ABF | Using AI to Plan City Routes

[CDL holder]

Has anyone had any experience with whether this is working or not? Hasn't UPS used something like this for decades, with no left turns being a primary goal?

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The city route optimization tool helps its LTL, ABF Freight, reduce mileage and decrease fuel consumption.

ArcBest saves $1M per month with AI routing tech

The city route optimization tool helps its LTL, ABF Freight, reduce mileage and decrease fuel consumption.

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[psykohog]

Our supervisor kicks everything out of the current system being used because they are smarter. Worst routing I have ever seen. The Fort used to check the routing occasionally but the supervisor knew when they were going to do it.

 

[REBELYELL]

ABF spent millions of Dollars on a routing system. The inbound supervisor with very little experience or knowledge of the streets would ignore the routing and just load freight on city runs so it wouldn't be on the dock when the terminal manager came in the morning. It was hilarious, we would have city guys passing each other all day. We would even be at the same stops at the same time with each of us only having one pallet a piece to deliver. and God help you if you tried to point this out. They held employee meetings on company time to tell you if you see something wrong report it to a supervisor, and if you did this you were labeled a troublemaker and problem employee.

 

[Big Dave]

Our supervisor kicks everything out of the current system being used because they are smarter. Worst routing I have ever seen. The Fort used to check the routing occasionally but the supervisor knew when they were going to do it.

What…..you don’t like going to a stop two…sometimes three times a day to get their deliveries off??

 

[SMOKESTACK]

Okay ya all can throw away your pencils .
Well the people that even know what they
are .

 

[victor93]

Okay ya all can throw away your pencils .
Well the people that even know what they
are .

My brother in-law has a pencil with erasers on both ends........it's pointless

 

[ABF381]

ABF spent millions of Dollars on a routing system. The inbound supervisor with very little experience or knowledge of the streets would ignore the routing and just load freight on city runs so it wouldn't be on the dock when the terminal manager came in the morning. It was hilarious, we would have city guys passing each other all day. We would even be at the same stops at the same time with each of us only having one pallet a piece to deliver. and God help you if you tried to point this out. They held employee meetings on company time to tell you if you see something wrong report it to a supervisor, and if you did this you were labeled a troublemaker and problem employee.

Same exact thing at my barn....my steward actually took a picture of a guy picking up at a customer while he was delivering two dock doors down......can't make this up.....I have gone 25 miles out of my way to do a pickup only to pass another ABF driver 3 miles away from the pickup....after he had driven by it!!!

 

[Big Dave]

while he was delivering two doors down

Was he laughing and drinking and having a party??
Or was he on lunch….

 

[ABF381]

Was he laughing and drinking and having a party??
Or was he on lunch….

He was skipping lunch to get home early...

 

[Big Dave]

He was skipping lunch to get home early...

To work on his taxes from all those 1099B’s (Bonus) he got??…..

 

[seabreeze]

What…..you don’t like going to a stop two…sometimes three times a day to get their deliveries off??

I hear some avoid this by dumping it in a ravine

 

[victor93]

Was he laughing and drinking and having a party??
Or was he on lunch….

Didn't Dolly sing that?

 

[Triplex]

Was he laughing and drinking and having a party??
Or was he on lunch….

Why do you assume those things are mutually exclusive?

 

[Triplex]

I hear some avoid this by dumping it in a ravine

Did I ever tell you... Oh never mind I think I already did.

 

[GO40]

Same exact thing at my barn....my steward actually took a picture of a guy picking up at a customer while he was delivering two dock doors down......can't make this up.....I have gone 25 miles out of my way to do a pickup only to pass another ABF driver 3 miles away from the pickup....after he had driven by it!!!

Carlisle has been watching our routes questioning why the driver didn't go a certain way. The answer is, they didn't remove the low bridges they didn't change the weight limits & they cant avoid contractors for closing streets. Also by going a mile out of my to avoid making a dangerous right hander with a 53 then that's what I'm going to do. It's been working for the last 33 years (knock on wood)

 

[Triplex]

Carlisle has been watching our routes questioning why the driver didn't go a certain way. The answer is, they didn't remove the low bridges they didn't change the weight limits & they cant avoid contractors for closing streets. Also by going a mile out of my to avoid making a dangerous right hander with a 53 then that's what I'm going to do. It's been working for the last 33 years (knock on wood)

Doesn't that give you a headache after a while, the knock on wood I mean?

 

[BIG R GUY]

He was skipping lunch to get home early...

Ted skipped lunch, and look what happened. Route planner sent him this way.

 

[Steward of the Rock]

Ted skipped lunch, and look what happened. Route planner sent him this way.

So…….that is how they convert a 53’ van into a 28’ pup!!!

 

[Triplex]

Ted skipped lunch, and look what happened. Route planner sent him this way.

Looks like he got railroaded.

 

[seabreeze]

Looks like he got railroaded.

Here we go, let us keep this topic on track.