You go back to work Tuesday? Stop drinking now and you might be sober enough to drive...barely.
Has UPS done anything right recently?
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FrigidAdCorrector
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They weren't looking to overpay. Two years of losses and cuts made them a smaller company.
Winner. Atlanta didn't care about anything besides getting rid of a competitor.
They did have insight. They were willing to roll over to the regulators and pay them off. They are also spinning off the airline since the FedEx pilot's union contract forbids an outside carrier from running mainline ops.
It's a crying shame we only deliver in the NYC area....
Winner winner. FedEx should thank us for saving them 2 billion
bluehdmc
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They bought a fleet of trucks a couple of years ago that were too high to go through the Lincoln Tunnel, just bought more trucks from the same manufacturer and they are.............TOO HIGH to go through the Lincoln Tunnel!!
Genius!!!
Frigid AdCorrector said:
It's a crying shame we only deliver in the NYC area....
The point was if someone was thinking, when the spec'd out the tractors they could have spec'd them out 2" shorter!
Then they wouldn't have to worry about sending a driver to NYC, now you have drivers unaware of the problem till they get to the Lincoln tunnel and having to detour. It seems the people who ordered vehicles don't have a clue how they are used. That goes for Feeders and package cars.
They bought a fleet of trucks a couple of years ago that were too high to go through the Lincoln Tunnel, just bought more trucks from the same manufacturer and they are.............TOO HIGH to go through the Lincoln Tunnel!!
Genius!!!
Frigid AdCorrector said:
It's a crying shame we only deliver in the NYC area....
The point was if someone was thinking, when the spec'd out the tractors they could have spec'd them out 2" shorter!
Then they wouldn't have to worry about sending a driver to NYC, now you have drivers unaware of the problem till they get to the Lincoln tunnel and having to detour. It seems the people who ordered vehicles don't have a clue how they are used. That goes for Feeders and package cars.
Dracula
Package Car is cake compared to this...
Hahahahahaha.....
15 years later? Nah, you're right. I wouldn't say one and done either. Does Charlie, Lucy and the football mean anything to you?
Someday, Charlie is BOUND to get that football...
Catatonic
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Uh, who cares? You're still getting paid, aren't you? Are you filling out management paperwork, or something?
Dracula
Package Car is cake compared to this...
https://www.fastcompany.com/3004319/brown-down-ups-drivers-vs-ups-algorithm
Why didn't the supervisors think of this? "You do 150 stops a day. The computer says you can do 165 a day. Beat the computer."
"OK, boss, I'll beat the computer and do 175 a day."
Good thing Fast Company didn't interview a real driver.
Why didn't the supervisors think of this? "You do 150 stops a day. The computer says you can do 165 a day. Beat the computer."
"OK, boss, I'll beat the computer and do 175 a day."
Good thing Fast Company didn't interview a real driver.
Dracula
Package Car is cake compared to this...
Why, yes, I am getting paid. I'll leave the paperwork for Dave . He seems obsessed with that. I'll go home and set up my tripod and take pictures like you.
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FrigidAdCorrector
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Or you send the package car that is too high to a center in Iowa or Missouri where tunnels aren't a concern. Not rocket science.
You're telling me you started ORION 15 years ago?
from the article linked above...
"ORION was first conceived in 2000, but wasn’t tested till 2008."
https://www.fastcompany.com/3004319/brown-down-ups-drivers-vs-ups-algorithm
Browndriver5
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It like the movie Moneyball. Math can only take you so far into the playoffs. lol
Dracula
Package Car is cake compared to this...
They began on it in 2000. Implementing it in 2008 or so.
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FrigidAdCorrector
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So what you're telling me is that they in fact have not had 15 years. Unless 2015-2008 somehow equals 15 now
oldngray
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Recently a driver from the first center to get ORION chimed in on this forum. He said that they implemented it 5 years ago and no longer use it.
Dracula
Package Car is cake compared to this...
Read the article. They began work on it in 2000. Unless my trucker math is wrong, 2000 minus 2015 equals 15. 15 years. That was the whole point. 15 years of work, and it still doesn't seem to work right. One would imagine after 8 years of ironing out the details, they might have a better handle on it.
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FrigidAdCorrector
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Alright but many companies work on products for 8 years and continually improve it. Apple didn't release the iPhone and say "Okay we're done." I'd be willing to bet the Orion we see today is very little of what the Orion of 2008 was.
the iphone started it's development in 2004, according to wikipedia, and was released for sale in 2007.
Eight generations have since been released and we are still stuck on Orion 1???
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