Well, twist my nipples & call me Dave... cover driver for 70 different routes & , it was better than driving to an area blind.
Yup, I'm living proof that I am one of them!
I still use the Garmin GPS unit with the turn by turns, butt
I don't follow it 100%. The map printout will quickly give me a big picture & I can load my own sequence of delivery. It greatly helps when the sun goes down & I can verify I'm on the correct dirt road...
Also, and HD driver went to ground opco for peak season. It was good $ & he liked Monday to Friday work week... but then the amount of oversized and overweight boxes got to him & it was no longer worth the $1000+ weekly pay for all that back breaking work. He came back to HD recently.
With HD, we do get an occasional oversized or heavyweight boxes that should have went to a p1000, but they know the space capacity of the delivery vehicles on each route so we won't usually leave stuff behind.
PS, I wish they finished the other building to become a collocation... I left 10 businesses that were closed on Saturday. If it was a collocation, I could've PiP them to a ground truck for Monday deliveries, while pilfering some of the residential stops in exchange to keep my stop count up.
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50 stops to go at 1500 today. Done by 1900.
In my region, there's less than 10 standalone HD terminals left. With plans to phase them out or turn them into colocations for that overlap, I guess
But at least I am a landlord that gets passive income no matter wut happens down the road.
Heck, I can become an Amazonian driver or GASP, and express driver if this mess will be ill-managed
Good luck with those p1000s that I see on my route that can't enter some driveways due to sheer size & weight. The ground drivers & some UPS drivers gets out an just leaves the boxes on the driveway or by the mailbox on the road.
UPS drivers gets paid hourly so I have no idea why they don't put em on a 2 wheeler hand truck& walk em in