so whats is considered alot of stops?
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Catatonic
Nine Lives
Exactomundo.
But if you really want a delivery stop number it is 360 with a helper and 192 by yourself.
Hoax is that the number you look for as average per car in center? Sounds about right for what I'm seeing on our daily reports and would explain why those of us with the bulk of our day in commercial areas are being pounded with an additional residential area to do in the dark each day. We even have helpers working in the dark this year, that didn't happen very much before.
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Catatonic
Nine Lives
You are probably in a center with Urban and Suburban stop density. These numbers would be representative or average for your center.
Rural and super rural and super-Urban areas will be much lower and closer to normal numbers.
Catatonic
Nine Lives
My kind of route!
I started swingin' after 21 days but I always enjoyed these type of routes. A driver went out on Med LOA and I ran it for a couple months and on that route it was about 43 stops and maybe 60 packages and lots of miles.
Re-Raise
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My route averages between 85 and 105 a day all year. I run about 210 miles a day and deliver about 250 pieces a day.
I cover 4 small towns and three counties, and I can't remember the last time I delivered to someone I didn't know. I have lived in the area my whole life and my kids attend the local school.
If I ever get stuck or have vehicle trouble it is a given I will know the next person to come by.
I cover 4 small towns and three counties, and I can't remember the last time I delivered to someone I didn't know. I have lived in the area my whole life and my kids attend the local school.
If I ever get stuck or have vehicle trouble it is a given I will know the next person to come by.
bottomups
Bad Moon Risen'
Most of the year it is SWEET! Takes me about 1 hour to pretrip and load the package car. Lots of windshield time. The only time it sucks is during snowstorms and having to drive in excess of 200 miles on bad roads. But that is what EC is for!
soberups
Pees in the brown Koolaid
I bought a heavy duty tow rope at a garage sale a few years back for $5. It lives in my package car. That tow rope has saved UPS well over $1,000 in towing bills over the years. All I ever have to do if I get stuck is to get out, hook one end of the rope onto the bumper, and then just stand there by the side of the road holding the other end in my hand. It is a virtual gurantee that the first person who drives by in any sort of a full-sized pickup or 4x4 will stop and pull me out of whatever I am stuck in. I have had people in economy cars call their friends who have 4x4's to come and tow me. Its almost like a challenge for them. They like to take pictures, and Im pretty sure that I am already on YouTube someplace.
Re-Raise
Well-Known Member
I started going over to my Dad's farm shed each year before the weather started to get bad here in the midwest and borrowed the best chain I could find off of one of the tractors to keep in my truck.
Last year for Christmas my folks said part of my gift was that I could just keep the chain. It was good for a laugh and I keep it in my truck all the time now.
Another good thing about growing up and living on my area is that I can get anyone's cell phone number in 2 calls. If you aren't in my phone I have the number of one of your friends or family.
3 done 3 to go
In control of own destiny
On a average day 100 stops on my area. They give me helper at 110. Last monday 145. Finished at 8:30-220 miles. They said a helper only helps 3 stops an hr more
I pick my helper up at 9:30 and keep him till I'm done. I don't care how many hours they say I can keep him. I'm not wasting 30 minutes of daylight just to drop him off.
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