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<blockquote data-quote="Jack4343" data-source="post: 164028" data-attributes="member: 7328"><p>I've been a cover driver for 3 years now. I haven't been back in the hub since. A few tips: Learn routes. You will be thrown on them blind most if not all of the time. The more routes you know, the more valuable you are. I've learned almost half of the 60 routes in our center and I always work on full routes. Also, know the senority of your fellow cover drivers. Management will work cover drivers with less senority than you because they know a certain route and you don't. It's less of a worry for them. Hold them to the contract! Our center has almost 1/3 of all routes open with cover drivers filling the slots. 5 cover drivers made full time this month so they filled some of the positions. I made 54k last year as a driver. </p><p>When you first start and after you qualify, be prepared to show up and only run air or bulk stops off of other routes. You'll get the shaft as far as routes go at first but hang with it. It does get better and easier as your knowledge of routes improve. After a while, you will be able to run routes as fast and as well as the regular driver. You'll deal with customers all day asking "Where's (insert drivers name here)? Check the pet peeves thread for some colorful responses to that question. However, after you run routes for awhile, the customers will like you as well. I just ran a route for 4 months after the regular driver got promoted to feeder. After peak, he got sent back down to his old route and the customers all asked "Where's Jack?". I got a big kick out of that when he told me that. <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /> Also, you'll waste alot of time bringing packages to the front door of a stop only to find out that they go to the back door and vice versa. When you run pickups, print the drivers pick up log so you can see what time the regular driver made the pu's. That will save you many headaches as pu's are not always in order in your DIAD. I've learned that lesson the hard way several times. Good luck!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jack4343, post: 164028, member: 7328"] I've been a cover driver for 3 years now. I haven't been back in the hub since. A few tips: Learn routes. You will be thrown on them blind most if not all of the time. The more routes you know, the more valuable you are. I've learned almost half of the 60 routes in our center and I always work on full routes. Also, know the senority of your fellow cover drivers. Management will work cover drivers with less senority than you because they know a certain route and you don't. It's less of a worry for them. Hold them to the contract! Our center has almost 1/3 of all routes open with cover drivers filling the slots. 5 cover drivers made full time this month so they filled some of the positions. I made 54k last year as a driver. When you first start and after you qualify, be prepared to show up and only run air or bulk stops off of other routes. You'll get the shaft as far as routes go at first but hang with it. It does get better and easier as your knowledge of routes improve. After a while, you will be able to run routes as fast and as well as the regular driver. You'll deal with customers all day asking "Where's (insert drivers name here)? Check the pet peeves thread for some colorful responses to that question. However, after you run routes for awhile, the customers will like you as well. I just ran a route for 4 months after the regular driver got promoted to feeder. After peak, he got sent back down to his old route and the customers all asked "Where's Jack?". I got a big kick out of that when he told me that. :) Also, you'll waste alot of time bringing packages to the front door of a stop only to find out that they go to the back door and vice versa. When you run pickups, print the drivers pick up log so you can see what time the regular driver made the pu's. That will save you many headaches as pu's are not always in order in your DIAD. I've learned that lesson the hard way several times. Good luck! [/QUOTE]
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