I want my own route

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

We were coyboys/girls back then. I don't recall back too many times, averaging over 200+ stops a day, or delivering several 140lb Weber grills / air conditioners / furniture tho.

70 pound weight limit.

 

[Wally]

And when I do I'm gonna fail like a miserable pos!

Oh you thought you were gonna get a super hero? Let me kill the route then add another 30 stops because I'm a dude and I get it done..

Na man ... I'm gonna walk every damn box and take my lunch. And if you work me 13+ hours 3 days in a row I'm 9.5ing that bastard.

For now I'll have to keep working like a gosh darn horse. The light at the end of the tunnel is there. Not very bright but there.

Watcha' talkin' bout' Willis?

 

[1989]

70 pound weight limit.

75 lbs, not much of a big deal, 147 lbs.....hernia

 

[burrheadd]

70 pound weight limit.

Iam so old it was 50 lbs when I started

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Iam so old it was 50 lbs when I started

That was just a wee little bit before my time.

 

[MrFeeder]

Funny how the old timers think they were so badass.. dude you had like 60 stops. Things have changed.

I had this same conversation with another driver. He mentioned that he did package for over a decade whining how he went through aching body until he got to Feeder. I was like "Mr Sir, you older drivers had a 50 lb limit back in the days wtf are you crying about"?

 

[1989]

75 lbs, not much of a big deal, 147 lbs.....hernia

Plus, the old saying, size does matter. There was a time that every pkg fit out the front door

 

[1989]

Plus, the old saying, size does matter. There was a time that every pkg fit out the front door

How many p500s were there in 1995? How many do we have now?

 

[BigUnionGuy]

Iam so old it was 50 lbs when I started

Same here.

Plus, the old saying, size does matter. There was a time that every pkg fit out the front door

Back then.... the method was any more than 3 pkgs, you went out the rear door.

How many p500s were there in 1995? How many do we have now?

We only used p500's for extended country routes.

There is one left. They use it to shuttle "will calls" to the customer counter.

 

[Indecisi0n]

Things were different;


We didn't have a DIAD.

We didn't have EDD.

We wrote everything on paper. (even in the rain)

We didn't have phones with GPS.

We didn't have power steering.

We didn't have automatic transmissions.

We didn't get to wear shorts.

We collected cash on COD's.

We used keys on the bulk head and back doors.

We didn't have intermittent windshield wipers.

We didn't have low step trucks.

We used the heater to warm up a pen, so we could sheet write.

(and that is all it was good for)


Veterans.... chime in. I'm forgetting things.



-Bug-

Plus you guys had to feed the horse on your lunch break.

 

[Big Package]

Not to mention giving it a full release.. take the glue out of the package ya kno?

 

[BigUnionGuy]

Plus you guys had to feed the horse on your lunch break.

I'm busted.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

I'm busted.


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Remember the measuring chain? Couldn't be over 108

 

[BigUnionGuy]

Remember the measuring chain? Couldn't be over 108

Yep.

2 bells.... 108 and 130.

Girth and length.

 

[oldngray]

 

[john chesney]

Funny how the old timers think they were so badass.. dude you had like 60 stops. Things have changed.

Job is way harder now. It was always hard but you could get on a good easier route back in the day.Starting my 35 year (5 preload) no good routes anymore. If you been retired for more then 5 years you wouldn't recognize this place.

 

[oldngray]

Yep.

2 bells.... 108 and 130.

Girth and length.

length, width, and girth

 

[john chesney]

length, width, and girth

Those size limits kinda disappeared along with those chains. Haven't seen a chain it years lol

 

[BigUnionGuy]

length, width, and girth

That made me laugh.

You really were an old school pkg car driver.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Yep.

2 bells.... 108 and 130.

Girth and length.

Do you remember delivering all of those cases of diet Pepsi?