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How hard is it to learn a rural route?
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<blockquote data-quote="barnyard" data-source="post: 2125788" data-attributes="member: 13921"><p>The route that I was on last week has road construction and the road is closed. It is entered into the Orion plan and it was easy to tell that Orion knew about the road closure Mon-Thurs. Friday, I had an NDA about 5 miles past the road construction. Orion wanted me to run the air, then go back to a resi on the other side of the road construction, then go back to a business, going around the road construction again. This is a rural route, so going around a closed road is a 2 mile detour, each way.</p><p></p><p>I skipped that resi until after my afternoon pick up at the same business. Orion had me delivering 3 other resi stops in the afternoon that were all less than 1 mile from the stop I skipped in the AM. Skipping that stop until the afternoon saved me 8 miles. </p><p></p><p>The resi stop that I skipped was a section 1 stop and the others that I did in the afternoon were section 7. So, I can sort of see that it wanted to get a section 1 stop done early, except the day before, it had me skip a section 1 business that had 4 NDA savers and according to the plan, deliver them at 16:15 (the business closes at 1600, sometimes 1530.)</p><p></p><p>It was a pretty easy decision to add 2 miles to that start of my day and get rid of the 4-47 lb savers and prevent an expensive service failure. </p><p></p><p>So many times, Orion has me doing things that I thought of in the past, but was not really sure that it saved miles (maybe it is only saving a quarter mile, who knows) and then the very next day, it will have me doing something out of the blue stupid that a 1st year driver could see is a waste of miles.</p><p></p><p>I don't get it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="barnyard, post: 2125788, member: 13921"] The route that I was on last week has road construction and the road is closed. It is entered into the Orion plan and it was easy to tell that Orion knew about the road closure Mon-Thurs. Friday, I had an NDA about 5 miles past the road construction. Orion wanted me to run the air, then go back to a resi on the other side of the road construction, then go back to a business, going around the road construction again. This is a rural route, so going around a closed road is a 2 mile detour, each way. I skipped that resi until after my afternoon pick up at the same business. Orion had me delivering 3 other resi stops in the afternoon that were all less than 1 mile from the stop I skipped in the AM. Skipping that stop until the afternoon saved me 8 miles. The resi stop that I skipped was a section 1 stop and the others that I did in the afternoon were section 7. So, I can sort of see that it wanted to get a section 1 stop done early, except the day before, it had me skip a section 1 business that had 4 NDA savers and according to the plan, deliver them at 16:15 (the business closes at 1600, sometimes 1530.) It was a pretty easy decision to add 2 miles to that start of my day and get rid of the 4-47 lb savers and prevent an expensive service failure. So many times, Orion has me doing things that I thought of in the past, but was not really sure that it saved miles (maybe it is only saving a quarter mile, who knows) and then the very next day, it will have me doing something out of the blue stupid that a 1st year driver could see is a waste of miles. I don't get it. [/QUOTE]
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