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<blockquote data-quote="scratch" data-source="post: 3231239" data-attributes="member: 1674">This is only my 43rd............at this point, I know that I can walk away from this job tomorrow and sit at home and do nothing for the rest of my life if I really want to. Peak has always been hard, but its only temporary for a little while. When I started driving in &#039;84, Peak was Thanksgiving until Christmas Eve. Now I have a Helper from mid-October until the second week of January. I&#039;m starting to get fed up with the constant stupid decisions made in day-to-day operations. The company doesn&#039;t have to make it so difficult to simply deliver boxes. The technology sounds good in the Boardroom, but on the front lines is poorly implemented. I have been on a mostly residential route that gets clobbered the last 21-22 years at Peak. I get a Helper, the last five years a golf cart route, and they also have to put in a temporary peak route that takes about a third of my area off. I might hit 60 hours only one week a year. This is the last year on my current route, I&#039;m eyeing one that is closer to home with less stops and a lot of windshield time. I&#039;m in good physical shape for a 59-year-old man. I still enjoy getting out of the house and making some decent money. I like my customers and they like me. So that is where I am at now. I think about my options every day. The Company has changed so much since I started stacking boxes in a trailer as a 17-year-old kid back in 1975. It used to fun, it&#039;s not anymore.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="scratch, post: 3231239, member: 1674"] This is only my 43rd............at this point, I know that I can walk away from this job tomorrow and sit at home and do nothing for the rest of my life if I really want to. Peak has always been hard, but its only temporary for a little while. When I started driving in '84, Peak was Thanksgiving until Christmas Eve. Now I have a Helper from mid-October until the second week of January. I'm starting to get fed up with the constant stupid decisions made in day-to-day operations. The company doesn't have to make it so difficult to simply deliver boxes. The technology sounds good in the Boardroom, but on the front lines is poorly implemented. I have been on a mostly residential route that gets clobbered the last 21-22 years at Peak. I get a Helper, the last five years a golf cart route, and they also have to put in a temporary peak route that takes about a third of my area off. I might hit 60 hours only one week a year. This is the last year on my current route, I'm eyeing one that is closer to home with less stops and a lot of windshield time. I'm in good physical shape for a 59-year-old man. I still enjoy getting out of the house and making some decent money. I like my customers and they like me. So that is where I am at now. I think about my options every day. The Company has changed so much since I started stacking boxes in a trailer as a 17-year-old kid back in 1975. It used to fun, it's not anymore. [/QUOTE]

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