FrigidFTSup
Resident Suit
Drive your area this weekend and take notes. There should be a standard flow for the route and it takes a few days to get down.
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burrheadd
KING Of GIFS
Rack em
Made the Podium
It's called EDD, as in turn orion off.
Scottyhawk
What is it? A brown box. Duh
OMS can print you an on area map or go to your local gas station convenience store and pick up a map book
Sissy Brown Short Shorts
Well-Known Member
UPS supplies free maps with your route and where the delivery points are. Follow that. After you finish peak season you'll be lucky if you even drive before summer and that fancy watch will be a 600$ paperweight. I was in the same boat with area knowledge, it seemed impossible, but after a week I knew it by heart. If you need to check your phone to look up an address do it while you're walking a stop off. If you depend on tech you'll never learn for yourself and you won't be successful here.
silenze
Lunch is the best part of the day
You must be in a small center. The mechanics and PE all have their own bulk tugs. They repainted them and mounted a radio, speakers and a tool box. Its like a rolling jukebox.
Above10200
Well-Known Member
Google maps on my phone has got me close on a lot of rural areas! If you can read a map (a skill that has been lost) you should be able to figure it out. Just make you bring up the map before you loose reception!!!!
Tom MacDonald
Max E. Pads
Thanks for a legit helpful response man
soberups
Pees in the brown Koolaid
I am a 50 year old with 30 years in.
I am not a technophobe. I have an iphone with the Mapquest app and there have been many occasions where it has come in handy for work.
That being said, there is really no substitute for learning to read a map and figuring out how to intuitively find addresses based upon the number grid for your area. It will not help you in the long run to become overly reliant upon technology.
One of the drawbacks to cell phone maps is that the small size of the screen prevents you from "getting the big picture" of how the route is geographically set up.
Before you spend $600 on that watch, please try this: buy a map book, and make photocopies of the pages that pertain to your delivery area. Tape those pages together to make one big map. tape that map to your bulkhead door, or the roof above your seat, or clip it to the visor. Make notes, in pencil, of number breaks, where you start pickups, where your bulk stops are etc. This will really help you visualize the way you need to run the route. Go ahead and use your phone app to locate specific addresses if you need to, but go to the map first and try to figure out, on your own, where that address is based upon the number.
Technology can be a great tool, but it also makes a terrible crutch.
I am not a technophobe. I have an iphone with the Mapquest app and there have been many occasions where it has come in handy for work.
That being said, there is really no substitute for learning to read a map and figuring out how to intuitively find addresses based upon the number grid for your area. It will not help you in the long run to become overly reliant upon technology.
One of the drawbacks to cell phone maps is that the small size of the screen prevents you from "getting the big picture" of how the route is geographically set up.
Before you spend $600 on that watch, please try this: buy a map book, and make photocopies of the pages that pertain to your delivery area. Tape those pages together to make one big map. tape that map to your bulkhead door, or the roof above your seat, or clip it to the visor. Make notes, in pencil, of number breaks, where you start pickups, where your bulk stops are etc. This will really help you visualize the way you need to run the route. Go ahead and use your phone app to locate specific addresses if you need to, but go to the map first and try to figure out, on your own, where that address is based upon the number.
Technology can be a great tool, but it also makes a terrible crutch.
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soberups
Pees in the brown Koolaid
As a rural driver, one of my favorite features of the Mapquest app is the satellite view.
It has come in very handy in unfamiliar areas after dark when I am looking at 3 rusty, unmarked mailboxes and two driveways heading up into the woods. I can use the satellite photo to see where the houses are located, how long the driveways are and whether or not there is any place to turn around.
It has come in very handy in unfamiliar areas after dark when I am looking at 3 rusty, unmarked mailboxes and two driveways heading up into the woods. I can use the satellite photo to see where the houses are located, how long the driveways are and whether or not there is any place to turn around.
Big Package
Handler
Standard Flow is when there's 500% left on unload at 8am, and they crank it to max and add twice as many packages. Supes will lie to your face it's the same pace it's been. Same ones who say there's 150% left but they have no idea when the last 3 trailers are coming and lol air.
That's my understanding of "standard flow".
Gear
Parts on Order
That's what Im talking about. Riding around with the, "
you, Im a mechanic look on their faces." I would be cruising around in one of those for sure. Im feeling a little jelly of those guys. Makes my electric scooter idea kinda gay. I would think Im at a medium size center. Probably about 110-120 PCs out a day. Our PE is part time. Most of the time contractors are doing PE.
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pickup
Guest
Isn't a map a result of technology? Lewis and Clark would shame all you guys. "A map??? We didn't use those, we made them".
Big Package
Handler
Get a Map Book and go Old School See everything and get the whole layout
ORION is nothing but a 1 Billion dollar Tax Right Off
Nine5
Well-Known Member
Exactly why I shut it off as soon as I download edd
Nine5
Well-Known Member
Where are you my center doesn't offer maps with delivery points lmao just have to use a little common sense
