First day as a driver is in the bag. Man I'm beat...but no worse than when I double shift. I'm really glad I already know how to use the board, but there's a few neat tricks I learned on it today too. Tomorrow...time to get lost doing resi's!!! I'll be ok actually...lol...there's a few streets though that are in the tooly sticks.
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Jackburton
Gone Fish'n
Good thing you like it, only 29yrs 364days left to experience the joy.
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
I once thought this way. Then I got my own route and got bumped a year later. Now cover sucks. Nothing quite like knowing exactly where every address is. Suddenly night time delivery isn't so bad and slow.
Buck Fifty
Well-Known Member
Nothing like that new driver enthusiasm, but that will wear off soon enough. Welcome to the Club my brother.
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serenity now
Guest
a reply to you from another thread just yesterday: you'll be tired soon enough.........
Oh there's not much in the way of enthusiasm...just trying to stay as positive as possible. I'm more worried about delivery points. Some of these businesses have separate delivery and pickup points. And the first half of the resi's are a unknown to me. I know where to go just not where the streets actually are. I'll find them eventually. Being lost the first week IS going to suck...I know I'm going to make some mistakes. I know it's ok. I just want them minimized so I don't have to get help. Gotta succeed.
ORLY!?!
Master Loader
Once your cover, you will always be considered cover. You could go full time, but time and time again, someone will call out and you wil have to cover it while another cover, covers your route. I see it all the time here. They bump one guy over there because of a call out, just to send him elsewhere last moment notice.
Covers get paid better in time, spans of years. So, your management team will make you go on many routes for years to come, perhaps even most of your driving career. Some you find amazing, simple and maybe even fun! While others will take everything you have to make it.
Covers get paid better in time, spans of years. So, your management team will make you go on many routes for years to come, perhaps even most of your driving career. Some you find amazing, simple and maybe even fun! While others will take everything you have to make it.
brownmonster
Man of Great Wisdom
Or bid on the first route that becomes available.
TooTechie
Geek in Brown
Some in this thread have referred to going full time after you're a cover driver. Don't forget lots of places have regular full time cover drivers who are not casuals but regular full time drivers (me). We have about 150 full time drivers in my building and most drivers have to wait about 8-9 years here of driving cover full time to get their own route.
I'm a fulltime regular, just a cover driver. I'll get paid top driver wage in 3 years (hopefully!!! Gotta get in before this new contract...I have 2 months to make 30 days!!!) Tired as hell, tomorrow is going to be super challenging...no help from the on car. I get the feeling I'm going to have a romance with the gps on my phone...lol...at least for the resi's.
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