UPS adds dynamic routing to ORION, saving 2-4 miles per driver

[Big Rigger]

Crossing over a 4 lane highway, making right hand turns into traffic, reaching out of your range of motion to reach for pkgs out of sequence and climbing over pkgs are all unsafe methods but all those safe methods goes out the window when you are told to follow ORION. You either follow ORION or Work Safe. To do safe work methods 100% of the time you have to eliminate all the above examples of unsafe conditions I mentioned above and then you would have to pretty much throw ORION out completely. It is like them telling you “You are instructed to jump in that pool but don’t get wet” It is impossible to do both 100% of the time and if someone says I follow ORION as much as safe. Well then how can you be told you have to follow it 90% of the time. What if eliminating ”All” unsafe actions of ORION means you can only follow it 40% of the time that day?

What it means is that you will not climb over pkgs and omit using your power zone. Unloading the truck to get to out of reach pkgs is working safely and following orion. End of story. That is all I commented on.
The company leadership knows that stupid drivers will do stupid things to make their stupid fake numbers.

I remember a driver telling the center manager that he could run a metro route scratch that no driver could get within an hour of that ever changing goal line. He's out on disability now... probably his seventh surgery since he's been running like a raped ape. Have at it. Upsers learn way too late that they are pawns on a chessboard and the carrot on the stick is never closer no matter how hard you run.

 

[Big Rigger]

Orion is a prominent constellation located on the celestial equator and visible throughout the world.

AKA pie-in-the-sky.

Looks like the milky way of stock enhancement to those in the ivory, I mean, marble towers of Glenlake Pkwy.

 

[Brownslave688]

I found that the best way to set up a route was to go on route with the driver and get the drivers input and then work with the preload to get them to load the drivers package car as such......that way the drivers area knowledge was incorporated/built into their route ....who was I to tell a driver with 20 years on the same area and knew the seasonal restraints and all of her/his customers and was often times able to drop off their parcels at their place of work......most of my time and effort was on the preload getting their brownie loaded correctly.......

Drop off at their place of work. Only if they’re a maroon. Quick way to themselves

 

[zubenelgenubi]

ORION: A cautionary tale

ORION 1.0 - basically RDO with some minor, but really stupid, stop shuffling just to show that ORION actually does something, even though it's worse.

ORION 2.0 - Apparently the ORION solution is the complete randomization of a route.

ORION 3.0 - all the randomization of 2.0, several times a day.

 

[burrheadd]

These new supervisors are going to know where your route is unless they can see it on the computer screen
They're all 30-day wonders that never had any experience delivering packages and probably most of them still live at home with mommy and daddy..

All the full times drive late model BMW’s
It’s hilarious

 

[iowa boy]

Dispatch sup taught me how to turn it off. Makes life so much easier...

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

All the full times drive late model BMW’s
It’s hilarious

Lots of fancy cars out in the parking lot

 

[charm299]

Dispatch sup taught me how to turn it off. Makes life so much easier...

Please tell us

 

[Est.1998]

Please tell us

Probably involves being on the dispatchers (management) computer.
I'd stay away from that and just continue to play games with orion all day.

 

[Brownslave688]

Please tell us

Why? So much easier and more lucrative just running it as is.

 

[charm299]

Why? So much easier and more lucrative just running it as is.

Still would be better to know than not know

 

[Kidicster]

They want 90% trace compliance, I average 70% and run between 5 to 20 miles less than Orion.
Orion is an abject failure but the company defends it with a a cult like fanaticism because they can’t admit they have failed.

Amen