USPS To Begin GPS Vehicle Tracking Project
Tampa, Fl. - May 2, 2008 - GPS Fleet Solutions today announced an agreement with the US Postal Service to begin a GPS vehicle tracking project. Harold Gardner, Vice President of Sales, stated this 500 unit pilot is to be installed in greater Chicagoland. Key expectations from this project include improved route efficiency, driver safety, customer service, and reduced vehicle costs. Sources estimate the Postal Service’s fleet to include approximately 35,000 route delivery vehicles.
GPS Fleet Solutions will provide a turnkey service including project management, installation, configuration, training, and support for this project.
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May 2nd, 2008 at 4:41 pm
GPS can definitely improve productivity - it just depends if people will use it. Good luck with your pilot project.
May 4th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
hallalulia……1984 finally arrived…
May 4th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
What next ?????
May 5th, 2008 at 8:10 am
They need to keep track of INCOMPETENT UNION SLUGS!
May 5th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
I wonder how much it will cost per vechicle per year? Probably another Billion in the red for the year….sigh…\\At least it’s not the same company that sold us those great scanners
May 9th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Does anyone remember the tacographs?
May 11th, 2008 at 9:02 am
we lose 707 million for the quarter but think buying GPS for vehicles is a good investment. I see where this is important — we travel so far from the office, we probably lose 20 cariers a day.
May 11th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Don’t forget all the money that was left on the table when the “we’re just lucky to have jobs”
9 to 1 contingency voted to accept that worthless NALC contract.
The PO has to spend that money somewhere.
GPS, FSS the future’s so bright I gotta wear shades!
May 15th, 2008 at 8:17 am
I think GPS is a great idea,Cut back on the need for managment supervision on the street, while doing away with the s_ _ T bum carriers !!!!
May 19th, 2008 at 11:02 am
just another form of harrasment
May 27th, 2008 at 8:56 am
hard working professional carriers have nothing to worry about!
May 27th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
another reason to hire another manager to sit and watch a dot! Undoughtably no one seen the comercial about dont mess with my dots!!!I feel that Im a little better than that!
May 28th, 2008 at 9:32 am
now we go after the white house staff and cheneys lackeys too..
May 28th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
instead of spending money on gps why not spending some money on ac for the LLV last saturday inside my truck it shows 113 degrees, how long can a human being survive that temperature .is it safe according to osha standards. i would like to know.
May 30th, 2008 at 5:41 am
Oh boy, a whole new wave of fact findings and letter of warnings. I can see it now, a customer stops you for about 10 minutes with a flood of questions, the next day your in the office to explain an extra break.
May 31st, 2008 at 11:42 am
Track vehicles, hell they can’t even track all of their Exoress and Priority delivery confirmation. How will this improve anything
June 2nd, 2008 at 11:52 am
Next step will be to place MSP points in the Rest Room!
June 2nd, 2008 at 12:36 pm
The savings in overtime alone will pay for all of these in the first day.
June 3rd, 2008 at 5:38 am
WHEN I STARTED IN THE POST OFFICE FIRST CLASS MAIL WAS FIVE CENTS AND WE DELIVERED BUSINESS ROUTES TWICE A DAY! THERE WAS NO OVERTIME!
June 3rd, 2008 at 5:40 am
I STARTED AT 2 DOLLARS AND FORTY ONE CENTS AN HR!
June 4th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Why not invest in a tracking system to track our customers mail instead of the employees? Our customers want to know where their mail is, they know where their carrier is. UPS has a system that not only tracks product but it also lets paranoid managers keep track of drivers. It also has text messaging which has an amazing impact on service and productivity. They get it. How about an RFID chip service? If we continue to waste money on ridiculous programs that do nothing to improve service then we are doomed.
June 5th, 2008 at 5:01 am
Forklifts in bigger plants are being tracked the same way. The GPS lets them know if we have been idle, where we are, how much mail we have moved everything they need and want to know about what we do. NOt Good!!!!
June 5th, 2008 at 10:31 am
gee, i sure hope we have to keep hitting those scans too as the idiot managers watch our progress on the radar screens. i think i’ll try to qualify for a gps watcher job. do you get no doze as a perc for watching a screen for ten hours(overtime included)? gregg morrisville pa
June 7th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Let’s concentrate on customer service. With gas approaching or exceeding $4 per gallon, the USPS can ill afford to invest in another boondoggle. You all remember the electric vehicle con job that was sold to us back in the 80’s.
June 8th, 2008 at 6:19 am
Who is tracking the RTS priority parcels that are postmarked December 2007 and still waiting in containers to be returned? Who is tracking CFS mail that sits for a week to be forwarded? Can we just get back to keeping the mail moving?
How about customer service? Hope I can retire before it goes down the toilet.
June 8th, 2008 at 8:52 am
IF EVERYONE HAD GOOD WORKING MORALS, NOT TAKE ADVANTAGE OF WHAT THE UNION HAS TO OFFER, WORK HARD AS THEY DID TO GET THEIR JOB, MANAGE THEIR ROUTES WITH HONESTY, WE WOULDNT BE IN THIS SITUATION. THERE ARE ALOT OF GREAT CARRIERS WORKING HARD EVERYDAY, AND NOW HAVING TO PICK UP THE SLACK FOR THE ONES THAT (DESERVE THEIR PAYCHECK WITHOUT WORKING FOR IT) THE HARD WORKING CARRIERS ARE THE ONES WHO ARE SUFFERING.
GPS? MSP’S? CPM’S? LETS HOLD PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE TO DOING THEIR JOBS! CARRIERS!! MANAGERS!!! ITS EVERYONE.
June 9th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Been there, done that, The things lasted 3 weeks.
June 10th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Segways!
June 10th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
the 12 minute rule:
12 minutes a day, 5 days a week, 2 hours per pay period, 52 hours per year, do nothing, that’s how we’ll save the po
June 10th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Bushy screams in all CAPS he mustm be a real hard worker!
He’s probably all Blah! Blah! Blah! at work!