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<blockquote data-quote="PPH_over_9000" data-source="post: 4561886" data-attributes="member: 79761"><p>I'd have to get something like a FitBit to give an accurate estimate, but there's a <strong>whole lot</strong> of hiking up long, narrow driveways on some of the backroads I've been covering. Then you hit the neighborhoods and it's massive houses, insane driveways, >20 steps up the front porch, and the occasional gated home.</p><p></p><p>The walking doesn't really bother me, though. Well... most days. Tuesday damn near killed me with heat exhaustion, and I probably should've taken more than a single day off to recover. I'm still worried about being DQ'd for something like that, though, so I dragged my ass back to work as soon as I stopped cramping up.</p><p></p><p>As a preloader, I always pictured drivers just driving around dropping off packages. I never really thought about all the minutiae of the job, things like weather/temperature, customers that won't answer the door until you've already completed the stop as a non-delivery and are hopping back in the truck, how much time signature required'sand pick-ups can take, just how short of a leash management has you on, etc etc. I guess it goes back to that old adage that the grass is always greener on the other side, but with UPS the <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/censored2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="Censored2 :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" />'s just brown everywhere.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PPH_over_9000, post: 4561886, member: 79761"] I'd have to get something like a FitBit to give an accurate estimate, but there's a [B]whole lot[/B] of hiking up long, narrow driveways on some of the backroads I've been covering. Then you hit the neighborhoods and it's massive houses, insane driveways, >20 steps up the front porch, and the occasional gated home. The walking doesn't really bother me, though. Well... most days. Tuesday damn near killed me with heat exhaustion, and I probably should've taken more than a single day off to recover. I'm still worried about being DQ'd for something like that, though, so I dragged my ass back to work as soon as I stopped cramping up. As a preloader, I always pictured drivers just driving around dropping off packages. I never really thought about all the minutiae of the job, things like weather/temperature, customers that won't answer the door until you've already completed the stop as a non-delivery and are hopping back in the truck, how much time signature required'sand pick-ups can take, just how short of a leash management has you on, etc etc. I guess it goes back to that old adage that the grass is always greener on the other side, but with UPS the :censored:'s just brown everywhere. [/QUOTE]
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