oldngray
nowhere special
Like the skunk scent you use when deer hunting. Only faintly smells like skunk.
Slow down for dust!
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Like the skunk scent you use when deer hunting. Only faintly smells like skunk.
Packmule
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That is precisely how I feel. And if the "choosers" actually paid what it costs to service them, how long would it take to see them having things routed to work locations and in-town family and friends???Most of the routes I run are mostly rural and I service a lot farmers and Amish people (Mennonites? I don'tknow) and those ones are always pleasant but there's still more than plenty that just seem to be living out there because they can. Never had anyone whine about dust but in the winter there's people who will cry when I don't come or do an indirect delivery (if they cry about that it gets EC'd till spring).
I feel like rural addresses should be able to be classified as "agricultural" or "non-agricultural", that way the real farms aren't paying out the ass for shipping but everyone else can pay their own surcharge instead of sharing it with rest. Everyone has the right to live wherever they want but they shouldn't expect it to come with same conveniences of living in town.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Were you a Clean Air Kid?
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Leave the gun,take the cannoli
Fresh air kid I did it.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Where did you go?
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Leave the gun,take the cannoli
To a camp in Maryland NY... I can't even believe I remember that...
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
I will have to Google that as I have no idea where it is.
giveme1time
Member
my bid route is super rural, gravel roads are the easiest way to make up time, never had anyone complain about dust not once, aside from on really hot dry days and it's a mutual complaint when I pull in their lane "it's dustier than hell today isn't it" or something like that, their actually kind of sympathetic when I open my bulkhead door and a plume of dust erupts I've gotten so many respirator jokes .
But if they were to ask me to slow down I'd say that as per ups policy I am to maintain the posted speed limit when possible and safe.
giveme1time
Member
my bid route is super rural, gravel roads are the easiest way to make up time, never had anyone complain about dust not once, aside from on really hot dry days and it's a mutual complaint when I pull in their lane "it's dustier than hell today isn't it" or something like that, their actually kind of sympathetic when I open my bulkhead door and a plume of dust erupts I've gotten so many respirator jokes .
But if they were to ask me to slow down I'd say that as per ups policy I am to maintain the posted speed limit when possible and safe.
oldngray
nowhere special
Gravel roads aren't bad unless they have washboards which can really suck.
DumbTruckDriver
Allergic to cardboard.
I hear complaints about the dust all the time. Have to remind these people that I am, in fact, driving the posted speed limit, and that I have six very large tires on the road.
Big Arrow Down...D
Leave the gun,take the cannoli
It was either that or a Cub Scout trip not sure which, but it was definitely Maryland NY...
giveme1time
Member
I hate the gravels with stop signs right by the truck entrance/exit of a dairy or hog confinement they Danm near shake my rear view monitor off the braket
rod
Retired 23 years
I used to love the day after "grader day" on the back roads. You could really get the dust flying. Back then any package that had been with you more than an hour was covered with a quarter inch of dust and your hands were black as coal-----and you were constantly picking buggers-----fun times.
Operational needs
Virescit Vulnere Virtus
oldngray
nowhere special
They aren't allowed to use old oil like they used to. Most alternatives are expensive so they mostly don't do anything for the dust.
Operational needs
Virescit Vulnere Virtus
Next time I see them putting it down I'll ask what it is. It almost looks like asphalt but it's not, because they're still gravel roads and it wears off eventually.
FrigidFTSup
Resident Suit
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
It's down by Oneonta.
