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<blockquote data-quote="Toast" data-source="post: 3405691" data-attributes="member: 69322">I&#039;m a cover driver and have sometimes done a different route every day of the week so I don&#039;t always know the area I am running. Not knowing the area will slow you down but the biggest thing that will kill your time is looking for packages. You want to be able to stop, open bulkhead and be selecting packages within 8-10 seconds. You cut 30secs off each of your 115 stops and that&#039;s almost an hour saved. Once your air is off take it one section at a time and look over your truck to figure out where everything is. How many packages do you usually have? The route I qualified on was 130-150 stops 350-400 packages&nbsp; but the bulk of the packages were commercial that was done by 12 so by the afternoon I might have 80 stops left but if you only have 90 packages you can find stuff faster and make up any time you might have lost doing commercial stops.Yes you should be able to carry something over 70 without a hand cart but the real question is do you want to? Everyday for the next 30 years? Use it and save your body. Just figure out where to keep it in your truck so you can access it quickly and pulling it out does not slow you down.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Toast, post: 3405691, member: 69322"] I'm a cover driver and have sometimes done a different route every day of the week so I don't always know the area I am running. Not knowing the area will slow you down but the biggest thing that will kill your time is looking for packages. You want to be able to stop, open bulkhead and be selecting packages within 8-10 seconds. You cut 30secs off each of your 115 stops and that's almost an hour saved. Once your air is off take it one section at a time and look over your truck to figure out where everything is. How many packages do you usually have? The route I qualified on was 130-150 stops 350-400 packages but the bulk of the packages were commercial that was done by 12 so by the afternoon I might have 80 stops left but if you only have 90 packages you can find stuff faster and make up any time you might have lost doing commercial stops. Yes you should be able to carry something over 70 without a hand cart but the real question is do you want to? Everyday for the next 30 years? Use it and save your body. Just figure out where to keep it in your truck so you can access it quickly and pulling it out does not slow you down. [/QUOTE]

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