Package car driver position

[Thebrownblob]

No tickee, no laundry

Best creases in town

 

[Thebrownblob]

Geezus guys were trying to make this place presentable, so someone will buy it.

 

[UnionStrong]

Geezus guys were trying to make this place presentable, so someone will buy it.

He’s got a better chance of becoming an astronaut anyway.

 

[Wally]

He started from a dead stop, what the hell happened?

Asian. Back to small sort.

 

[AirMailer]

I've gotta 2nd @542thruNthru on this one. The road test back when I took it was a Friday afternoon 5 minute drive around the block. Back up 10ft. and park on a hill...done. Granted the package car had power nothing, no backup camera and was a stick compared to these easy to drive package cars today. I hadn't ever really driven a stick prior to that, and didn't much worry about it knowing the test was easy. I ground the gears a few times during my ride and was on the road the following Monday. Here's the keys, here's a map, there's your package car for the day kid...go! But there's absolutely no question that they're harder on these kids today. Towards the end of my UPS days, I saw plenty of potential drivers washed out for not reciting the depth of knowledge questions word for word. Hell, I never learned that crap and drove 30yrs accident free.

Back in the day did you have to drive manual?

 

[oldngray]

Back in the day did you have to drive manual?

Back in the day they were all manuals

 

[Thebrownblob]

Back in the day did you have to drive manual?

Yes

 

[Thebrownblob]

Back in the day they were all manuals

And high steppers and no power steering

 

[34yearpackagehumper]

And high steppers and no power steering

Back in the 70's and probably most of the 80's that was all we had. Funny thing happened when we went on strike in 97. One of our on-car supes was sent out with one. He could barely get off the yard with it. He later told us the center manager made him take the run out with no stick shift training. Well by the end of the day he learned. That's what I call getting thrown in the fire .

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

And high steppers and no power steering

NO DIAD OR EDD

 

[Coldworld]

He went out the window! Lmao

Damn bus flipped

 

[Coldworld]

NO DIAD OR EDD

Don't bring up not having shorts as an option...you might blow some minds with that fun fact.

 

[Johney]

Don't bring up not having shorts as an option...you might blow some minds with that fun fact.

Or having to buy them.

 

[Coldworld]

Or having to buy them.

That's soooo ups.

 

[Well-Known Member]

NO DIAD OR EDD

 

[Been In Brown Too Long]

Back in the day did you have to drive manual?

Yes, they were all manuals. Funny thing, I learned to drive a manual on the job. My first go was as a utility driver just after Thanksgiving driving a Ryder box van much larger than a package car. On road says, "Need you to pick up all the Mail Boxes Etc in XXX town, you can drive a stick, right?" Of course, wanting the work, I lie and say "yes, of course." He hands me the keys, and off I go. Grinding the gears and stalling out repeatedly. Took me a while, but had it down pat by a few hours in... I think I was driving around 15 years before I set foot in an automatic. And yes, even in hot as ballz California, shorts were not allowed.

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Those are the newer 50 liners. The 50 liners I started on were even more basic than this.

 

[Just A UPS Guy]

shorts were not allowed.

I've never even ordered long pants here.

 

[10:30 resi]

I've never even ordered long pants here.

I ordered pants in July and I'm still waiting on them to show up

 

[UnionStrong]

I ordered pants in July and I'm still waiting on them to show up

Custom made crotch-less?

 

[oldngray]

Custom made crotch-less?

extra tight short shorts