Maximum walking distance?
- Thread starter Dr.Brownz
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UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Not enough to make a difference.
PT Car Washer
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I doubt if you will bonus by walking off long driveways. Or that it will reduce your stop count.Good thing we get paid by the hour and not by the delivery.
brownmonster
Man of Great Wisdom
You bonus by stuffing packages in the mailbox on long driveways.
BrownChoice
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Doing what he suggested, is most likely how "chicken legs" got his chicken legs.
Jackburton
Gone Fish'n
The maximum amount of walking required by you is only limited by how long you're on the clock.
BakerMayfield2018
Fight the power.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Is there no turn around near the house?
PT Car Washer
Well-Known Member
You couldn't back down it if there was no turn around?
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
Not with Telematics.
ManInBrown
Well-Known Member
Haha. I ran into Same situation here. Note in board to not leave at garage. Apparently another cover driver was leaving everything at the garage and customer got mad. 10 Pottery barn boxes. THE BIG ONES. I left 2 stacks 8 feet high at the front door. LOL
BakerMayfield2018
Fight the power.
No turn around. Was instructed per PCM not to back per center manager.
PT Car Washer
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I would suggest you work as directed.
BakerMayfield2018
Fight the power.
I did. Took me an hour and a half longer than Thursday with 3 less stops.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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If there is no turn around and the homeowner has not put a secured drop box at their end of their driveway you have no choice other than to walk it off.
BakerMayfield2018
Fight the power.
Exactly. That's what I did. I don't mind working by the methods. See drivers everyday doing things I would never do and cringe over. O well I do things the way they are suppose to be done. If I'm 2 hours overallow. Orwell I was safe and compliant.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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I would be lying if I said I never used a mailbox or bagged it and put it by the mailbox rather than walk off a really long driveway.
That isn't far at all compared to what I'm talking about. Just about every house I deliver to on my current route is at least that far from the road.
And it sounds like you all must really love you're jobs because the vet drivers in my center told me that you can give packages with extremely long un-drivable driveways to our clerk. All you have to do is say it's a safety hazard to leave the PC unattended
on the side of the road for that long. The area I'm talking about delivering is a long canyon with a steep road and there are very few spots get off the road. There are a few longer driveways I walk into but there are some I don't try anymore because of dogs. I'm not risking getting ambushed by 2 or 3 dogs half way up a 1/2 mile driveway. Remember the contract says the company agree's safety is of utmost importance.
Then again speaking to transfers that have come here it seems like we actually have a management team that doesn't try to
with us for no reason so maybe that is part of it...it seems like the drivers run everything here, our sups and dispatch just listen to what the vets say unless corporate gives them some specific retarded directive.Here is the thing though, the houses I'm talking about are 200 yards or more don't have reliable turn around (as in if the peoples cars are parked there you are screwed) and they have big dogs. Management already agreed with me that it's unsafe to go there, I told them if I have to walk then the time allowances on my route need to change and I need to lose 10-20 stops depending on which houses I have.
Now if they would fix the notes in the DIAD so cover drivers don't get into bad situations when they do my route. One house that is 800 feet away from the road has a note on it saying DEL TO HOUSE ONLY, because the lady complained once about a package left at the mailbox and our newbie clerk just agreed with no questions.. Same with all the emergency road conditions I've thrown out, they get put on my truck the next day with a note saying "ok now" because she just takes whatever the people say as true without the thought "they are in 4wd vehicles, they aren't driving a huge van and they don't care if the driver gets stuck/ect.."
gman042
Been around the block a few times
That is grass not lawn. There is a difference. I would have drove right on in there. Turned around on the grass at some convenient spot and drove right on out of there.
