It's not the flavor of the month for you yet.. ..or you are a runner/gunner.
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It's not the flavor of the month for you yet.. ..or you are a runner/gunner.
Foamer Pyle
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At my center they require us to run 95% Orion trace. As if the blown out loads are not bad enough, now you are forced to follow a trace that is counter productive, and can actually cause an injury by digging through your load. Orion is insulting, but if they want to try and save a mile or two, and pay an extra hour of overtime, I guess that's their pill to swallow.
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If they made me follow orion (thank God our center doesn't care) with a bricked out load, I wouldn't be digging or crawling through anything. I would literally unload the rear of my truck at every stop to get the package that was buried because that's the "safest" way to do it. Sometimes the RDC stop with 50+ boxes is the 20th stop according to orion so that's a lot of loading and unloading.
dookie stain
Cornfed whiteboy
Not
not a runner at all...usually about two hours in the hole
Coldworld
60 months and counting
Which was probably scratch a few years ago... Scam fact!!
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Orion first stop is the flavor of the month in our center. They are basically telling us that we either have to go to our first stop or have a good reason for not doing so.
I don't have a problem with that; however, more often than not, we are not able to get EDD until after the PCM. There are days we can't get EDD until we are in the parking lot doing our pretrips. We then drive to what is normally our first stop while EDD is still loading.
Our on car says we should all look at the Orion computer to see what our first stop is but stopped short of saying that we are required to do so.
Any thoughts?
I don't have a problem with that; however, more often than not, we are not able to get EDD until after the PCM. There are days we can't get EDD until we are in the parking lot doing our pretrips. We then drive to what is normally our first stop while EDD is still loading.
Our on car says we should all look at the Orion computer to see what our first stop is but stopped short of saying that we are required to do so.
Any thoughts?
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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I would have late air.
tourists24
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So unless you looked on the computer how do you know what your first stop is?
BrownDog5117
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X - Other
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Bingo!
My question is if they can make it a requirement for each and every driver to check one of our two Orion computers before they go on road.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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If you're on the clock, yes. If you aren't then no.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Make it management's problem, not your's.
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It's an easy game to play. You either wait to look at a computer and have late air, but that isn't your fault because you're WAD. Or you run your route how you know how to since you're a veteran driver and get your air off on time, businesses delivered, etc.
Orion is their problem not ours!
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
What he really means is he couldn't deliver all of his ground with his air.
Quick way to get fired if you have late air.
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