Cradle issues

[trickpony1]

After my last transfer, had to learn 40 routes my first year on my phone (IF I HAVE CELL SERVICE) because I couldn’t get any detailed maps. I support buying a cheap cradle, especially if you are learning 40+ routes a year.

GPS is relatively inexpensive and more applicable to the needs of a pkg car driver.
It's "hands free" via a suction cup on the windshield and you can take it home with you.

Opportunistic helping.

 

[SorryLazyPOS]

Some of us were delivering long before cradles and don’t need them to figure out where we are going. Why can’t you do your job without a cradle? You should be able to do this job without a cradle

People here saying they can’t help someone because their cradle is broken.

 

[1989]

GPS is relatively inexpensive and more applicable to the needs of a pkg car driver.
It's "hands free" via a suction cup on the windshield and you can take it home with you.

Opportunistic helping.

Just like a cradle. A working cradle will charge the battery (very helpful when you start at 20% when you leave). And will often take you to the place of delivery. For example something addressed to the house but is delivered to the farm/barn on a different road. If I were a newer driver, (trained with MAP NAV) would opt for the cradle over GPS. As an old driver who often does routes blind, I also would choose cradle over GPS.

 

[1989]

People here saying they can’t help someone because their cradle is broken.

What a joke

 

[Overpaid Union Thug]

Agreed. I’ve learned to not fight this stuff. If there’s a cradle, I’ll use it. But I’ve learned tons of routes blind before cradles and Orion, so I’m fine without it.

Exactly. Some of these people make things 10 times harder than they actually are.

 

[Poop Head]

Cradle issues= daddy issues.

My 4 year old can navigate using a compass and map.

 

[Shift Inhibit]

The company has disciplined guys for wiring up stereos in the truck.

Yep, stealing “power” … a guy they hated got a warning letter lol

 

[rod]

You don't need to buy a map. You can just print out a map of whatever route you are doing at one of the computers at your center which also shows where all your delivery and pickups points are.

My center at one point also had the Thomas Guide digital edition software CD where you could zoom in and print out the area that you will be working. It shows the block numbers as well which comes in handy. My center got rid of it when they upgraded the OS because it was no longer compatible.

Damn you guys have it easy now. No wonder they have you running twice the stops we used to.

 

[nWo]

Just switch the cradle out after you leave the building. Nobody will know.

 

[nWo]

I mean I wouldn't pay my own money from a cradle from eBay. But if you did. Leave the building. Put in the one you bought. And put the broken one back when you finish for the night. Nobody will know unless you tell them.

 

[Orion’s making me 💰]

The company refuses to supply us with new cradles. They are waiting for the upgrade. So are these new driver supposed to go out with 230 stops, no helper, no navigation, spending $100 sounds a lot better than 14 hour days

Fool. We did this job for over 100 years without navigation.

 

[DumbTruckDriver]

I mean I wouldn't pay my own money from a cradle from eBay. But if you did. Leave the building. Put in the one you bought. And put the broken one back when you finish for the night. Nobody will know unless you tell them.

Where I’m at, they post the previous day’s Orion numbers every morning. The vast majority of the cradles don’t work, so it would look quite fishy if the same cover drivers have 100% cradle usage every day no matter what truck they’re in.

 

[SorryLazyPOS]

Fool. We did this job for over 100 years without navigation.

Damn your old

 

[Poop Head]

Fool. We did this job for over 100 years without navigation.

Christopher Columbus didnt have mapnav.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Christopher Columbus didnt have mapnav.

The world was flat he didn't need a map back then

 

[burrheadd]

Where I’m at, they post the previous day’s Orion numbers every morning. The vast majority of the cradles don’t work, so it would look quite fishy if the same cover drivers have 100% cradle usage every day no matter what truck they’re in.

Who cares
SMDH

 

[DumbTruckDriver]

Who cares
SMDH

I don’t care. I couldn’t care less about their numbers. Just saying management would notice.

Now that I’m thinking about it, they would probably love the “ingenuity” of frantic runner newbies buying their own equipment.

 

[Red Devil]

Christopher Columbus didnt have mapnav.

And that maroon didn’t even know what continent he was on! Just think, if the Nina the Pinta or the Santa Maria had a cradle, he may have made it to the Indies after all.

 

[PASinterference]

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Stay here long enough and you’ll end up looking like this lady…

That's a Minnesota lady

 

[summersaltstains]

The company refuses to supply us with new cradles. They are waiting for the upgrade. So are these new driver supposed to go out with 230 stops, no helper, no navigation, spending $100 sounds a lot better than 14 hour days

I wouldn’t count on the cradle preventing 14 hour days. My first peak with a cradle was by far my heaviest.