Folding your mirrors in.

[Just A UPS Guy]

I don't think he is kidding.
It's called "cumulative effects".
The soft tissue of any joint can withstand only a limited number of impacts or other physical trauma.

All true, key words being "impact" and "trauma."

 

[Just A UPS Guy]

try it 150 times a day for 30 years and tell me how your arm feels
You sound like a management boot licker

SMH

It feels like I take care of myself. You may just have not had any jobs that require actual physical labor, not your fault.

 

[ManInBrown]

Yeah, actually do it and readjust your mirrors every time. Request help at noon when you only have a dozen stops off and the problem will fix itself.

Ding ding ding. We have a winner.

 

[rod]

A good driver don't needs mirrors or brakes.

 

[trickpony1]

It feels like I take care of myself. You may just have not had any jobs that require actual physical labor, not your fault.

I'm guessing you're young, "bulletproof" and you lift.
Go ahead....you be you....it'll catch up to you eventually.
The sad part is it will be a complete surprise.

 

[Brownslave688]

A good driver don't needs mirrors or brakes.

Your wife is a good driver too huh

 

[rod]

Your wife is a good driver too huh

Totaled one.
Blew up another because the oil light came on and she didn't want to stop.
Had wrecks with at least 3 more. Make that 4 ---I remembered another one.


None of these were her fault mind you--just ask her.

 

[BrownStains]

I stopped pulling my mirror in years ago on main road stops .

 

[Just A UPS Guy]

I'm guessing you're young, "bulletproof" and you lift.
Go ahead....you be you....it'll catch up to you eventually.
The sad part is it will be a complete surprise.

Not young, not bulletproof. I don't "lift" but I do exercise, eat decently and hydrate. I've just had truly physical jobs that required too much from me to buy into someone whining about a sore arm from pulling a hand brake.

But I do think pulling in a mirror for the sake of pulling it in is just asinine.

 

[Spanky250]

A good driver don't needs mirrors or brakes.

Yeah, brakes only slow you down, right?

 

[rod]

Yeah, brakes only slow you down, right?

I had a center manager who always said if a driver was following the 5 seeing habits they wouldn't need brakes. That got a good laugh from the troops.

 

[allahuakbar]

Yeah, actually do it and readjust your mirrors every time. Request help at noon when you only have a dozen stops off and the problem will fix itself.

How long does it take you to adjust your mirrors? Are you *?

 

[JL 0513]

I wonder if it's going to actually take a driver's arm side swiped into a pancake to change this ridiculous method. I've been told a few times to do it and still won't. All this safety stuff they teach and they want you to blindly stick your arm out a window a foot into on coming traffic.

 

[PCM Troll]

I wonder if it's going to actually take a driver's arm side swiped into a pancake to change this ridiculous method. I've been told a few times to do it and still won't. All this safety stuff they teach and they want you to blindly stick your arm out a window a foot into on coming traffic.

Blindly? You mean you don't look into the mirror before folding it in? You don't look into the mirror when folding it out? Sounds like you are an accident waiting to happen. At my center, folding mirrors in is part of the routine. If management catches you not doing it, it's a write up or warning letter.

 

[MyTripisCut]

Blindly? You mean you don't look into the mirror before folding it in? You don't look into the mirror when folding it out? Sounds like you are an accident waiting to happen. At my center, folding mirrors in is part of the routine. If management catches you not doing it, it's a write up or warning letter.

How do you look into a mirror when folding it out? What do you see? Yourself? Not the dump truck about to rip your hand off.

 

[Wilson1397]

Blindly? You mean you don't look into the mirror before folding it in? You don't look into the mirror when folding it out? Sounds like you are an accident waiting to happen. At my center, folding mirrors in is part of the routine. If management catches you not doing it, it's a write up or warning letter.

How do you look I’m the mirror when folding it out?

 

[Wilson1397]

How do you look into a mirror when folding it out? What do you see? Yourself? Not the dump truck about to rip your hand off.

damn I must be getting slow

 

[NAHimGOOD]

This thread is going places

 

[Dumbo]

I pull the drivers side in if there is ever a question as to road width. Probably about 15 times a day.

 

[JoesUPSacct]

i work a lot in older small towns where what used to be single family residential has turned into business with no parking for us behind so i either have to block the single lane or hop the curb. either way, in that scenario i pull the mirror in. if i can't get my package car entirely out of the lane the mirror is coming in.