Watching delivery drivers movements via tracking

badmemory

I have decided I need a megaphone so that I can shout through it "you are delivering to the wrong house".  You have no idea how frustrating it can be when you can't grab your stick fast enough & then run to stop the misdelivery.

forgotmyname

I wonder whether it's a data protection issue, the marker should not be directly outside houses so it randomly places it within
a  # mile range which maybe why it comes closer and moves away again even if it was on your street.

EssexExile

My window cleaner uses the same software. He does next door then disappears for a few hours, then he does the house opposite before going off again. Eventually he returns to my house.

GDB2222

forgotmyname said:

I wonder whether it's a data protection issue, the marker should not be directly outside houses so it randomly places it within
a  # mile range which maybe why it comes closer and moves away again even if it was on your street.

But you can watch the guy delivering and get exactly the same data. 

debitcardmayhem

Many of the drivers we get often stay stationary in the High Street about 1/2 mile away for varying amounts of time. Usually outside the fish & chip shop.🐟 🍟

Heedtheadvice

MouldyOldDough said:

Heedtheadvice said:

Must be reading this thread and trying to annoying you 

possibly yes

he's sitting in his van at the end of my road - stationary and has been for a good ten minutes

Is it you - heedtheadvice ?

It might be. I'm sure I used to have stationery....now which house did I drop it outside....did you have slippers on when I took that proof of delivery photo?....you should really have come to the door with more on.....

Sitting there for only ten minutes? Not me. I don't move that fast!

I asked a driver once, when he was sitting in his van right outside my house, if I could take the parcel from him and save some time on his rounds? Answer was no as deliveries were timed and the deliverers  were marked down on performance if they delivered outside the time window so had to wait 10 mins or so..... After a few minutes chat about the weather etc he could then hand it over!True story!!

B0bbyEwing

MouldyOldDough said:

Surely they must put the postcodes and house numbers in to a program that decides the best route for them ?

This delivery guy is definitely lost or is purposely zig zagging in all directions

Why surely?

Working in/with transport myself the company I work for don't even do this. 
I assume there's something like this exists where if you have 100 deliveries you put in 100 post codes & it spits out the best order to do them in but I've no idea how much those things cost if they exist. 
I also know that with many transport firms since everything is moving towards digital & doing away with paper forms to be signed on delivery, it's down to the driver to provide the device [phone] which they then download various apps depending on who the delivery is through & on this the customer then signs for the delivery.

* slightly off topic here but was speaking to one chap who issued me paper to sign & asked what happens if he had a phone & I was to drop it on the floor & smash it. He told me that's why he's on paper - because that exact thing happened at a previous drop, the unloader refused to cover damages & the delivery drivers company refused to cover damages so he said right then I'm not using my phone for work ever again, you better give me paper copies from now on.

So if it's down to the driver to provide these devices then it's not necessarily "surely" that they'll have them - depending how much they cost. Some people wont spend a penny on work, others are happy to fork out a lot of money.

400ixl

Yes, last mile planning software exists, and yes Amazon use it.

bazdvd

so did the delivery turn up and if so what time did it arrive?

MouldyOldDough

bazdvd said:

so did the delivery turn up and if so what time did it arrive?

Yes eventually at about 4pm