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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 3787703" data-attributes="member: 14668">If we were truly serious about reducing miles...we would keep the cars parked in the building and just have the drivers walk back and forth from the building to their delivery areas with handcarts.Ridiculous and impossible you say? Yes...but only slightly more ridiculous and impossible than expecting a driver in a bricked out out P-10 to select and deliver single packages from his 7000,&nbsp; 8000 and 4000 shelves for his first 10 stops, or loading the car in sequential order (RDO) and then deliberately blocking the drivers ability to view the manifest in thar order.Look, ORION is a great excercise in map theory and the Traveling Salesman algorithm. And if the job consisted of nothing more than leaving the building in the AM in an economy car, driving to different mailboxes on the route, and then pushing a button on them in order to turn off a blinking light within certain time parameters....ORION would be awesome.But real life and Pac Man are two completely different things and once you factor the requirement of locating, selecting, delivering and picking up actual packages into the equation...you know, the stuff we drivers do in the real world...ORION gets exposed for what it truly is; high tech snake oil designed to pump up the stock price by fooling gullible investors.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 3787703, member: 14668"] If we were [I]truly[/I] serious about reducing miles...we would keep the cars parked in the building and just have the drivers walk back and forth from the building to their delivery areas with handcarts. Ridiculous and impossible you say? Yes...but only slightly more ridiculous and impossible than expecting a driver in a bricked out out P-10 to select and deliver single packages from his 7000, 8000 and 4000 shelves for his first 10 stops, or loading the car in sequential order (RDO) and then [I]deliberately blocking[/I] the drivers ability to view the manifest in thar order. Look, ORION is a great excercise in map theory and the Traveling Salesman algorithm. And if the job consisted of nothing more than leaving the building in the AM in an economy car, driving to different mailboxes on the route, and then pushing a button on them in order to turn off a blinking light within certain time parameters....ORION would be awesome. But real life and Pac Man are two completely different things and once you factor the requirement of locating, selecting, delivering and picking up[I] actual packages[/I] into the equation...you know, the stuff we drivers do[I] in the real world.[/I]..ORION gets exposed for what it truly is; high tech snake oil designed to pump up the stock price by fooling gullible investors. [/QUOTE]

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