Helpful Apps For Drivers

[JJinVA]

Pornhub mobile app. Helps pass the time while waiting for the air driver to backtrack because he forgot to meet and grab my outgoing.

You don't get paid by the hour? Who cares when they show?

Well I wouldnt except for the fact that I havent qualified yet for 22.4 and I messed up an EAM last peak and caught a warning letter one month into driving, so Im kinda trying to not friend that up again

 

[JJinVA]

My personal opinion on using map apps on the job....it’s fine as long as you’re pulled over and studying, not relying on it to get around. Trust me when I tell you, it’s hard to learn a route when you use navigation all day

I agree. It takes me 3 months to memorize a route because of how reliant Ive become on navigation. But the first route I was on I printed out a google map of the loop, studied it, and had it memorized in a month

 

[What'dyabringmetoday???]

Yeah wouldn't want new drivers to be advised of their rights. Better to let the company get free labor.

Grab a dictionary and look up sarcasm. Post had nothing to do with you sport.

 

[eats packages]

UPS Rising,

Just a map book, google maps is fine.
When it got dark as a driver helper with cover driver. I would use an app called OSM to display house addresses if I could not see it on the house itself and was on the doorstep, but %90 of the time even in pitch black dark it's better to use intuition and pick a house first and it's usually the right one, the app was just a fallback way of preventing misdeliveries.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

UPS Rising,

Just a map book, google maps is fine.
When it got dark as a driver helper with cover driver. I would use an app called OSM to display house addresses if I could not see it on the house itself and was on the doorstep, but %90 of the time even in pitch black dark it's better to use intuition and pick a house first and it's usually the right one, the app was just a fallback way of preventing misdeliveries.

...or you could just use a flashlight...

 

[eats packages]

...or you could just use a flashlight...

Trust me, you want to look at these houses as little as possible, for your own mental health.

 

[JJinVA]

...or you could just use a flashlight...

I have one of those mack daddy rechargable lights that also has a USB port to act as a back-up charger incase my powerbank runs out. But when I hit the switch on that thing its like a 5 million lumen (sarcasm) lights the whole house up. Had a helper with me last Christmas and said, "Hey man hit the light on that house over there", assuming he knew I meant to look for the address since we are delivering afterall... knucklehead hits the light on the bedroom window and Im thinking great hes gonna get us both shot lol

 

[OrioN]

Trust me, you want to look at these houses as little as possible, for your own mental health.
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Where is the friggin house# ??? I loathe people who have not put up a house# on or above the garage door on types like those homes.

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They'll probably have a stupid cursive number on their front porch after you walk up those steps to confirm the correct address.

Or worse:

 

[JJinVA]

Where is the friggin house# ??? I loathe people who have not put up a house# on or above the garage door on types like those homes.

They'll probably have a stupid cursive number on their front porch after you walk up those steps to confirm the correct address.

Or worse:

Its actually illegal (I assume everywhere but def here in VA) to not have house numbers that are easily visible from the street for fire or police reasons. They actually say we have to have contrasting numbers with background combo, but so many times I see brick mailboxes without numbers at all, or someone who painted the mailbox post and the numbers the exact same color like white and cant even read it in the day time let alone at night. I mostly rely on the people who are smart enough to number their houses correctly, count down or up to the house Im delivering too, and then use MapNav to help me get within +/- 1 house. Still a pain in the ass

 

[LeaveIt2Griever]

 

[Whither]

Its actually illegal (I assume everywhere but def here in VA) to not have house numbers that are easily visible from the street for fire or police reasons. They actually say we have to have contrasting numbers with background combo, but so many times I see brick mailboxes without numbers at all, or someone who painted the mailbox post and the numbers the exact same color like white and cant even read it in the day time let alone at night. I mostly rely on the people who are smart enough to number their houses correctly, count down or up to the house Im delivering too, and then use MapNav to help me get within +/- 1 house. Still a pain in the ass

Yup, but obviously not a high priority for enforcement. I've gotten at least 5 people to post legible house numbers over the past year on various routes. If you make contact, it never hurts to give a friendly nudge -- people want to get their smile*.

As far as I understand USPS has authority over issuing house numbers, and while you can usually infer well enough based on the pattern, there are discrepancies ... the more remote parts of my route have several. Evens/odds suddenly flipped, numbers out of sequence, etc. Mapnav would have me misdelivering a couple times a day haha. But I'm also not gonna bother trying to get the dispatcher to fix these and deskill the job further. The longer you cover routes, the more you start to understand the glitches, e.g., mapnav is useless in new subdivisions, hit and miss on rural stops, and never trust when it would lead you down a long driveway that you'll find somewhere to turn around without rutting up the grass.

I've never shied away from opening mailboxes if I can't verify an address -- usually, but not always, USPS has marked the house number inside the mailbox. Definitely a pain in the ass after dark, even with a good torch.

 

[Poop Head]

No house number? RTS-NSN

 

[Yeet]

Google Earth has saved me on more than one occasion. If dispatch sends you to a hub/center/CPU that you’ve never been before, you can pull up the address and get a pretty good look at what their yard looks like or where the truck entrances are.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

No house number? RTS-NSN

You can record it like that but it would not be sent back-----the PM clerk would call the consignee and get directions and/or a house number.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Google Earth has saved me on more than one occasion. If dispatch sends you to a hub/center/CPU that you’ve never been before, you can pull up the address and get a pretty good look at what their yard looks like or where the truck entrances are.

I was all for taking care of the customer but no way I would have ever done this.

 

[Yeet]

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I was all for taking care of the customer but no way I would have ever done this.

You’ve never been in a twin screw tractor with a 53’ trailer on your back. You can’t just turn down any street.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

You’ve never been in a twin screw tractor with a 53’ trailer on your back. You can’t just turn down any street.

 

[Yolo]

Mozzarella Sticks and Deep Fried Pickles.

 

[Air Recovery]

You’ve never been in a twin screw tractor with a 53’ trailer on your back. You can’t just turn down any street.

Ignore Upstate he is out of touch with the job

 

[Donnybowhunter]

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