Most of these pertain to the 30-day probation ONLY
Show up early if your management team allows it to sort your truck. At least enough to get your day started smoothly.
Hustle
Drive the route in your own car. I drove mine and drew my own residential maps and wrote down all the number breaks for each block of the neighborhoods. Yea you are spending your own money and time but think of it as a return on investment once you qualify.
Stop the truck if needed and sort your next 10,20, or 30 stops.
If you must, skip that lunch until you get faster. I must stress this is strictly for qualifying only. Make that paper report look as good as possible.
Hustle.
Ask questions. Ask other drivers for tips (within being safe and honest). Sometimes the trainer can't or won't tell you everything, whether on purpose or not
Wear the correct uniform and meet appearance standards to the letter. Don't give them even the smallest reason to DQ you.
Hustle like your life depends on it. Short of being unsafe, get your jog on. Hustle. Hustle. Hustle.
At first, slow is smooth and smooth is fast. Concentrate on being smooth, not fast. It will come. Even down to something as little as the movement you make turning the truck off, getting the seat belt off, and getting the bulk head door open. Seconds count when you have 150 stops.
Do not have service failures. Get those airs off and hit those pick up windows.
Hustle
Don't count the cost of qualifying. Don't think about the 30 day period. Show up, be
ing awesome at everything, go home. No BS
I'll add more if I can think of anything. My trainer told me you need 3 things to qualify
1. Area knowledge-knowing the route. Memorizing addresses, landmarks, number breaks, and delivery points
2. Organization-overcoming a bad preloader. Keeping the truck sorted. Come in early if management allows
3. Hustle-motherflippin hustle
It comes down to this. Be safe, don't get hurt, and don't crash/hit anything with the truck. Beyond that, hustle. Deliver like you got something to prove. Perform the job as if someone is watching all day.
A lot of people complain about the job being hard or that the standards are too high. Basically they can't hack it. Yea the job is tough. They are going to pay you $25-$30+ an hour. And they WILL expect that amount of work in return.
There are going to be days it absolutely sucks. You'll be behind, you'll have too many stops, some customer will be mad at you, the weather will suck, and your truck might break down. All in the same day. It's not a matter of if it will happen, but when. But it comes down to this....
You either want it or you don't. You have to tell yourself, not matter how bad it gets, I'm going to make it. PERIOD
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