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<blockquote data-quote="AKCoverMan" data-source="post: 1115389" data-attributes="member: 17867"><p>I am the senior cover in a center where we put out about 35-38 routes a day from the building and another five from a "satellite" (a vacant lot next to a transmission center where we pay to park our package cars at night"). I know about 30ish of these well enough to get them done and have a good number of routes that I probably know nearly as well as the bid driver.</p><p></p><p>I have passed on a number of bids as I enjoy the variety..heavy city route one week and miles and miles of rural Alaska in a 4x4 the next. I once covered a city route in a warehouse district.. lots of bulk but lots of easy back up to the dock and hand packages to waiting hands stops.. for about six weeks straigt. I like this route and cover it a lot, it is held by our steward and he is pretty senior so between vacations and union time he is gone quite a bit and I enjoy covering it.. but after six weeks I was so anxious to do something else!</p><p></p><p>I average about 52-55 hours a week. I really want to keep it around 50 but it is what it is.. hey I'm getting paid! I am not a "runner". I do my best to get all the work done safely, make service, and get done as early as I can so I can go home. </p><p></p><p>In our center cover drivers are full time seniority drivers who just have not bid (or won a bid) on a route. I am guaranteed work everyday based on my seniority. We do not however get to bid on open routes, we are assigned by route knowledge. Obviously when you cover five routes in five days or get sent to help others after running a route close to scratch your over allowed is not on average what you would call "good". But oh, well. I get it done.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AKCoverMan, post: 1115389, member: 17867"] I am the senior cover in a center where we put out about 35-38 routes a day from the building and another five from a "satellite" (a vacant lot next to a transmission center where we pay to park our package cars at night"). I know about 30ish of these well enough to get them done and have a good number of routes that I probably know nearly as well as the bid driver. I have passed on a number of bids as I enjoy the variety..heavy city route one week and miles and miles of rural Alaska in a 4x4 the next. I once covered a city route in a warehouse district.. lots of bulk but lots of easy back up to the dock and hand packages to waiting hands stops.. for about six weeks straigt. I like this route and cover it a lot, it is held by our steward and he is pretty senior so between vacations and union time he is gone quite a bit and I enjoy covering it.. but after six weeks I was so anxious to do something else! I average about 52-55 hours a week. I really want to keep it around 50 but it is what it is.. hey I'm getting paid! I am not a "runner". I do my best to get all the work done safely, make service, and get done as early as I can so I can go home. In our center cover drivers are full time seniority drivers who just have not bid (or won a bid) on a route. I am guaranteed work everyday based on my seniority. We do not however get to bid on open routes, we are assigned by route knowledge. Obviously when you cover five routes in five days or get sent to help others after running a route close to scratch your over allowed is not on average what you would call "good". But oh, well. I get it done. [/QUOTE]
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