There are 3 things that every pkg. driver should have to do for at least one year to become a complete driver:
1. Run a satellite route.
2. Pick up from a UPS store.
3. Work out of a standard transmission 800 with the seat welded to the seat post and no
power steering.
Anyway.....desperately trying to get back to the topic of this thread.....
I can see where running a satellite route would give you a greater appreciation of walking in each day to a closed-out pkg car. I cannot imagine loading my own PC out of a TP-60 in the parking lot at Walmart in all types of weather only to have to load my pickups in the same trailer that night.
I pick up at a UPS store (sort of---it is an old MBE) daily. I make at least two pickups during the day there which seems to make it easier. There is another driver who is supposed to make a sweep through there but only does it when he feels like it--he hasn't felt like it in over a month and my center manager, steward, that driver and I are going to have a meeting this morning about this issue. We have two mutual pickups that he is supposed to sweep through and that I close out but those pickups would need to see a picture of him to know who he is as he hasn't been to either in over a month and, yes, he does close them out in his DIAD.
I have done #3 as well which is why I truly appreciate my new P-1000 with the power steering and low step.
I hope this thread stays on topic.