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<blockquote data-quote="grgrcr88" data-source="post: 780303" data-attributes="member: 16611"><p>Man, that sounds exactly like my Tuesday. My nice new workhorse p10 was redtagged and replaced with an old ford non power steering gasser. Loader was on vacation and was dispatched with 20 more stops than normal, mostly bussinesses. The load was horrible! Front to back top to bottom in no particular order. Whatever came down the belt next was stuffed in the middle of the truck. 128 stops 450 packages 28 stops of air and leave building at 9:30! It was so bad I got to the first bulk stop, RDC and could not find a single package for them. I tried to take the attitude of I will do the best I can, but the more I did the more frustrated I became. I actually called my Sup and told him that if I did not get help I was considering rolling the truck off a cliff and never coming back!!(Jokingly of course) It was probably the worst day I have had in 15 years. Since I was a cover driver and ran my first route blind!! </p><p></p><p> Anyway, they had to bring in a driver from a suburb 20 miles away that had an all resi route to take 25 bussiness stops off. I had to take the delivery truck back to the center to trade for an empty since I have 40 daily pickups that average 250 pieces a day, and I had 3 shelves full of resis left. Finished the pickups went back for the delivery truck(my route is only 2 miles from the center) and started running them. Finally another driver was sent to help me with the resis I had left and he took about 30. They wanted to keep me under 9.5 as to not violate the 3rd time. got in at 9.3 hrs and only ran 85 of the original 128 stops. </p><p></p><p>Funny thing is, the next day was almost the same. Only had 11 businesses that needed covered that time though and they left me all the resis to run. Didn't have to go back to trade trucks as they had someone meet me before I started pickups this time!! </p><p></p><p>Finally got my workhorse back on Friday,(still over 9.5 though).Wow I forgot what it was like back in the day when all we had were those old Fords. I can't even imagine having to drive one of those every day now!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="grgrcr88, post: 780303, member: 16611"] Man, that sounds exactly like my Tuesday. My nice new workhorse p10 was redtagged and replaced with an old ford non power steering gasser. Loader was on vacation and was dispatched with 20 more stops than normal, mostly bussinesses. The load was horrible! Front to back top to bottom in no particular order. Whatever came down the belt next was stuffed in the middle of the truck. 128 stops 450 packages 28 stops of air and leave building at 9:30! It was so bad I got to the first bulk stop, RDC and could not find a single package for them. I tried to take the attitude of I will do the best I can, but the more I did the more frustrated I became. I actually called my Sup and told him that if I did not get help I was considering rolling the truck off a cliff and never coming back!!(Jokingly of course) It was probably the worst day I have had in 15 years. Since I was a cover driver and ran my first route blind!! Anyway, they had to bring in a driver from a suburb 20 miles away that had an all resi route to take 25 bussiness stops off. I had to take the delivery truck back to the center to trade for an empty since I have 40 daily pickups that average 250 pieces a day, and I had 3 shelves full of resis left. Finished the pickups went back for the delivery truck(my route is only 2 miles from the center) and started running them. Finally another driver was sent to help me with the resis I had left and he took about 30. They wanted to keep me under 9.5 as to not violate the 3rd time. got in at 9.3 hrs and only ran 85 of the original 128 stops. Funny thing is, the next day was almost the same. Only had 11 businesses that needed covered that time though and they left me all the resis to run. Didn't have to go back to trade trucks as they had someone meet me before I started pickups this time!! Finally got my workhorse back on Friday,(still over 9.5 though).Wow I forgot what it was like back in the day when all we had were those old Fords. I can't even imagine having to drive one of those every day now!! [/QUOTE]
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