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<blockquote data-quote="Whither" data-source="post: 4528119" data-attributes="member: 76643">Everything depends on the route. With business routes I generally prefer industrial, because most days you can clear plenty of space before it&#039;s time to fill up the pkg car again with pickups. (Double-tripping in a bulk van for the second car is best of all ... but lately some of those routes have turned into 3 trip affairs due to exceptionally heavy volume ...) That&#039;s often not the case with the lighter commercial routes, where it&#039;s a boatload of 1-20 piece stops, mostly front door deliveries and many with terrible parking options. However. Some of our industrial routes have been going out with 50-60 resis on top of 80 businesses and 30-45 pickups. Would never bid those routes.My resi route has been averaging ~220 deliveries/70 miles since corona, as many as 270 and rarely below 200 stops ... talked with the seasonal (now a 22.4) who ran it during peak last year and said a heavy day was 200 stops lol ... but I sort it by 130 and it&#039;s smooth sailing. 5 pickup pieces is a heavy day. And after I complained about getting a different p700 every other day -- my steward told me to remind the dispatcher that company policy states that routes should keep the same equipment -- the route got a brand spankin new p800. Even came with a new tape gun lol. Dispatcher warned me, &quot;I&#039;m afraid it doesn&#039;t it have a DIAD cradle.&quot; I laughed and said, &quot;Oh no! I&#039;ll get lost!&quot; Cradle is such a distraction once you know a route.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Whither, post: 4528119, member: 76643"] Everything depends on the route. With business routes I generally prefer industrial, because most days you can clear plenty of space before it's time to fill up the pkg car again with pickups. (Double-tripping in a bulk van for the second car is best of all ... but lately some of those routes have turned into 3 trip affairs due to exceptionally heavy volume ...) That's often not the case with the lighter commercial routes, where it's a boatload of 1-20 piece stops, mostly front door deliveries and many with terrible parking options. However. Some of our industrial routes have been going out with 50-60 resis on top of 80 businesses and 30-45 pickups. Would never bid those routes. My resi route has been averaging ~220 deliveries/70 miles since corona, as many as 270 and rarely below 200 stops ... talked with the seasonal (now a 22.4) who ran it during peak last year and said a heavy day was 200 stops lol ... but I sort it by 130 and it's smooth sailing. 5 pickup pieces is a heavy day. And after I complained about getting a different p700 every other day -- my steward told me to remind the dispatcher that company policy states that routes should keep the same equipment -- the route got a brand spankin new p800. Even came with a new tape gun lol. Dispatcher warned me, "I'm afraid it doesn't it have a DIAD cradle." I laughed and said, "Oh no! I'll get lost!" Cradle is such a distraction once you know a route. [/QUOTE]

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