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how long did it take you to get a route?
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<blockquote data-quote="rod" data-source="post: 956924" data-attributes="member: 5382"><p>I worked about 2 and a half months p/t then went full time driving a shuttle truck (P-100 flat top Ford Econoline) to North Dakota when they started UPS service. I made many 165 mile trips one way with nothing on board except me (and sometimes my wife). It was a night job which I hated but it was a quick way to become full time.. I then bid onto a town delivery route. I worked the town route for about 2 years then a stupid 10 year driver quit to go sell bathtub liners so I bid onto his half rural and half small town route that I ran for the rest of my 30 years (same little town). When I retired I knew every grownup, kid, grandkid and dogs name in that town. I could deliver it blindfolded and there was a few time after a particularly rough night out that I pretty much did that. This was back in the golden age of UPS when we were expanding to the states west of the Mississippi. (not counting Ca.,Wa., and Or.--we were already there) The last state on board (other than Ak and HI.) was Texas if I remember right.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rod, post: 956924, member: 5382"] I worked about 2 and a half months p/t then went full time driving a shuttle truck (P-100 flat top Ford Econoline) to North Dakota when they started UPS service. I made many 165 mile trips one way with nothing on board except me (and sometimes my wife). It was a night job which I hated but it was a quick way to become full time.. I then bid onto a town delivery route. I worked the town route for about 2 years then a stupid 10 year driver quit to go sell bathtub liners so I bid onto his half rural and half small town route that I ran for the rest of my 30 years (same little town). When I retired I knew every grownup, kid, grandkid and dogs name in that town. I could deliver it blindfolded and there was a few time after a particularly rough night out that I pretty much did that. This was back in the golden age of UPS when we were expanding to the states west of the Mississippi. (not counting Ca.,Wa., and Or.--we were already there) The last state on board (other than Ak and HI.) was Texas if I remember right. [/QUOTE]
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