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I was having a bad day last winter and after my last del at 900 I made a snow angel in the person's yard
Winter Driving
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MethodsMan
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There's snow. Then, there's snow in the hills. Where I'm at its not like the midwest where everything is flat. Much trickier.
I'm not uncomfortable in it. I prefer my roads nice and dry and 70 degrees, but that's not always possible. I'm not a huge puss when it snows, nor am I one of the A-holes passing everybody on the highway. I get to where I'm going with me and my vehicle in the same shape as when I left.
I have no "hate" towards Brownslave at all. Dave rubs me the wrong way, and if he was in front of me, and his face was on fire, I wouldn't pee on him to help put it out.....that's how much I like that person
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
I didn't know the entire Midwest was flat. News to me.
brownmonster
Man of Great Wisdom
Ii amazes my how some of my worst driveways seem to only get packages on snow days or after everything is ice. All summer long, nothing.
Covemastah
Hoopah drives the boat Chief !!
Really !!!!
soberups
Pees in the brown Koolaid
To the OP;
Learn how to put your chains on properly. If you dont, they will come off and get wrapped up between your duallies and become a tangled, frozen ball of rusty iron and you will not enjoy crawling under there and digging them out.
Bring a tow strap. 99% of the time, all I have to do if I get stuck is get out, hook my tow strap to the bumper, and stand there and wait. The first guy that rolls by in a 4x4 will stop and pull me out, especially if his wife or girlfriend is in the truck with him.
Walk off the driveways. Usually, I dont have a problem getting up to the customers house; its when I have to stop and cut my wheels to back up and turn around that I run into problems getting stuck.
Know your snow. Dry, packed powder like they get in the Midwest is a lot easier to drive on than the heavy, slushy wet crap we get here in the Pacific Northwest. If it has a layer of ice underneath it, its even worse.
When in doubt, EC. Or, if your management wont allow EC, record as missed. Dont try to be a hero. You wont get anything delivered at all if you spend 4 hours in a ditch waiting for a tow truck. If your management chooses not to adjust the dispatch to account for weather conditions then any service failures are on them not you. The snow will melt long before the warning letter you get for an accident goes away.
Learn how to put your chains on properly. If you dont, they will come off and get wrapped up between your duallies and become a tangled, frozen ball of rusty iron and you will not enjoy crawling under there and digging them out.
Bring a tow strap. 99% of the time, all I have to do if I get stuck is get out, hook my tow strap to the bumper, and stand there and wait. The first guy that rolls by in a 4x4 will stop and pull me out, especially if his wife or girlfriend is in the truck with him.
Walk off the driveways. Usually, I dont have a problem getting up to the customers house; its when I have to stop and cut my wheels to back up and turn around that I run into problems getting stuck.
Know your snow. Dry, packed powder like they get in the Midwest is a lot easier to drive on than the heavy, slushy wet crap we get here in the Pacific Northwest. If it has a layer of ice underneath it, its even worse.
When in doubt, EC. Or, if your management wont allow EC, record as missed. Dont try to be a hero. You wont get anything delivered at all if you spend 4 hours in a ditch waiting for a tow truck. If your management chooses not to adjust the dispatch to account for weather conditions then any service failures are on them not you. The snow will melt long before the warning letter you get for an accident goes away.
Covemastah
Hoopah drives the boat Chief !!
That's o.k ,,,just don't sign it in Yellow !!!
MethodsMan
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I used to spend summers in St. Louis. I've been all around Misery. What you consider mountains are tiny hills where I am.
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
These two paragraphs are most important. Especially for a new cover
Driver. Most of the times I've been stuck its because I took down a long drive that was cleared at the road and then got to the house and had nowhere to turn around.
Room to turn around a small car and room to turn around a package car are totally different.
One thing I might add that I haven't seen yet. Go only where YOU are comfortable going. Many customers will call and complain that they have been getting around just fine. They can meet you for their package if that's the case.
Thanks BROWNSLAVE.
As a customer clerk i see a ton of ECs when it snows. the driver will usually say Future it for spring, cause thats when the road will thaw out.
Plows in my town seem to hit the roads once everything is already starting to melt away.
Less Runnin, More Stunnin
As a customer clerk i see a ton of ECs when it snows. the driver will usually say Future it for spring, cause thats when the road will thaw out.
Plows in my town seem to hit the roads once everything is already starting to melt away.
Less Runnin, More Stunnin
jumpman23
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