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<blockquote data-quote="Overpaid Union Thug" data-source="post: 4528680" data-attributes="member: 198">Once we started becoming a furniture delivery business a few years ago I decided to try out a commercial stop route. The best option in the last biannual bid was one of our mall routes. So I took it and love it so far.No more delivering furniture. No more Rouge Fitness. No more zigzagin around illegally parked Amazon and FedEx Ground vans in the streets. No more split level houses. No more annoying dogs.I walk more (allot) but it’s entirely flat. Most of my bulk stops are a breeze. There are heavy boxes (rare) but I can usually pull them in the special cart with one hand. But typically two fingers are enough.I’ve ran every type of route we have. Country routes are good for when we are closing in on retirement. Industrial routes often have plenty of over 70s. Dense resi routes have become furniture vans. I prefer “semi rural” routes as long as the first half are mostly commercial with no scheduled pickups. But, so far, I wish I had bid a mall route years ago.Taking a full lunch in the middle of the day and making pickups during the assigned times makes it virtually impossible for a dispatcher to add any more commercial stops. Also being on the 9.5 list has the same affect on their ability to add resi stops.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Overpaid Union Thug, post: 4528680, member: 198"] Once we started becoming a furniture delivery business a few years ago I decided to try out a commercial stop route. The best option in the last biannual bid was one of our mall routes. So I took it and love it so far. No more delivering furniture. No more Rouge Fitness. No more zigzagin around illegally parked Amazon and FedEx Ground vans in the streets. No more split level houses. No more annoying dogs. I walk more (allot) but it’s entirely flat. Most of my bulk stops are a breeze. There are heavy boxes (rare) but I can usually pull them in the special cart with one hand. But typically two fingers are enough. I’ve ran every type of route we have. Country routes are good for when we are closing in on retirement. Industrial routes often have plenty of over 70s. Dense resi routes have become furniture vans. I prefer “semi rural” routes as long as the first half are mostly commercial with no scheduled pickups. But, so far, I wish I had bid a mall route years ago. Taking a full lunch in the middle of the day and making pickups during the assigned times makes it virtually impossible for a dispatcher to add any more commercial stops. Also being on the 9.5 list has the same affect on their ability to add resi stops. [/QUOTE]

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