When I started we still had a few P-400's around. They were mostly last choice extras for split routes. A couple were kept around for years as shop trucks but completely phased out of package deliveries. I drove them a few times and what stood out most was how different every one was. They had been rewired and worked on so many times they were nothing like originally designed.
My first trucks were also p 600s. Narrow wooden shelves with splinters, had to learn real fast how to slide packages without getting stuck. Wooden bulkhead door too. Real relics. The p 400 was around too. After they disappeared they would resurface at peak.
I picked up a few splinters from those wooden shelves. The wood would be so rotten the splinters were hard to dig out.
Especially under the fingernails! Had to push with the palms! The shelves were so narrow, if you turned the corners wrong the packages fell off. Lot of resorting
Almost needed a step ladder to get in if you were short! Tough on the knees
Yup, package car drivers have it sooooooo easy now!
Not really, more stops and the packages are like freight
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You know he's not being serious.
Glad someone did!
