driver, I want to work out of my passenger door all day as much as I can. I want to drive down a main road and deliver the subdivisions on the right side to save time in traffic and make right turns as much as possible. Anybody with a brain should understand that.I remember when EDD/PAL started, a team was put into our Center to figure out the best way to run a route. We were asked to come in ten minutes early for our input using our area knowledge. Some drivers took advantage of this, but most didn&#039;t bother. So the team drug the mouse over the computer screen to set up a master trace. This was done by somebody that had no idea about the many variables that a driver has to deal with every day. It seems to me that my ORION trace is based on this faulty data. I can beat my planned day by several miles if everything goes right. I have three areas that I know I can outsmart the computer. I waste a lot more time in the back of the package car digging through a poor load trying to make the plan happen. With all this technology UPS has, why can&#039;t the package car be loaded in order?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="scratch, post: 3341836, member: 1674"] I think that ORION sounds good in principle, but it wasn't ready for it's full potential when it was implemented. From a safety standpoint, it fails big time in knowing the best way to deliver a section because it simply doesn't know it's Left from it's Right. As a driver, I want to work out of my passenger door all day as much as I can. I want to drive down a main road and deliver the subdivisions on the right side to save time in traffic and make right turns as much as possible. Anybody with a brain should understand that. I remember when EDD/PAL started, a team was put into our Center to figure out the best way to run a route. We were asked to come in ten minutes early for our input using our area knowledge. Some drivers took advantage of this, but most didn't bother. So the team drug the mouse over the computer screen to set up a master trace. This was done by somebody that had no idea about the many variables that a driver has to deal with every day. It seems to me that my ORION trace is based on this faulty data. I can beat my planned day by several miles if everything goes right. I have three areas that I know I can outsmart the computer. I waste a lot more time in the back of the package car digging through a poor load trying to make the plan happen. With all this technology UPS has, why can't the package car be loaded in order? [/QUOTE]

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