Cover Drivers: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly!
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stevetheupsguy
sʇǝʌǝʇɥǝndsƃnʎ
OUCH! Take it easy, sistah. I wasn't trying to put pressure on you, was just telling it like I see/feel it, as usual. Didn't mean to make you feel bad about adjusting the mirrors, really, it's not that big of a deal. I was just stating, like the post above, that it's a pain in the butt. You do what you have to. Sorry for offending you with my opinion!
dilligaf
IN VINO VERITAS
Steve, I owe you an apology as well. It was not necessarily your post that was offensive although you did contribute to it. Intl was the one that said 'don't touch my mirrors'. It was his post that was offensive. So to you I apologize.
Intl, it's a good thing that I don't have to touch your mirrors b/c you would not like what I would do to them.
Intl, it's a good thing that I don't have to touch your mirrors b/c you would not like what I would do to them.
stevetheupsguy
sʇǝʌǝʇɥǝndsƃnʎ
We're cool, dilli, I'm still up for that moonshot.
That reminds me of a guy at my building. He got pissed that the driver next to his route was always done before him, so when he backed his car in, he'd "adjust" the other driver's mirrors. The way he did it made me think of trying to unscramble a rubix cube, LOL.
sexyupsman
Well-Known Member
Not that I work for UPS. I need to make it clear I have relations with UPS. My driver of course has cover drivers and some are quite messy! I had the great pleasure of watching one of his covers drop an entire bowl of some mess on the stairwell of the truck. The dude kicked some out and left the rest. He said the guys will get it later. Well he came back the next day and the stuff was still there. I told him my driver was very neat and clean so maybe he should clean up. The guy was a dick. The good news is that I have never seen this guy again.
soberups
Pees in the brown Koolaid
I swear to God that the guy who parks my truck at night must be a nearsighted dwarf with scoliosis. He moves the truck 50 ft. and needs to move all four mirrors, adjust the seat all the way up and in, and rotate the lumbar support inward. I spend 5 min of AM time trying to get everything back to normal.
trplnkl
555
More than once I have gotten into a truck with 5-6 feet clearance on both sides and the mirrors are pulled all the way in to the side of the truck. I never could figure that one out.lol
retired2000
Well-Known Member
i use to hate it when you would come back from vacation and find 10-15 call tags from the week before.
Hedley_Lamarr
Well-Known Member
I'm a cover driver, and I'm sitting at home, stupid friggen lay off...
some1else
Banned
have you ever worked carwash? if you are parking the cars do you fold the mirrors when you get out of each one; or wait till you pull the next one in, turn it off, fold the mirrors from the last one you parked, get back in, start it, then back it up, and repeat? lol when i did cw i folded every mirror that was going to have a truck parked beside it.
trplnkl
555
Well hell, as long as it's easier on the car parkers, I don't mind spending 15 minutes at the Mechanics shop getting my mirrors readjusted so I can see. That's cool.
JimJimmyJames
Big Time Feeder Driver
When I had my own route in package I didn't care if the cover burned my route to the ground. If somone could do the route faster than me, and take lunch, I would be impressed. Not taking a lunch is the only thing that would get me angry. As for management comparing me to the cover, go ahead. Though they never did compare me unfavorably, if they did, my answer to them would be to figure out a way to take me off the route and let them do it. I also kept a clean truck so I didn't like it when slobs used it, but as long as they didn't urinate in it I wouldn't make an issue of it.
As for being a spare in feeder, I heard little birds in my ear telling me I should slow down. This was by people I consider to be time stealers though. Feeder has enough down time in it when you are waiting on loads that to actually try to do the job slower is ridiculous.
When people accuse you of going too fast don't listen to them. Well, as long as you are following the methods. If your not, you are not being fair to the regular driver. In the end though, you feed your family, not them. We all need to do what we need to do to survive working here.
As for being a spare in feeder, I heard little birds in my ear telling me I should slow down. This was by people I consider to be time stealers though. Feeder has enough down time in it when you are waiting on loads that to actually try to do the job slower is ridiculous.
When people accuse you of going too fast don't listen to them. Well, as long as you are following the methods. If your not, you are not being fair to the regular driver. In the end though, you feed your family, not them. We all need to do what we need to do to survive working here.
dilligaf
IN VINO VERITAS
Or replaced because they are broke.
trplnkl
555
True, I have broken mirrors tying to adjust them. Luckily they are neither expensive nor hard to replace.
What'dyabringmetoday???
Well-Known Member
So have you trained "your" cover drivers to go in an hour early to sort the truck??
UPSNewbie
Well-Known Member
I think you're a little obsessed over Upstate.
Chill out with your man-crush. No one really cares about/pays attention to what you say.
What'dyabringmetoday???
Well-Known Member
I probably will not sleep tonight knowing this information. Guess I should get with the program and revolve everything around BrownCafe.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
Newbie, try to think of W as that last little bit that the toilet paper just won't remove no matter how hard you try.
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