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<blockquote data-quote="dmac1" data-source="post: 3461476" data-attributes="member: 60252">This brings back memories of being routed on hiking trails, or forest service roads that were washed out or closed or blocked, and driving 10 or more miles down an unnamed dirt road to be met by a locked gate at the property line maybe a mile from the house. It didn&#039;t help that management couldn&#039;t read maps and would swap packages between routes because a stop &#039;looked&#039; close on a map, even if it was a 40 mile drive out of the way, instead of 10 minutes if left on the right route. Mountain ridges didn&#039;t show up well on the computer screen.&nbsp;Took a while but finally knew every rock. Learned to load by area, so even if I needed to deviate from my normal sequence of areas, I knew approximately where every package was in my truck. There wasn&#039;t a single day that I followed the manifest in order. When they put a new driver on the route, he was fired in a month, then they divided the area among three contractors.The new manager had thought I was out lollygagging all day and intentionally stretching out my day to 11+ hours/300-400 miles, and constantly tried to add stops from an adjoining route that added 50+ miles, 2 hours, for maybe 5-6 stops on top of the 60 or so. Then he rode with me one day and never added another stop after we got back to the terminal at 8 pm. My refusal to take packages in someone else&#039;s contracted core zone was already well documented by then.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dmac1, post: 3461476, member: 60252"] This brings back memories of being routed on hiking trails, or forest service roads that were washed out or closed or blocked, and driving 10 or more miles down an unnamed dirt road to be met by a locked gate at the property line maybe a mile from the house. It didn't help that management couldn't read maps and would swap packages between routes because a stop 'looked' close on a map, even if it was a 40 mile drive out of the way, instead of 10 minutes if left on the right route. Mountain ridges didn't show up well on the computer screen. Took a while but finally knew every rock. Learned to load by area, so even if I needed to deviate from my normal sequence of areas, I knew approximately where every package was in my truck. There wasn't a single day that I followed the manifest in order. When they put a new driver on the route, he was fired in a month, then they divided the area among three contractors. The new manager had thought I was out lollygagging all day and intentionally stretching out my day to 11+ hours/300-400 miles, and constantly tried to add stops from an adjoining route that added 50+ miles, 2 hours, for maybe 5-6 stops on top of the 60 or so. Then he rode with me one day and never added another stop after we got back to the terminal at 8 pm. My refusal to take packages in someone else's contracted core zone was already well documented by then. [/QUOTE]

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