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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1336818" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>I have been on it for about a year.</p><p></p><p>It works on some routes and fails miserably on others.</p><p></p><p>It does not tell you specifically where to back at each stop, but if you drive around the block instead of backing into driveways you will be over on the mileage.</p><p></p><p>The map program that the implementation team uses is not always accurate on rural routes. My ORION guy wanted me to go up a "road" that is gated and useable only in the summer by a 4 wheel drive vehicle. The detour that I must take negates the entire solution. There have also been a couple of occasions where following ORION would have literally caused me to run out of fuel. I have frequently beaten its prediction by over 30 miles simply by turning it off and using common sense.</p><p></p><p>In my center we are still expected to make service on misloads so if you catch one (I had NINE on Friday) your entire solution and mileage prediction goes out the window. If you do wind up with 4 or more misloads, your compliance metric does not even show up on the report the next day and is replaced by "DTTP" which stands for "different trip than planned". This is good because a driver who does his job and makes service on misloads wont get in trouble for compliance.</p><p></p><p>ORION would have me doing some of my pickups at 10:00 AM instead of their scheduled 3:45 PM. Our center is big on pickup compliance, so this puts me in a no-win scenario because obeying one directive (ORION compliance) will automatically cause me to disobey another one (pickup compliance). Since my customers could care less about ORION, I obey the directive that gives them a consistent pickup time each day which is arguably in the best interests of the company per art 37 of the contract.</p><p></p><p>My advice for drivers who are about to go on ORION is to keep a log in order to document any stupid, unsafe or counterproductive decisions that ORION would have you follow. When push comes to shove, the company will NOT be able to discipline a driver for failing to generate an 85% compliance metric<strong> as long as the driver can show that he/she was simply trying to make correct business decisions for the route and do the job in a manner that best represents the company's interest.</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1336818, member: 14668"] I have been on it for about a year. It works on some routes and fails miserably on others. It does not tell you specifically where to back at each stop, but if you drive around the block instead of backing into driveways you will be over on the mileage. The map program that the implementation team uses is not always accurate on rural routes. My ORION guy wanted me to go up a "road" that is gated and useable only in the summer by a 4 wheel drive vehicle. The detour that I must take negates the entire solution. There have also been a couple of occasions where following ORION would have literally caused me to run out of fuel. I have frequently beaten its prediction by over 30 miles simply by turning it off and using common sense. In my center we are still expected to make service on misloads so if you catch one (I had NINE on Friday) your entire solution and mileage prediction goes out the window. If you do wind up with 4 or more misloads, your compliance metric does not even show up on the report the next day and is replaced by "DTTP" which stands for "different trip than planned". This is good because a driver who does his job and makes service on misloads wont get in trouble for compliance. ORION would have me doing some of my pickups at 10:00 AM instead of their scheduled 3:45 PM. Our center is big on pickup compliance, so this puts me in a no-win scenario because obeying one directive (ORION compliance) will automatically cause me to disobey another one (pickup compliance). Since my customers could care less about ORION, I obey the directive that gives them a consistent pickup time each day which is arguably in the best interests of the company per art 37 of the contract. My advice for drivers who are about to go on ORION is to keep a log in order to document any stupid, unsafe or counterproductive decisions that ORION would have you follow. When push comes to shove, the company will NOT be able to discipline a driver for failing to generate an 85% compliance metric[B] as long as the driver can show that he/she was simply trying to make correct business decisions for the route and do the job in a manner that best represents the company's interest.[/B] [/QUOTE]
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