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I don't think there's any substitute, especially in terms of overall transaction speed, to learning your route. A simple mapping system won't tell you which do

by hga 12y ago

I don't think there's any substitute, especially in terms of overall transaction speed, to learning your route. A simple mapping system won't tell you which door to deliver to or how best to get to it, and looking up every destination, especially at that level of detail if annotated, is going to slow you down significantly. That presumes low turnover, which we have to at least some degree in my home town of 55K, "metro area" of 200K.

mschaecher 12y ago
Yes but it'd be insanely easy for a company like UPS with the data it has to: - Give you a preprogrammed recommended stop route. - recommended stop route can auto-adjust throughout day based on variables like traffic etc - the only time you have to "look anything up" is when you need to manually change your recommended stop route. - and that could be done via simple voice commands I really find it hard to believe UPS doesn't have some kind of great GPS like this for most of it's fleet. Delivery routes in lower density parts of the country are going to be huge geographic areas too unlike a SF or NYC too. They supposedly use software to determine how to store packages in the back of a truck efficiently, I can't see how they wouldn't throw their same weight at navigation.