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<blockquote data-quote="kingOFchester" data-source="post: 1095630" data-attributes="member: 11246">Do you or have you been a driver?&nbsp; In life, what one may find difficult, someone else may find easy.&nbsp; My experience, preloaded 1.5 years and drove 4 years, driving is more physically demanding on MY body.&nbsp; As a preloader I loaded probably about 1000 packages a day.&nbsp; From the slide to no further then 40 feet and 5 feet at the least.&nbsp; So lets say that is an average of 25 feet, and I think I am being generous at that.&nbsp; So lets call that 25,000 feet lifting boxes.&nbsp; As a driver I average about 300 pieces on the routes that I cover.&nbsp; Use hand truck for maybe 20 pieces top on average.&nbsp; So 275 pieces have to make it from a truck to the front door of a customer. I am willing to be on average the doors are 150 feet plus away from truck.&nbsp; That comes 41,250 feet lifting boxes.&nbsp; As a driver we also have to contend with hills up driveways, upstairs, out the front of a truck, out the back of a truck.&nbsp; We do not have the luxury of walking straight from a slide/belt/boxline to the back of a shelf not contending with stepS.&nbsp; Some trucks do not have power steering and also an unnecessary high step.&nbsp;&nbsp; Don&#039;t get me started on the million of decisions we have to make on the fly everyday.&nbsp; Preload is no picnic.&nbsp; But I can tell you every preloader that I know that went from loading to driving are shocked how much more demanding driving is over preloading.&nbsp; This is my experience.What was not added to my day:Packages where the customer isn&#039;t home and I do not have the option to DR, need to be taken back to truck.The 100+ pieces that I pick up everyday need to be put in the truck.The irregs that the preload left on slide that I put in the back of the truck after my start time.Having to search for packages in the truck that the prelaod hid from me, causing me to touch boxes more then once when digging through load searching for the illusive package.&nbsp; Having to set up sections as I go causing me to once again move boxes.Dealing with ice.Dealing with snow.Dealing with freezing rain.Dealing with rain.Dealing with tons of people.Unloading air&#039;s at the air wall.Unloading internationals at the air wall.Unloading hazmats.Unloading NSL.Unloading NI3.Unloading high values.Being chased by dogs.Dodging traffic.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kingOFchester, post: 1095630, member: 11246"] Do you or have you been a driver? In life, what one may find difficult, someone else may find easy. My experience, preloaded 1.5 years and drove 4 years, driving is more physically demanding on MY body. As a preloader I loaded probably about 1000 packages a day. From the slide to no further then 40 feet and 5 feet at the least. So lets say that is an average of 25 feet, and I think I am being generous at that. So lets call that 25,000 feet lifting boxes. As a driver I average about 300 pieces on the routes that I cover. Use hand truck for maybe 20 pieces top on average. So 275 pieces have to make it from a truck to the front door of a customer. I am willing to be on average the doors are 150 feet plus away from truck. That comes 41,250 feet lifting boxes. As a driver we also have to contend with hills up driveways, upstairs, out the front of a truck, out the back of a truck. We do not have the luxury of walking straight from a slide/belt/boxline to the back of a shelf not contending with step[B]S[/B]. Some trucks do not have power steering and also an unnecessary high step. Don't get me started on the million of decisions we have to make on the fly everyday. Preload is no picnic. But I can tell you every preloader that I know that went from loading to driving are shocked how much more demanding driving is over preloading. This is my experience. What was not added to my day: Packages where the customer isn't home and I do not have the option to DR, need to be taken back to truck. The 100+ pieces that I pick up everyday need to be put in the truck. The irregs that the preload left on slide that I put in the back of the truck after my start time. Having to search for packages in the truck that the prelaod hid from me, causing me to touch boxes more then once when digging through load searching for the illusive package. Having to set up sections as I go causing me to once again move boxes. Dealing with ice. Dealing with snow. Dealing with freezing rain. Dealing with rain. Dealing with tons of people. Unloading air's at the air wall. Unloading internationals at the air wall. Unloading hazmats. Unloading NSL. Unloading NI3. Unloading high values. Being chased by dogs. Dodging traffic. [/QUOTE]

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