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<blockquote data-quote="Undertow" data-source="post: 5641401" data-attributes="member: 4550">My bet is that you had it plenty rough in those days.&nbsp; It&#039;s certainly rough to start as a driver there now too, but it&#039;s just a different kind of rough just because things change plenty over a generation or more.It&#039;s true that the loads, especially if bricked out with big resi bulk pieces clogging the middle, can really kill a day right from the start especially if it happens during one of those stretches where the company insists on enforcing ORION compliance. But I also remember a time where drivers couldn&#039;t even wear shorts regardless whether the heat index was triple digits, didn&#039;t have defrosters strong enough to keep a tenth of the windshield clear in bad weather, and definitely didn&#039;t have the option sheeting a package as undeliverable due to emergency conditions.&nbsp; There once was an era at that place where if a driver brought stops back to the building, he was fired.I think there&#039;s plenty of us now that couldn&#039;t imagine being able to do it back then with trucks that took 2 minutes and 2 dozen backfires to reach speeds of 50mph while trying to record deliveries using pen and paper where the company didn&#039;t want the ball of the pen to ever leave the paper while you were writing.&nbsp; Chances are you were dealing with plenty of hassles, just a different set of them in a much different world than the current one.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Undertow, post: 5641401, member: 4550"] My bet is that you had it plenty rough in those days. It's certainly rough to start as a driver there now too, but it's just a different kind of rough just because things change plenty over a generation or more. It's true that the loads, especially if bricked out with big resi bulk pieces clogging the middle, can really kill a day right from the start especially if it happens during one of those stretches where the company insists on enforcing ORION compliance. But I also remember a time where drivers couldn't even wear shorts regardless whether the heat index was triple digits, didn't have defrosters strong enough to keep a tenth of the windshield clear in bad weather, and definitely didn't have the option sheeting a package as undeliverable due to emergency conditions. There once was an era at that place where if a driver brought stops back to the building, he was fired. I think there's plenty of us now that couldn't imagine being able to do it back then with trucks that took 2 minutes and 2 dozen backfires to reach speeds of 50mph while trying to record deliveries using pen and paper where the company didn't want the ball of the pen to ever leave the paper while you were writing. Chances are you were dealing with plenty of hassles, just a different set of them in a much different world than the current one. [/QUOTE]

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