Next weeks orientation should more than fill the depleted ranks. If not there is always another orientation and another group eagerly awaiting their turn.
Panther Drivers what do you think?
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Next weeks orientation should more than fill the depleted ranks. If not there is always another orientation and another group eagerly awaiting their turn.
ebsprintin
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Scuba,
I'm sort of curious as to who these IT guys are. Is this Panther trying to build their own system or are they contractors who are supposed to know how to design these types of systems? I know people who do this kind of thing as contractors, and they go to the customer and actually live there while they are building the system. What kind of hacks are we dealing with here?
eb
I'm sort of curious as to who these IT guys are. Is this Panther trying to build their own system or are they contractors who are supposed to know how to design these types of systems? I know people who do this kind of thing as contractors, and they go to the customer and actually live there while they are building the system. What kind of hacks are we dealing with here?
eb
I believe they are in house folks. The bigger issue is implementing a program without a working knowledge of how it effects trucks in day to day operations. If so, you wouldn't see some of the current issues that it has created.
Should have consulted the drivers council and ran a pilot program before introduction.
Now they are in a reactionary mode that never should have happened.
This is a clear example of trying to complicate the simple.
The good news is that it can be adjusted to actually make it work.
Should have consulted the drivers council and ran a pilot program before introduction.
Now they are in a reactionary mode that never should have happened.
This is a clear example of trying to complicate the simple.
The good news is that it can be adjusted to actually make it work.
greg334
Veteran Expediter
They must have an awful big IT staff to do this.
I think it may been handed externally to get it done, maybe to the company that wrote their software or Qualcom?
Which ever it is/was, I would think that if they have a proprietary system in place, it would be a big waste of money on their part.
It seems to me that the prudent thing would have consulted with the council to align up resources for input on 'gathering requirements' end of the project before any code was written but again I don't find too many transportation companies actually know how to ask for results from IT people so the result of the time and money spent has some usability in their programs.
I think it may been handed externally to get it done, maybe to the company that wrote their software or Qualcom?
Which ever it is/was, I would think that if they have a proprietary system in place, it would be a big waste of money on their part.
It seems to me that the prudent thing would have consulted with the council to align up resources for input on 'gathering requirements' end of the project before any code was written but again I don't find too many transportation companies actually know how to ask for results from IT people so the result of the time and money spent has some usability in their programs.
I also do not quite understand how this new macro is working. We delivered a load in Carlisle PA, had a 1st out with a daily average of 7, but sat for 6 days without any load offers. We were in other areas that were poor with nothing there, but yet that is where it wanted us to go. One example is Symsonia, Ky. I am from Paducah,(next to Symsonia), they wanted us to EM there a couple of weeks back. We went only so we could check our mail and see family. They had also sent another truck there. Now the problem is Symsonia has never been considered a board considering if you blink you are through it. Unless you were to pick up a load of mail or a deceased person theres nothing there. So I am just trying to figure out how a place like that can be considered a board now.
I was born in Mayfield, but live in Murray now. I have no idea why Symsonia is a board. We get more loads out of Murray than we do Symsonia. For that matter, we get more loads out of Clinton and Fulton than we do Symsonia. We'll get a handful of loads a year out of Mid-America Machine there in Symsonia. There's a few other things there, but it's not much.
I think they threw a dart at western Kentucky. Good thing it didn't hit Possum Trot.
Maybe they chose Symsonia because it's still kown by many as Slab Town, cause the first "paved" roads there were made from wooden slab boards. (I still remember those slab roads).
I think they threw a dart at western Kentucky. Good thing it didn't hit Possum Trot.
Maybe they chose Symsonia because it's still kown by many as Slab Town, cause the first "paved" roads there were made from wooden slab boards. (I still remember those slab roads).