Fess up

[TooTechie]

How often do you forget to use your handbrake and flashers?

I know some guys on more rural roads where they don't think they'll be observed by a sup won't bother. I try to use them all the time but sometimes will be walking back to my truck and it won't be flashing, or I'll go to reach for the hand brake to release it and it will not be engaged.

 

[Bubblehead]

It is ingrained in my routine.
I won't say never, but I will say I never purposely fail to do either.

 

[QKRSTKR]

Flashes are one thing. Once a day maybe. There on when they need to be on especially busier streets. Anyone not using the parking brake all the time is nuts and rolling the dice. I have many times bumped the stick and accidentally put the truck on neutral when unloading packages into the cab. Hard to explain a rollaway. That's a cardinal sin in the contract.

 

[UPSGUY72]

Using your hand break and flasher should be a automatic habit not something you have to think of.

 

[bigblu 2 you]

every stop.habit.

 

[Indecisi0n]

I impress myself on how fast I can engage the parking brake, put on my flashers, unbuckle the seat belt and be in the back of the truck.

 

[yeldarb]

I am consistent with it at every stop. When I was observed for not honking at each stop, I started messing up from trying to focus on the honk. I do not understand the need to honk. Just another task to get observed not doing, I guess.

 

[TooTechie]

I honk when there might be a dog or if I'm in a place someone could back into me but I certainly dont always honk at every stop like I should.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Honk 2 houses before stop. Use hand brake at every stop. Use flashers as needed.

 

[KBlakk]

Flashes are one thing. Once a day maybe. There on when they need to be on especially busier streets. Anyone not using the parking brake all the time is nuts and rolling the dice. I have many times bumped the stick and accidentally put the truck on neutral when unloading packages into the cab. Hard to explain a rollaway. That's a cardinal sin in the contract.

I have never disciplined a driver for not honking if it was reasonable not to honk. But a rollaway where it is found the parking brake was not engaged... Good night Irene!

 

[superballs63]

Honk 2 houses before stop.

Why before the house and not AT the house? To let the neighbors know that someone else is getting a delivery?

 

[kingOFchester]

Honk 2 houses before stop. Use hand brake at every stop. Use flashers as needed.

Glad you don't deliver to the QVC queen two doors down from where I live. My SO would not be happy.

 

[yeldarb]

Why before the house and not AT the house? To let the neighbors know that someone else is getting a delivery?[/QUOTE]
I have brought that up. It is apparently to let any loose dogs know I am there, so the dog won't get startled and attack.

 

[Indecisi0n]

I do not honk.

 

[kingOFchester]

I do not honk.

There are laws in some communities that prohibit horn use unless in an emergency. I do not think delivering Tupperware of the month to Aunt Fanny constitutes and emergency.

Example: The entire state of Washington has a law that will fine drivers $124.00 for using a horn other then for emergencies.

 

[yeldarb]

I do not honk.

There are laws in some communities that prohibit horn use unless in an emergency. I do not think delivering Tupperware of the month to Aunt Fanny constitutes and emergency.

Example: The entire state of Washington has a law that will fine drivers $124.00 for using a horn other then for emergencies.

I wish our state would get that law.

 

[uber]

Handbrake never. Flashers once in a great while. I forget to pull in my mirror quite often though. I never honk. I'm there to deliver their packages not annoy them.

 

[rod]

Honk 2 houses before stop. Use hand brake at every stop. Use flashers as needed.

2 houses before? Are you serious? You must be smokin some wierd stuff if in the old "bubble of goodness" if that is what you do. Do you yell "UPS" before you even open the door at a business?--I bet you do.

 

[oldngray]

Always flashers and handbrake. Not always honk. In some areas people get mad if you honk too much, and in bad neighborhoods you are calling attention to that house and increasing likelihood of theft.

 

[jibbs]

UPS driver never honks at my house.

We always know when he's here, though. The second that PC starts making noise within 2-3 blocks of my house I gotta get the dogs out back or muzzle 'em up. I'm not sure what it is but it seems like every dog I've ever known has its own personal vendetta against every deliveryperson it's ever seen.