Orion tested today.

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

We are scheduled to get it in Sep 2015. I hope it gets pushed back to May 2019 so I won't have to deal with it.

 

[toonertoo]

It was not too bad today, I think I went 3 miles over what they wanted. But I know I had 126, and usually I would be 730, and I got in at 6, so we are doing more in less time, and costing jobs. They added stops into my air, that I couldnt get, and a bunch of resis from another loop, to do right after my air, causing me to deliver my meat of my route the heavy commercial after Noon.
I called in and said I am not doing that.
So I skipped all that ran the route the way it was set up after that, and did that section at the end. It was in my 5000 section, and I could not fight the bulk to get to it anyway.....

 

[TooTechie]

Run a rural route. You will back into many driveways. Driving 10 miles around the block doesn't work.

We're talking about when you can drive around a block or to a culdesac. Also rural routes usually have 500s or 700s, not 1200s or 1400s. I had a 1400 half this week and if the ground isn't perfectly flat you couldn't back into one of you wanted to.

 

[Kicked Your Dog]

What shoots Orion in the foot, is the load density. Simple physics: I cannot get to shelf 6 in the 1st 4 hours of my day.

 

[degill7994]

Does orion take ito account one way streets? Is this even relevant?

It is supposed to but doesn't always work. had driver in our center with a lot of one way streets always had them going wrong way.

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[The Blackadder]

If we climbed over packages in the building like Orion wants us to do in the back of the car mgmt. would give us warning letters for working unsafely.

I refuse to climb over packages to get a house stop. If UPS wants to give me a warning letter and tells me I have to work unsafely I will frame it for any future driver that gets hurt. I am sure a workers comp. lawyer would love what Orion is telling us to do.

I wonder what OSHA would say about safe work with Orion?

 

[brownmonster]

We're talking about when you can drive around a block or to a culdesac. Also rural routes usually have 500s or 700s, not 1200s or 1400s. I had a 1400 half this week and if the ground isn't perfectly flat you couldn't back into one of you wanted to.

Johnny made a blanket statement that he will never back into a driveway. Obviously rural and city are different.