“I want to be a driver!”

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

I hope it happens to you again.

I'll have to call my supervisor up and tell him to come out and open the door for me

 

[UnionStrong]

I'll have to call my supervisor up and tell him to come out and open the door for me

Slam the brakes on.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Slam the brakes on.

That doesn't always work

 

[UnionStrong]

That doesn't always work

No kidding. Then you crawl. Lol

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

No kidding. Then you crawl. Lol

No!

 

[UnionStrong]

No!

My crawling days ended awhile ago. Lol

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

My crawling days ended awhile ago. Lol

You only crawl after too many beers now

 

[UnionStrong]

You only crawl after too many beers now

To bed

 

[Sixth Punch Sense]

They have no clue, hell, I had no clue until I was up to my neck in packages in a bricked out P800.

Started peak 2019, finished packet Feb 2020. Then covid hit. Spent the next 7 months doing 300 stops out of a Penske. I would deliver straight air, then find an empty parking lot and pull everything out just to reorganize. Towards the end of covid I was a ninja. Last one out of the building but all my smalls were toted per shelf. Had Gaylords and totes dividing each shelf in the rear. Hit a new shelf and that corresponding shelf small tote was in the cab like an Amazon driver.

Driving now is easy, I never want to step into a rental again

 

[UnionStrong]

Started peak 2019, finished packet Feb 2020. Then covid hit. Spent the next 7 months doing 300 stops out of a Penske. I would deliver straight air, then find an empty parking lot and pull everything out just to reorganize. Towards the end of covid I was a ninja. Last one out of the building but all my smalls were toted per shelf. Had Gaylords and totes dividing each shelf in the rear. Hit a new shelf and that corresponding shelf small tote was in the cab like an Amazon driver.

Driving now is easy, I never want to step into a rental again

Sounds Hellish. . I would occasionally cover a route that was in a 24 footer, hated it with a passion.

 

[Sixth Punch Sense]

Sounds Hellish. . I would occasionally cover a route that was in a 24 footer, hated it with a passion.

Yep, truly awful. But nothing dispatch does to me can ever compare so I take each new day as that a new day.

Best words/advice that I heard as a newbie.

1. Slow is steady and steady is fast
2. It'll get done when it gets done
3. Get on the 95 list

 

[UnionStrong]

Yep, truly awful. But nothing dispatch does to me can ever compare so I take each new as that a new day.

Best words/advice that I heard as a newbie.

1. Slow is steady and steady is fast
2. It'll get done when it get's done
3. Get on the 95 list

No such thing as 9.5 list when I started. The senior drivers would say the same thing though, one stop at a time and don’t run.

 

[Sixth Punch Sense]

No such thing as 9.5 list when I started. The senior drivers would say the same thing though, one stop at a time and don’t run.

Never run, never work off the clock. Had a really good mentor, thankful for him. I have 3 senior drivers in my loop that show up 45 minutes early and sort there trucks. I show up 15 minutes early to shoot the with them, but won't touch a package off the clock.

 

[UnionStrong]

Never run, never work off the clock. Had a really good mentor, thankful for him. I have 3 senior drivers in my loop that show up 45 minutes early and sort there trucks. I show up 15 minutes early to shoot the with them, but won't touch a package off the clock.

It was the same, the biggest violators of working off the clock were some high seniority drivers. Go figure.

 

[Emergency Conditions]

Started peak 2019, finished packet Feb 2020. Then covid hit. Spent the next 7 months doing 300 stops out of a Penske. I would deliver straight air, then find an empty parking lot and pull everything out just to reorganize. Towards the end of covid I was a ninja. Last one out of the building but all my smalls were toted per shelf. Had Gaylords and totes dividing each shelf in the rear. Hit a new shelf and that corresponding shelf small tote was in the cab like an Amazon driver.

Driving now is easy, I never want to step into a rental again

Just working through covid while in progression would be bad enough but doing it out of a rental sounds like hell...

 

[Sixth Punch Sense]

Just working through covid while in progression would be bad enough but doing it out of a rental sounds like hell...

$20.50 an hour at 60 hours a week. The only grace was there was nothing to do if you weren't working

 

[JL 0513]

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[YourMissingCallTag]

5 tops. Most will bail after peak

Most will work a few days during peak then quietly park their bricked out package car in the yard and bail. Happens every Peak just like clockwork.

 

[Emergency Conditions]

Most will work a few days during peak then quietly park their bricked out package car in the yard and bail. Happens every Peak just like clockwork.

Or they'll no call no show after they hire on as a PVD "to get their foot in the door", proceed to get their Altima stuck in a snow bank and have to spend more than their days pay on an after hours tow truck call that UPS will refuse to reimburse them for.

 

[clean hairy]

Yep, truly awful. But nothing dispatch does to me can ever compare so I take each new day as that a new day.

Best words/advice that I heard as a newbie.

1. Slow is steady and steady is fast
2. It'll get done when it gets done
3. Get on the 95 list

#1 is so true!
Original Top Gear, star in a reasonably priced car.
Fastest times were the ones where it did not appear fast.
The ones who appeared to be flying around the track had not so good lap times.