OrioN
double tap o da horn dooshbag
that's kinda funny when i see those express drivers looking at their smartphones while driving... the tech is there, why not use it?!?
Turn by turn
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that's kinda funny when i see those express drivers looking at their smartphones while driving... the tech is there, why not use it?!?
Operational needs
Virescit Vulnere Virtus
I have even better technology..... My brain. I never have to worry about losing service, doing updates or losing battery power.
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It will be fine
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Crazy talkI even even better technology..... My brain. I never have to worry about losing service, doing updates or losing battery power.
dezguy
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Any capable courier shouldn't need a GPS. GPS is nothing more than a crutch.
No. It's a training tool.
dezguy
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Give me 3, 5 days max on a route and I can do it efficiently. All without needing a GPS unit.
I don't know how everyone else learns but when I'm learning a new route I only use GPS as a last resort because if I don't have to find my way around by myself then I don't learn the area nearly as fast.
It's handy to have though. If I arrive at where something logically should be and it isn't there then I look around some more and if I can't find it or don't have the time to look then I punch it into Google maps. Of course sometimes it doesn't know either or just tells me where it should be, not where it is.
As a tool, it's a life saver. After time, it's an annoyance that the driver no longer needs or uses. 3, 5 days. 3 weeks if necessary. Who cares?
Cactus
Just telling it like it is
RedAngel
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I guess I'm not capable then but in the Los Angeles SameDay market were your average miles per day exceeds 120 miles and everyday is a new stop you really don't have an alternative.
MrFedEx
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Right. They never stop using it, so how is it a "training tool"? It's how they get the 7-11 clerk in the door and able to drive for FedEx.
MrFedEx
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Yesterday I go up to a dock blocked by 2 Ground drivers. First off, they don't even need the effing dock because they have 5 packages. The first, who has been there 2 weeks, is training the second, who is on his first day. Between the 2 of them there is enough brain power to run a flashlight. After I roust them off the dock, they park directly in front of it looking at the GPS to figure out where the Hell they're going next. This is not making me, UPS, or Roadway very happy.
What you hire needs GPS, and that's because they're freaking morons.
SCV good to go sir.
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Is turn by turn the FedEx version of Orion?
Simply not true. I've used it with a driver and he no longer needs/uses it. Stop talking like you know how I do things.
Yeah. We get it. You hate Fedex.
Um...yeah. You go ahead and use the map and stay stuck in 1997, a time when experienced couriers were still relevant.
hypo hanna
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Like you use crutches to train a child to walk?
Thats...just dumb.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Is it?
