"How far do you walk...

[Scotsman]

..., in miles, if any or your regular daily route?.

I do about 150 stops/day, 90% residential. Say average 50 ft, rountrip walk from car to house and back. Hmmmm how many feet in a mile, blah blah, blah....

has anybody heard of any standard figures? just a thought....

 

[scratch]

50 feet round trip per stop? You are being too conservative on your distance estimates. I know routes vary a lot, but I doubt many of us deliver to houses sitting 25 feet from the street. I have two small subdivisions like that, its easy to knock out 25 stops per hour.

Using your route and distances, you would only walk 7,500 feet a day, or about 1.3 miles. I have a pace of about five feet, meaning that is how far two of my steps are on level ground, so this is about 1500 paces or 3000 steps all day.

My route usually has about 140 stops, but I probably average at least 100 feet at a stop. So my numbers would be twice of yours. 14,000 feet or 2.6 miles. My route would have 2800 paces a day, or 5600 steps. I am sure somebody from IE has some kind of national average.

 

[satellitedriver]

Does the distance increase by having to climb over gates and fences?
How about the zig-zag running from bad dogs.
I would love to have a porch only 25ft away to deliver a Select Comfort bed or a Bow Flex machine.
On average, I can park about 100ft away from the delivery point.
100 stops a day.
So, about 3 miles a day.

 

[Babagounj]

I drive right up to the front doors, drop everything there.
I consider dogs to be speed bumps.

 

[Jack4343]

I did a test on this a month or so ago. I attached a pedometer to my belt and began my route. It wasn't 100% accurate as it was a kid's pedometer that my daughter got from a box of cereal but I'm sure it was pretty close. I average around 130-140 stops with 75-85 being residential stops. I finished with over 14,200 steps for the day.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

14200 steps based on a 36" stride (Scratch--5' pace?) works out to just about 8 miles.

14200 * 3' = 42600' walked

42600/5280 = 8 miles

 

[Fnix]

I can tell you how much the average unloader/sorter lifts in a 4 hour period

Average weight of packages x Packages per shift then you convert it to tons:

15 lbs x 6000 packages = 90,000 lbs / 2,000 lbs = 45 tons

Do you know anyone else who lifts 45 tons per day 5 days a week?

 

[upsgrunt]

I did a test on this a month or so ago. I attached a pedometer to my belt and began my route. It wasn't 100% accurate as it was a kid's pedometer that my daughter got from a box of cereal but I'm sure it was pretty close. I average around 130-140 stops with 75-85 being residential stops. I finished with over 14,200 steps for the day.

I tried a pedometer once, but it can't be accurate because when your in the seat driving, the package car rides so rough that it gives you false measurements. In other words, each time the PC bounces it records a step even when you are sitting.

 

[barnyard]

I also used a pedometer. Wore it for about a month and it was pretty consistent at 19,500 steps a day.

TB

 

[rod]

Do you know anyone else who lifts 45 tons per day 5 days a week?

I did hear of a guy that loaded 16 tons--and what did he get-----another day older and deeper in debt.

 

[dilligaf]

Tennessee Ernie Ford

St Peter don't ya call me, I can't go
I sold my soul to the company store

 

[rod]

Tennessee Ernie Ford

St Peter don't ya call me, I can't go
I sold my soul to the company store

one fist of iron
one fist of steel
if the right one don't get ya
the left one will

 

[dilligaf]

Some people say a man is made outta mud
A poor man's made outta muscle and blood
Muscle and blood and skin and bones
A mind that's a-weak and a back that's strong

 

[rod]

Some people say a man is made outta mud
A poor man's made outta muscle and blood
Muscle and blood and skin and bones
A mind that's a-weak and a back that's strong

Well- I think we are ready to take our act on the road

 

[dilligaf]

It's one of my favorite songs.

 

[NaiveRapture]

I tried a pedometer once, but it can't be accurate because when your in the seat driving, the package car rides so rough that it gives you false measurements. In other words, each time the PC bounces it records a step even when you are sitting.

+1 I tried this as well and recorded about a hundred steps traveling not very far from one stop to the next, in about 3 or 4 hours I had racked up about 8000 steps, which I don't think is accurate. I didn't try it any more since I didn't see the point if it's not going to be accurate.

 

[cachsux]

1/4 mile from our parking spot (if I get a good one) to punch in,1/4 in walking during the day,1/4 back out to car.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

1/4 mile from our parking spot (if I get a good one) to punch in,1/4 in walking during the day,1/4 back out to car.

Dunkin Donuts has a feeder drive-thru?

 

[Cementups]

I used a pedometer once for about a week. I was saddened to find out that my wife, who sits at a desk answering phones all day, accumulated more steps than I do. I do a lot of drive up to the door stops.

 

[satellitedriver]

Some people say a man is made outta mud
A poor man's made outta muscle and blood
Muscle and blood and skin and bones
A mind that's a-weak and a back that's strong

Raised in a cane break
by an old momma lion.
Ain't no high toned woman
gonna make me walk the line.