Just A UPS Guy
Bully.
Back in '82, I used to be able to throw a pigskin a quarter-mile.
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What'dyabringmetoday???
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burrhead is the MAN!
PreTrippin’
Can’t even pretrip
What'dyabringmetoday???
Banned
Sure thing tough guy...
ManInBrown
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By far the worst job in feeders. Let me see, go on the road and do 3-4CPUs and call it a day, or get moves jammed down my throat for 8 hours with a thousand cameras on every corner of the building watching you. “Why didn’t you hit complete? Are you done“ the only exception being if maybe there’s some small building that isn’t crazy and just needs a shifter and even then I wouldn’t do it. Maybe the last 2-3 years of my career. That’s it
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Eat. Sleep. Work. Jork.
burrheadd
KING Of GIFS
Yeet
Not gonna let ‘em catch the Midnight Rider
It has its pros and cons. The top 24 full time shifters at my hub get driver rate and they aren’t governed by DOT so they can get as much or as little time as they want. The job is zero stress. No traffic, no detours, no construction, no d* head drivers. Also, and probably the biggest draw for some, no drug tests.Shifting blows donkey dong. It’s hot as hell in them, time goes by slow asand yard control will stack moves on you so you’re constantly on the go
The cons, yard birds are hot as hell with only two fans blowing hot air in your face. This is a problem especially in Florida. It’s boring as hell being stuck in the yard all day. Constant supervision, there are cameras everywhere. And worst of all, you’re a friend* shifter.
I have NOT been lurking
Eat. Sleep. Work. Jork.
Frankin Park figured out the A/C solution:
The single axle Macks I trained on
Yeet
Not gonna let ‘em catch the Midnight Rider
I’d rather deal with the heat than deal with that heavy clutch and landing gears all day.
Cementups
Box Monkey
I personally loved the video. It helped me greatly getting into 43rd St last year my first and only time I've been there.
Cementups
Box Monkey
You lost me at "do 3-4 CPUs." No thanks. Id rather run to another center 4+ hours away and come back and go home. At least that's what I do when I'm stuck in a brown.
ManInBrown
Well-Known Member
We have a handful of those jobs that start early morning. You need 30 years for one of them. The rest of those jobs are 8:30pm and later start times.No thanks. I’ll do 3-4 CPU’s and be home at 8 every night.
I have NOT been lurking
Eat. Sleep. Work. Jork.
Clearly not sleepuh material
PreTrippin’
Can’t even pretrip
PreTrippin’
Can’t even pretrip
I love sitting on my ass. But I’d rather not do it thru 120 degree deserts in a rickety package car.
robot
Has A Large Member
Yeah running CPU’s makes the day go by faster for me. You can relax and chill out while waiting on a customer. Being on the road you gotta concentrate for hours at a time
ManInBrown
Well-Known Member
Also the time spent on the pallet dock cleaning the empty if you don’t work somewhere like WILPA where the pallet dock is fully staffed. Where I am we have a few good people on the pallet dock that are very helpful but we also clean the trailers. Finding empty, cleaning empty. Day flies doing CPU’s.
I‘ve covered the night runs that go far and even once or twice the morning ones. Hated the night ones, and didn’t even really care for the morning ones. Much rather stay local and do CPU’s. Now if you ask me midday start two CPU’s and then a rail or a night load somewhere, no. I’d rather do the far run. But thankfully I’m high enough up on the seniority list right now where 90% of the year I can start early enough to do only CPU jobs.
