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Pees in the brown Koolaid
What are some of the unusual/out of the ordinary/downright crazy things you've had to do while delivering? I thought of this yesterday while loading 3 dogs into the back of the truck that had gotten loose and were running on a highway. The dogs recognized me and came running up to the truck to get a biscuit, so I stopped and turned on the 4-ways and got em loaded up and off the road for a 3 mile drive back to their owner's house. In my 27 years this is probably the 7th or 8th time I have "delivered" dogs back home.
I remember having NDA medications to deliver to a customer a few years back during a snowstorm. The customer lived up on a hill and even with chains on I simply could not get up there. They were adult sig required, so they couldnt be indirected. This was a rural area, and some of his neighbors were riding ATV's around in the snow, so when I explained the situation they offered to help. So... I hopped on the back of the ATV with the DIAD and the package under my coat and went for a 2 mile ride up the hill to the customers house.
There was another time out in the boonies during a windstorm when, as I was making a delivery, a couple of trees came down in the driveway behind me. They took out the power line and the phone line and blocked the driveway leaving me trapped. The lady of the house was there, so she grabbed a flashlight and let me into the garage so that I could get her husbands chain saw. I wound up spending about half an hour cutting up those trees with the chain saw and hooking a chain around the trunks so that she could drag em out of the way with their tractor.
I also spent about 20 minutes one time using the package car to help "herd" a loose cow back into its pasture. It had gotten thru the fence and was running towards me, and we were less that 300 yards from a busy highway. There were 2 people trying to chase it on foot while a 3rd was running back to the farm to get a truck and trailer to load it into. There were fences on either side of this narrow one lane road, so every time the cow tried to get by me on one side I would back up and swing my tail into the fence to block it. This went on until its owners arrived with a truck and a trailer and a rope to lasso it. Had that 1200 lb cow gotten by me and onto the highway, someone could have run into it at 60 MPH and been killed so I think all the back first exceptions were probably worth it.....
I remember having NDA medications to deliver to a customer a few years back during a snowstorm. The customer lived up on a hill and even with chains on I simply could not get up there. They were adult sig required, so they couldnt be indirected. This was a rural area, and some of his neighbors were riding ATV's around in the snow, so when I explained the situation they offered to help. So... I hopped on the back of the ATV with the DIAD and the package under my coat and went for a 2 mile ride up the hill to the customers house.
There was another time out in the boonies during a windstorm when, as I was making a delivery, a couple of trees came down in the driveway behind me. They took out the power line and the phone line and blocked the driveway leaving me trapped. The lady of the house was there, so she grabbed a flashlight and let me into the garage so that I could get her husbands chain saw. I wound up spending about half an hour cutting up those trees with the chain saw and hooking a chain around the trunks so that she could drag em out of the way with their tractor.
I also spent about 20 minutes one time using the package car to help "herd" a loose cow back into its pasture. It had gotten thru the fence and was running towards me, and we were less that 300 yards from a busy highway. There were 2 people trying to chase it on foot while a 3rd was running back to the farm to get a truck and trailer to load it into. There were fences on either side of this narrow one lane road, so every time the cow tried to get by me on one side I would back up and swing my tail into the fence to block it. This went on until its owners arrived with a truck and a trailer and a rope to lasso it. Had that 1200 lb cow gotten by me and onto the highway, someone could have run into it at 60 MPH and been killed so I think all the back first exceptions were probably worth it.....
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