Gee, back in the day, I knew what everybody drove, so if I saw them in town I could give them their package right there. I also knew every nook, cranny, alley, dirt road, two lane track and cow path in a 2 county area. If I didn't know where you lived in my delivery area, you didn't live there!!
To any one born after the Reagan years, Believe it or not the UPS man used to have a MAP {look it up on wlkepedia} WE used a map to gain area knowledge!! We memorized certain houses or business that constantly got a pkg to help learn street numbers. This may be hard to believe,but we used our skull.Information didn't pop up on a screen. We then got out of the Brownie walked at a brisk pace to the customers door,rang bell said hello UPS pkg from ,,, may I please have a signature,said thanks have a good day{christmas time we said thanks,Merry Christmas when it used to be O.K to do that.)We would write down on a time card amount of pkgs,stops,P/ups & pieces.ALL without a calculator..I know this seems drastic & primative but we all had to do this.To top it off ,we all played sports when we were kids out in the streets & parks till supper time with real kids.No XBOX baseball for us & No Madden football.... We also bent the brim of our baseball hats that actually fit our heads along with pants that fit our waist!!!
I follow trace like a good Teamster should.
Our DIADs contain the delivery information (EDD) which we download before leaving the bldg each day. This EDD is set up stop for stop and we simply follow that.
To get back to the bldg after we are done we simply turn the DIAD upside down and we reverse our route.
I fixed it for you, though I like and mostly abide by the idea of not breaking trace, I do see your point.I follow trace when I can but break trace if I need to. Work smarter, not harder. (Being a [-]good[/-] Teamster has nothing to do with it.)
I fixed it for you, though I like and mostly abide by the idea of not breaking trace, I do see your point.
I thought long and hard about what you said, and I apologize.Steve, do me a favor. Don't fix things for me. I wrote good Teamster because that is what I wanted to write and was in reference to what 'lil Joe Union wrote. I'm fairly certain I can put words together to form sentences and sentences together to form paragraphs and paragraphs to form pages which then form complete thoughts without your help. Thank you. Dave.
I thought long and hard about what you said, and I apologize.
Back in the "good old days" we had to rely on our brains and knowledge of the delivery area.
To any one born after the Reagan years, Believe it or not the UPS man used to have a MAP {look it up on wlkepedia} WE used a map to gain area knowledge!! We memorized certain houses or business that constantly got a pkg to help learn street numbers. This may be hard to believe,but we used our skull.Information didn't pop up on a screen. We then got out of the Brownie walked at a brisk pace to the customers door,rang bell said hello UPS pkg from ,,, may I please have a signature,said thanks have a good day{christmas time we said thanks,Merry Christmas when it used to be O.K to do that.)We would write down on a time card amount of pkgs,stops,P/ups & pieces.ALL without a calculator..I know this seems drastic & primative but we all had to do this.To top it off ,we all played sports when we were kids out in the streets & parks till supper time with real kids.No XBOX baseball for us & No Madden football.... We also bent the brim of our baseball hats that actually fit our heads along with pants that fit our waist!!!
There are definitely some posters on this thread that come in an hour early.Each night they give you exactly what your route will be, then you have to totally memorize your route the night before then come in 1 hour early to be tested. If you pass with a 95% or above you get to run the route that day. Once you pass a route test 3 consecutive times you don`t need to be tested on that route again.
You forgot about forming thousands of posts.Steve, do me a favor. Don't fix things for me. I wrote good Teamster because that is what I wanted to write and was in reference to what 'lil Joe Union wrote. I'm fairly certain I can put words together to form sentences and sentences together to form paragraphs and paragraphs to form pages which then form complete thoughts without your help. Thank you. Dave.
Maps?Thirty years ago, I was covering rural areas, and one day the center manager told me I would be going on a particularily remote route, in fact, it ran the most miles in the center. In those days, a sup never went with a cover driver to show them a route. I asked if he could get me a map of the area, and the center manager said sure, I'll go get you one. A couple minutes later he came back with a roadmap of the STATE! Thanks alot.