Savage21
#1 Saturday driver ✊
Time stealer!
Why?
- Thread starter Tortuga
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DriverNerd
Well-Known Member
I hear you. Next week we're supposed to have highs in the lower 80's. Going to be brutal.
Thebrownblob
Well-Known Member
Supposed to be almost triple digits here all week!!
Woo! blobs gonna Douse himself and Cocoa butter and let the sweat glisten off the glorious body for the ladies!!
KearsargeCoop
Baseball, dart board
My biggest issue with Orion is delivering across busy streets and delivering on hills, when in the winter I can not drive up them (or down them). I tend to use the map function to move those stops in line with the main streets and hit odds on my way back through that area to avoid crossing.
Pullman Brown
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1828 Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition of fair, “in a manner that is honest or impartial or that conforms to rules". Well the company agreed to the second part of this statement for survival/legal purposes because they think our whole pay and benefit package is not “fair” but I digress, in regards to the first part of that language it’s all subjective!
Pullman Brown
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Don’t know if this was said yet, but my understanding is the company was paying money for the maps so it was a economical decision.
oldngray
nowhere special
I can almost smell the bacon frying
100%ORIONComplianceGuy
25+ Year UPSer and Teamster
Says the runner and gunner that likely donates an embarrassing amount of time every morning studying the routes on the dispatch computers WAY before start time.
And it kills you that the rest of us refuse to put any extra (free) effort into it like you.
And because you’re too much of a coward to use ORION like I do because you are scared ro disappoint someone in the office.
And I bet you are already thinking/worrying about your day long before you even get to UPS. UPS lives in your head rent free.
And the dispatcher probably cringes when he sees your face. Correct? You’ve got “ Annoying Driver/Dispatcher” written all over you.
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Sissy Brown Short Shorts
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They’re getting rid of it because it allows drivers to destroy Orion. It’s too embarrassing to the IT guys. So just kill the map function. I’ll be honest, I only use the map screen to deliver. It makes the day so easy. It would totally screw me over if it disappeared, I honestly don’t really know my route at all after being on it for two years because I just point and click to the next stop that makes the most sense. I’ll enjoy the extra OT I guess.
Thebrownblob
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Bro, learn your route. You’ll be better off.
Pullman Brown
Well-Known Member
Hold up. Two years?? And you don’t know your route?!?! Know way you’re being serious!
Sissy Brown Short Shorts
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I know the streets but with the map function I have no reason to commit the house numbers to memory. I drove before mapnav and had multiple routes committed to memory, but if I don’t have to retain it I won’t bother. How many of us remember phone numbers anymore? I knew and still know tons from childhood but today I sometimes forget my own. You don’t use it you lose it.
Red Devil
The Power of Connected
Seems strange that it would still be available to PVDs in that case?
Pullman Brown
Well-Known Member
Limited time
Red Devil
The Power of Connected
Well at least that makes *some* sense if it is a financial decision. Maybe to save more money they should just take away the diads altogether and give us back clipboards
KearsargeCoop
Baseball, dart board
If it's a map rights issue why can helpers still use them. And what helper uses maps? My helper was awesome, two years on route...he just scanned and stop completed what I told him, didn't need to know where we were going 5 stops ahead.
tadpole
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That might work if the shelves aren’t packed but think of all the times where you DO know the hin and still can’t find the box. And doing that all day is going to cost a lot of time and mental energy.
I didn't deliver in the old days as the old timers like to describe, but I'm fairly certain they had to find stuff in packed trucks and there was no hin numbers. As for me, I'll just scroll all day if need be if I'm going to have service failures from Orion. It will pay well
JL 0513
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I was certain UPS owns its own mapping that came with the development of ORION. Remember when they had guys driving everywhere with their tablets pinpointing everything? UPS maps are much more location specific vs existing Google, Apple, or Microsoft maps. Our navigation typically brings us to correct docks, rear door delivery points, and down long residential driveways. Where Google Maps and others simply stops at the front of the building in the street by default.
I'd be surprised if UPS still had to pay for some underlying map software that ORION maps is based on and that it would be so expensive to make this type of cut.
