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<blockquote data-quote="dilligaf" data-source="post: 319571" data-attributes="member: 11476"><p>I've been covering now for 2 years. There are many things that go hand in hand with covering. Know the area. You will have a much easier time, the better you know your area. Know the driver you are covering for. Talk to them. Pick their brains about their rtes. Even ask if it is ok to call them for more info if something comes up. ( Some drivers won't care, some will). And talk to the preloader (assuming that the same person has been loading the same truck for an extended amount of time). A good preloader is worth their weight in salt. They will know a lot of little tidbits, they pick them up from their regular driver. But above all and I do mean the number 1 thing is make an honest effort to deliver every pkg. This may sound redundant to say but I am going to anyway. We have a cover driver that constantly 'burns' stops on whatever route that he does. I mean alot of stops. He is starting to get a rep, abd it is not making any of the regular drivers happy. It will also catch up to you if you start doing that, just as it will with ours. In the mean time it is seriously pissing off the drivers. Aside from that most days I enjoy my job. Some days I hate. But it is all good. It is hard and frustrating at first but it gets easier with time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dilligaf, post: 319571, member: 11476"] I've been covering now for 2 years. There are many things that go hand in hand with covering. Know the area. You will have a much easier time, the better you know your area. Know the driver you are covering for. Talk to them. Pick their brains about their rtes. Even ask if it is ok to call them for more info if something comes up. ( Some drivers won't care, some will). And talk to the preloader (assuming that the same person has been loading the same truck for an extended amount of time). A good preloader is worth their weight in salt. They will know a lot of little tidbits, they pick them up from their regular driver. But above all and I do mean the number 1 thing is make an honest effort to deliver every pkg. This may sound redundant to say but I am going to anyway. We have a cover driver that constantly 'burns' stops on whatever route that he does. I mean alot of stops. He is starting to get a rep, abd it is not making any of the regular drivers happy. It will also catch up to you if you start doing that, just as it will with ours. In the mean time it is seriously pissing off the drivers. Aside from that most days I enjoy my job. Some days I hate. But it is all good. It is hard and frustrating at first but it gets easier with time. [/QUOTE]
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