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<blockquote data-quote="Tony31yrs" data-source="post: 819412" data-attributes="member: 13245"><p>We used to bid every year and then it changed to every two years. The good thing about bidding every so often was that there could always be some total pain of a business moving onto a route and ruining it or IE making changes that screwed up the time allowance. </p><p>I stayed on my last two routes for ten years each. After that, the customers got too used to me and started to take advantage by asking me to wait, come back, not ready, etc. The thing that got me ticked off was that they would be ready with pickups for the runners that would fill in for me when I was off, but often couldn't do me a favor by being ready early when I needed to get done early. </p><p>Some senior drivers would stay on really hard routes because they were afraid to learn a new one. I felt sorry for some of the older guys that were run ragged or working on their own time because they couldn't do the route. Of course if they were too stupid to stay on it, that was their problem.If I had a route that you couldn't do while taking a lunch, I wouldn't stay on it long. After a month or so, you learn the best way to run a route and what shortcuts you can take.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tony31yrs, post: 819412, member: 13245"] We used to bid every year and then it changed to every two years. The good thing about bidding every so often was that there could always be some total pain of a business moving onto a route and ruining it or IE making changes that screwed up the time allowance. I stayed on my last two routes for ten years each. After that, the customers got too used to me and started to take advantage by asking me to wait, come back, not ready, etc. The thing that got me ticked off was that they would be ready with pickups for the runners that would fill in for me when I was off, but often couldn't do me a favor by being ready early when I needed to get done early. Some senior drivers would stay on really hard routes because they were afraid to learn a new one. I felt sorry for some of the older guys that were run ragged or working on their own time because they couldn't do the route. Of course if they were too stupid to stay on it, that was their problem.If I had a route that you couldn't do while taking a lunch, I wouldn't stay on it long. After a month or so, you learn the best way to run a route and what shortcuts you can take. [/QUOTE]
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