Trimble

[Barnacle]

the score should show on your PDA, anything below 96% flags up your own manager's reports.

I have never understood these posties who are continually checking these PDA scores, the question is why?

Because it isn't a surprise when you get called in by the COM to explain why your score is continually below 90% when the rest of the office is above 95%?

It's hardly taken that much effort to check your scores anyway.

There is no way any com in our office would dare embarrass themselves by trying to drag someone for My Performance/Doorstep scores.

I never ever look at it. Don’t even click the tab.

What they never speak to a driver who regularly has a Trimble score below 90% and is also regularly speeding? All My Performance/Doorstep does is reflect the Trimble information our managers have always been able to see.

No one is taken into the office to chat about Trimble scores. A comment might be made in passing but that would be it. It is meaningless data. If there were points on your license and blue flashing lights following you on your round they might have a point but as it stands it means nothing.

[TopperGas]

the score should show on your PDA, anything below 96% flags up your own manager's reports.

I have never understood these posties who are continually checking these PDA scores, the question is why?

Because it isn't a surprise when you get called in by the COM to explain why your score is continually below 90% when the rest of the office is above 95%?

It's hardly taken that much effort to check your scores anyway.

There is no way any com in our office would dare embarrass themselves by trying to drag someone for My Performance/Doorstep scores.

I never ever look at it. Don’t even click the tab.

What they never speak to a driver who regularly has a Trimble score below 90% and is also regularly speeding? All My Performance/Doorstep does is reflect the Trimble information our managers have always been able to see.

No one is taken into the office to chat about Trimble scores. A comment might be made in passing but that would be it. It is meaningless data. If there were points on your license and blue flashing lights following you on your round they might have a point but as it stands it means nothing.

Strange the way some offices seem to work totally different to others, it's hardly meaningless if one driver is regularly scoring below 90% and constantly speeding, as sure as night follows day they are eventually going to have an accident.

[Jonathan Alsatian]

My managers never pull anyone for repeated speeding, or other trimble violations unless they have an accident. Trimble is overly sensitive to things like accelerating onto a roundabout. After a while of getting used to it beeping every day and zero repercussions from management people become blasé and just ignore it. My colleague openly admits he speeds all the time. Its in the management interests to unofficially turn a blind eye to speeding so that the parcel drivers bring less stuff back.

However. If you have a bump. Even if its not your fault.They will check the trimble data for that shift and if you've exceeded the speed limit by even 5mph they will hang you out to dry. The best policy is obey the speed limits and bring back anything you don't have time to deliver because they won't thank you for getting it all delivered in any case plus it gives the higher ups unrealistic expectations of how much we should all be delivering if people dash around. When people boast that they've delivered huge amounts in a short time I just respond "why the hurry, hope you weren't speeding"

[Barnacle]

the score should show on your PDA, anything below 96% flags up your own manager's reports.

I have never understood these posties who are continually checking these PDA scores, the question is why?

Because it isn't a surprise when you get called in by the COM to explain why your score is continually below 90% when the rest of the office is above 95%?

It's hardly taken that much effort to check your scores anyway.

There is no way any com in our office would dare embarrass themselves by trying to drag someone for My Performance/Doorstep scores.

I never ever look at it. Don’t even click the tab.

What they never speak to a driver who regularly has a Trimble score below 90% and is also regularly speeding? All My Performance/Doorstep does is reflect the Trimble information our managers have always been able to see.

No one is taken into the office to chat about Trimble scores. A comment might be made in passing but that would be it. It is meaningless data. If there were points on your license and blue flashing lights following you on your round they might have a point but as it stands it means nothing.

Strange the way some offices seem to work totally different to others, it's hardly meaningless if one driver is regularly scoring below 90% and constantly speeding, as sure as night follows day they are eventually going to have an accident.

How much speeding someone could get away with depends upon where your office is. Where I work there are speed cameras everywhere, so there have been people who have been done for speeding and quite correctly.
But a Trimble beeping doesn’t equate to points on your license so it’s not worth worrying about.

[hewittinspain]

I had a van before Xmas with no Trimble. I ragged it about a bit thinking I'd got away with it but the next day my driving score was low. I'm guessing PDA still tracks your driving ?
People regularly being pulled into the office under a score of 97%, idling is the one that lowers the score quickly. People are having to turn their engine off at traffic lights.. unreal!!
Thinks like this is the reason I left

[fadetogrey63]

I had a van before Xmas with no Trimble. I ragged it about a bit thinking I'd got away with it but the next day my driving score was low. I'm guessing PDA still tracks your driving ?
People regularly being pulled into the office under a score of 97%, idling is the one that lowers the score quickly. People are having to turn their engine off at traffic lights.. unreal!!
Thinks like this is the reason I left

I was told PDAs can track only speeding, the trimble tracks the speed and all the other crap, and in what other world apart from Royal Mails would a score below 97% be considered as a failure,

[TopperGas]

I had a van before Xmas with no Trimble. I ragged it about a bit thinking I'd got away with it but the next day my driving score was low. I'm guessing PDA still tracks your driving ?
People regularly being pulled into the office under a score of 97%, idling is the one that lowers the score quickly. People are having to turn their engine off at traffic lights.. unreal!!
Thinks like this is the reason I left

I was told PDAs can track only speeding, the trimble tracks the speed and all the other crap, and in what other world apart from Royal Mails would a score below 97% be considered as a failure,

That would make sense re speeding as I can't see a decade old Doblo has a reliable GPS device fitted to it, I assume the Trimble on those vehicles just works on breaking, acceleration and turning.

[CharlesSpooner]

If I'm on a delivery that's all 20/30mph residential then my driver score is near enough always 99%+

Any delivery that involves bumpy rural tracks, 60/70mph roads and big roundabouts then that score drops into the 80%s even though I don't speed or hammer around corners - I'm in no rush whatsoever.

The trimbles as they are simply aren't calibrated correctly to deal with high speed roads or bumpy tracks / non regular roads. They can't accept that when you're joining a high speed road then you have to accelerate fairly quickly to match speed with traffic already on there.

[ted_e_bear]

If I'm on a delivery that's all 20/30mph residential then my driver score is near enough always 99%+

Any delivery that involves bumpy rural tracks, 60/70mph roads and big roundabouts then that score drops into the 80%s even though I don't speed or hammer around corners - I'm in no rush whatsoever.

The trimbles as they are simply aren't calibrated correctly to deal with high speed roads or bumpy tracks / non regular roads. They can't accept that when you're joining a high speed road then you have to accelerate fairly quickly to match speed with traffic already on there.

Spot on, as you say leaving the DO and tootling round the local housing estate no problem but having to repeatedly join/leave 40 or 50moh roads whilst maintaining reasonable progress then you run into those issues.

[lincolnshirepostie]

I've driven a lot of vans (maybe about 30) most with trimbles, and it's quie funny, trimbles seem to be more or less sensitive depending on the van.

Part of one of my old parcel routes was along a main road where I had to accelerate up to 70, and it was constantly in the red, for me to not trick the trimble I would've posed as a danger to the road and potentially caused an accident!

If you're not speeding or squealing the tyres I wouldn't worry.