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<blockquote data-quote="Maui" data-source="post: 1108043" data-attributes="member: 45037"><p>DRA has its good and bad side. At our station the stem times were so messed up that even if you eft when DRA proposed you would have lates so the sort was always planned to end later. You will not see this because it is entered in ROADS as planned sort down. This plans how much time the system thinks you have to deliver and then uses an algorithm to max out your cycle(s) and gets the maps ready to print. </p><p></p><p>The good part is that you know your stops before the sort even starts. Someone new gets a big head start by having the stops listed, mapped, and routed. Sometimes the routing is good and sometimes it is really stupid. The system has no idea if there are any events going on to effect traffic and it doesn't seem to know about construction either. It's nice even for a seasoned driver to get the stops and maps if you are in a new area. It does NOT take into account route knowledge. Unless extra breaks are put in, then a new driver on a route will definitely have late. </p><p></p><p>The new scanners are much better. I don't think it means anything that it know uses FID other than its fewer characters.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Maui, post: 1108043, member: 45037"] DRA has its good and bad side. At our station the stem times were so messed up that even if you eft when DRA proposed you would have lates so the sort was always planned to end later. You will not see this because it is entered in ROADS as planned sort down. This plans how much time the system thinks you have to deliver and then uses an algorithm to max out your cycle(s) and gets the maps ready to print. The good part is that you know your stops before the sort even starts. Someone new gets a big head start by having the stops listed, mapped, and routed. Sometimes the routing is good and sometimes it is really stupid. The system has no idea if there are any events going on to effect traffic and it doesn't seem to know about construction either. It's nice even for a seasoned driver to get the stops and maps if you are in a new area. It does NOT take into account route knowledge. Unless extra breaks are put in, then a new driver on a route will definitely have late. The new scanners are much better. I don't think it means anything that it know uses FID other than its fewer characters. [/QUOTE]
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