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At what point is it "too late" to be making deliveries?
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<blockquote data-quote="AKCoverMan" data-source="post: 772568" data-attributes="member: 17867"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">In our local (Alaska 959) our rider states that we will not deliver after 2130 “unless by mutual consent”. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px">As Upstate and others have pointed out, delivering in the dark in the winter is just the way it is. Here in Anchorage in December it is dark by 1600, and I don’t even want to think about what time it gets dark in thirty below Fairbanks in December.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The other day I was covering a route to a town 40 miles out of Anchorage; Palmer, Alaska. It was not too heavy but then they cut 29 very rural stops outside of Palmer to me as well. I think I might have been able to do it 12 hours but the add/cut move put those 29 stops in positions 1200-1299, and the only logical way to deliver these rural stops was after running the Palmer town route normally.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">The loader took it literally and when shelf one blew out loaded the stops on the floor in front of the bulkhead door. I lost time fixing this load and that put me in the dark for the last 15 or so rural stops. I had not yet started carrying my winter spotlights so finding houses was fun. I delivered until 2130, missed six rural stops (sheeted as MISSED) and came in at 13.4 paid hours. </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AKCoverMan, post: 772568, member: 17867"] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]In our local (Alaska 959) our rider states that we will not deliver after 2130 “unless by mutual consent”. [/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]As Upstate and others have pointed out, delivering in the dark in the winter is just the way it is. Here in Anchorage in December it is dark by 1600, and I don’t even want to think about what time it gets dark in thirty below Fairbanks in December.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]The other day I was covering a route to a town 40 miles out of Anchorage; Palmer, Alaska. It was not too heavy but then they cut 29 very rural stops outside of Palmer to me as well. I think I might have been able to do it 12 hours but the add/cut move put those 29 stops in positions 1200-1299, and the only logical way to deliver these rural stops was after running the Palmer town route normally.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]The loader took it literally and when shelf one blew out loaded the stops on the floor in front of the bulkhead door. I lost time fixing this load and that put me in the dark for the last 15 or so rural stops. I had not yet started carrying my winter spotlights so finding houses was fun. I delivered until 2130, missed six rural stops (sheeted as MISSED) and came in at 13.4 paid hours. [/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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