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>software before the driver took the truck The UPS route-planning system is called ORION. >they just follow the GPS I'd reckon that anyone on a bid route or

>software before the driver took the truck The UPS route-planning system is called ORION. >they just follow the GPS I'd reckon that anyone on a bid route or other route that they are familiar with can do better than what ORION gives us. We aren't taking solely distance into account, that would be far too simple. We're considering other factors too, including hard time constraints like next day air commit times, regularly scheduled pickups, irregular pickups, business hours, and whether we can even physically access the packages [0, 1] that the system wants us to deliver. >I don't think drivers re-plan their shift. We most certainly do, we wouldn't finish the day if we blindly followed trace. [0] https://youtu.be/fMeBkPd8ZJk https://youtu.be/fMeBkPd8ZJk [1] https://youtu.be/Oi4DW04_D5o https://youtu.be/Oi4DW04_D5o

toomuchtodo 6y ago
My understanding from someone who contributed to the development of ORION is that drivers are encouraged to try to “beat” ORION’s route guidance and those improvements are incorporated into the route planner. Any truth to that?
- garrettgrimsley 6y ago
  Simply put, there's no way this is the case. There's a route that I and everyone else I've spoken to all run a certain way and improvements have not been incorporated into the route planning. On this particular route if you run the apartments when ORION wants you to then you'll arrive there after Amazon and FedEx have filled the parcel lockers with their delivery volume, and you'll spend an hour delivering your volume to each individual apartment door. On this route you need to deliver certain dense and volume-heavy areas before your pickups so that you'll have enough room to fit the pickups into the vehicle. I would love to see ORION automatically learn about when streets and such are added, removed, or otherwise changed, but that's a manual process. I can ask the dispatcher about what you're talking about, but as a driver I have seen no such behavior.
  - toomuchtodo 6y ago
    Unfortunate to hear, appreciate the reply.
nraynaud 6y ago
great info, thank you. Sorry for the wrong guesses on your job.

toomuchtodo 6y ago

My understanding from someone who contributed to the development of ORION is that drivers are encouraged to try to “beat” ORION’s route guidance and those improvements are incorporated into the route planner. Any truth to that?

garrettgrimsley 6y ago
Simply put, there's no way this is the case. There's a route that I and everyone else I've spoken to all run a certain way and improvements have not been incorporated into the route planning. On this particular route if you run the apartments when ORION wants you to then you'll arrive there after Amazon and FedEx have filled the parcel lockers with their delivery volume, and you'll spend an hour delivering your volume to each individual apartment door. On this route you need to deliver certain dense and volume-heavy areas before your pickups so that you'll have enough room to fit the pickups into the vehicle. I would love to see ORION automatically learn about when streets and such are added, removed, or otherwise changed, but that's a manual process. I can ask the dispatcher about what you're talking about, but as a driver I have seen no such behavior.
- toomuchtodo 6y ago
  Unfortunate to hear, appreciate the reply.

nraynaud 6y ago

great info, thank you. Sorry for the wrong guesses on your job.