^^^^This.
Yup.
Might be crappy, but it's YOURS.Find aty route that no one wants and learn it, that way you'll be on the same route doing the same thing every day.
Even the worst routes can become more manageable as they become more predictable the more you run them. That's how I've been on the same route for 7 months.
My Center has bid coverage drivers. Drivers actually bid the position and are the only ones that can bid an open route by the day or week. Everyone else who do not have their own bid route are assigned open routes by area knowledge. Some higher seniority drivers actually prefer the job over having their own route for the variety and the chance to drive easier routes most days.
File a grievance over work as directed? I think that issue has already been settled.
Only three years in we have a alot of metro drivers that come over to country when a route opens up they usually take em and im not going to metro them boys work to damn hard.
You'll get there one day. You will get to a point where you won't even remember another route.
When I covered routes I always tried to get the ones where the driver was out hurt,usually wound up running it atleast six months or more.
Yup. You'll get your own route, and then you will have to be an a/h for a while. They'll be asking you to cover something every day. Just say no. They'll hate you for a while, but they'll get over it.
They can only pull you off one day just raise hell
Exactly. Most days I run the same route and I’m a cover in year three. Nobody wants to do it because it has a bunch of slow crap with dangerous driveways and a rough pickup route.
I can't remember the last time I covered a different route.
I covered one for 3 years. Before I signed my bid, there was another route open for several months after the driver had a heart attack. The route delivered to a college and I did not have the patience to do that college, so I did not bid it or even cover it. I pretty much regret that now. That would have been my retirement route.
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It amazes me these guys with 30+ years in, they bid the most commercial bulky routes with 40+ pickups lol ...
They are much better during peak and they don't get cut.
Always work as directed. And then file if your seniority has been violated.
