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<blockquote data-quote="hitsomebody" data-source="post: 167726" data-attributes="member: 848"><p>I don't know where they get the 8.50 an hour thing, I hurt my back last year, spent a month on light duty, got paid full driver rate. If they are forcing you to do some other job, you should be compensated at the highest rate for that job classification. The companys idea of light duty ended up putting me on the shelf for 3 months due to further aggravation of the injury. After trying to do light duty, I finally said enough, and had my doctor put me completely out of work. A company ordered MRI showed a very bad bulge in a disk in my low back. Spent the next two months going through some rather grueling work conditioning and physical therapy, the only bright spot was that my PT was such a cutie. Made the three hours a day rather tolerable. Anyway, don't let the "company line" of too many injuries initimidate you. In our line of work, these injuries are going to happen, whether you follow the methods or not. I'm ramblong here but the main cause of my injury was due to overdispatching for the most part. When my route was normal I'd go out with 110-130 stops a day, about 70% comm 30% res, about 250-275 pkgs, which was a 8.75 on paper. In the month leading up to my injury, i jumped to about 140 stops and almost 450 pkgs on the delivery side. I would have a top to bottom load of a 1000 cube 3/4 of the way full. Which by the way ended up being barely an 8 hr day. I would drop about 150 of those pkgs in the first 5 stops or so, then do the rest of my bulked out route. I will say that it was complete overwork on the part of the company that led to that injury. When I returned to duty, my route ended up being about 95 stops with 200 pkgs. I think even the company realized they can only push a person so far before they break.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hitsomebody, post: 167726, member: 848"] I don't know where they get the 8.50 an hour thing, I hurt my back last year, spent a month on light duty, got paid full driver rate. If they are forcing you to do some other job, you should be compensated at the highest rate for that job classification. The companys idea of light duty ended up putting me on the shelf for 3 months due to further aggravation of the injury. After trying to do light duty, I finally said enough, and had my doctor put me completely out of work. A company ordered MRI showed a very bad bulge in a disk in my low back. Spent the next two months going through some rather grueling work conditioning and physical therapy, the only bright spot was that my PT was such a cutie. Made the three hours a day rather tolerable. Anyway, don't let the "company line" of too many injuries initimidate you. In our line of work, these injuries are going to happen, whether you follow the methods or not. I'm ramblong here but the main cause of my injury was due to overdispatching for the most part. When my route was normal I'd go out with 110-130 stops a day, about 70% comm 30% res, about 250-275 pkgs, which was a 8.75 on paper. In the month leading up to my injury, i jumped to about 140 stops and almost 450 pkgs on the delivery side. I would have a top to bottom load of a 1000 cube 3/4 of the way full. Which by the way ended up being barely an 8 hr day. I would drop about 150 of those pkgs in the first 5 stops or so, then do the rest of my bulked out route. I will say that it was complete overwork on the part of the company that led to that injury. When I returned to duty, my route ended up being about 95 stops with 200 pkgs. I think even the company realized they can only push a person so far before they break. [/QUOTE]
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