How did it go for you?

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[UnionStrong]

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[UnionStrong]

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Ok

 

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[Covemastah]

No, it was Schneider, and the driver was @UnionStrong

Couldn't been @UnionStrong , they took reverse out of his truck years ago

 

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I'm gonna go play with my bualz. Bye

 

[UnionStrong]

I'm gonna go play with my bualz. Bye
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[Zowert]

Won a bid and started driving in May 2017 at age 32. I got laid off multiple times in 2018 and early 2019. Probably spent a total of 6 or 7 months on unemployment. Then the pandemic hit and I’ve been working ever since. Most, if not all of the drivers hired during Covid have been laid off. Now we are understaffed and they don’t seem to mind paying out 9.5 grievances.

 

[scratch]

I bid straight onto a route in my Hub, I was never laid off as a driver. I was never a Swing Driver, I had four bid routes over my 37 years of driving. We used an Aero Survey map book, we would Xerox the route and tape the pages together. You quickly learned number breaks at city and county boundaries, and corner houses could be tricky too.

 

[What'dyabringmetoday???]

When I started running rural routes, you needed 2 different county maps.



Those days are gone.

Running? Lol!

 

[What'dyabringmetoday???]

Won a bid and started driving in May 2017 at age 32. I got laid off multiple times in 2018 and early 2019. Probably spent a total of 6 or 7 months on unemployment. Then the pandemic hit and I’ve been working ever since. Most, if not all of the drivers hired during Covid have been laid off. Now we are understaffed and they don’t seem to mind paying out 9.5 grievances.

Historic contract.

 

[oldngray]

I was never laid off either. I kept working on the route I trained on for several months then started covering a lot of other routes when the bid drivers were on vacation. Until I got my own bid route about 3 years later.

 

[BigUnionGuy]

I bid straight onto a route in my Hub, I was never laid off as a driver. I was never a Swing Driver, I had four bid routes over my 37 years of driving. We used an Aero Survey map book, we would Xerox the route and tape the pages together. You quickly learned number breaks at city and county boundaries, and corner houses could be tricky too.

I used to have a 3-ring binder that I made for all the routes I ran before I got my 1st bid route.

Took a map book to a print shop, made copies and had them enlarged. I would make notations

and even put down number breaks. When the men.... were men.

 

[UnionStrong]

I used to have a 3-ring binder that I made for all the routes I ran before I got my 1st bid route.

Took a map book to a print shop, made copies and had them enlarged. I would make notations

and even put down number breaks. When the men.... were men.

I had a whole state map book…..it was R.I. Lol

 

[UnionStrong]

I used to have a 3-ring binder that I made for all the routes I ran before I got my 1st bid route.

Took a map book to a print shop, made copies and had them enlarged. I would make notations

and even put down number breaks. When the men.... were men.

7 freaking years before I bid out of cover.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

I had a whole state map book…..it was R.I. Lol

Was it the size of a postage stamp?

 

[BigUnionGuy]

7 freaking years before I bid out of cover.

I bid the first route I had seniority to win. Nobody wanted it.

 

[UnionStrong]

Was it the size of a postage stamp?

Pretty much. But I covered areas with no street signs, Lol. I had to count the streets on the map. No 911 only pole numbers. But, we were men. Hoo rah!
I’m lucky I’m still half normal.