No I don't think that one day I was sick, did me in.. but they really threw it in my face that you can't do that during your 30 days. Though, as I mentioned, during this portion of my 'driving career' I was calling in every morning to see if they needed me. And they only needed me 3 out of 5 days a week for the first few weeks. Plus I showed up one morning, didn't call, and was sent home cause they didn't need me, and felt soo bad about not calling me... rightttt.
I had about 24 days in when it was done. Heres my 'excuse' like I said, long story, I dont want to really post all of it publically. But, I started out running a route (lets call it route A). Was with a supervisor for a few days, I was riding along learning. Driving some, with the sup. Then after about 4 or 5 days on that route. They decided to put me on a different route. So we started this process of training me on this route again. Lets call this route B.
Also during this time, I was going out with supervisors as a ride along, so they could work, and I get paid=no grievances. And when this happened, it was never the same route. Actually my very first day... I was called at about 1pm and rode with a supervisor delivering all kinds of packages all around the city. It wasn't a single route, it was a bunch of.. what do I wanna call it,, bulk packages that missed their intended trucks, I guess.
Any ways,,, Id say of the 24 days I had in... atleast 9 were spent riding along with supervisors. 4 on route A. so that leaves 11 days on route B. Id say about 4 with a supervisor training.
Again, I dont want to post the whole story, but that last day I was so pissed off with the whole situation I was glad to hear it was done.
But I can do it, I know exactly what to expect this time, what to do, what not to do, I just found this forum by chance and decided to find out what else I should know before I get back into it. Hell, I got $30 worth of UPS socks I need to use
(those are some over priced socks.... and cheap quality.)
They told me they would start me off "light" with about only a 80% truck. Righttt. You couldn't walk through the truck the first, and "lightest" day. And on route A, I had to tow a trailer (P90?) too! lol. That was interesting for a first route. Im not sure how packed your package cars are in your areas. But my car was 100% full, stacked to the ceiling, lol. Only a few rare mornings could I look through all the boxes and see the rear door. I also didn't understand how they expected me to do Route B in 9.5 when the Supervisor was training me on it (He drove, it was more like Christmas help) We were getting in about 2 hours over... And if any thing it seems to me like it would have taken longer if he was alone running it..
I don't recall SPORH? Whats that mean?
Anyways... like I mentioned, I think im wiser now, and just wanted to try to know as much as possible this time around. The part that really screwed me up was finding the damned packages.
One morning I couldn't find an air package before I left the hub. The loader couldn't find it. I BY CHANCE saw some red stick out out from under a package in the 8000 SECTION. That would have been by ass if I hadn't found it. One morning I had a late air.... had 5 air for one stop. 3 were in the 1000 section. Another on the floor below it. And the 5th, which was 2 minutes late because I couldn't locate it (I found it after I delivered those 4) was in the rear of the truck
But I saw my driving boss in the hub a few months back... He asked when I was coming back to driving. That can't be a bad sign.?
But finding packages are a pain... that is what cost me a lot of time. ANYWAYS... I ramble a lot too.. obviously. Thanks for all the info guys.