Why would anybody take it upon themselves to buy, print or solicit a government agency for a map to use while delivering for UPS?
It is my position that this "tool" for the job should be provided by the company and failure to do so on their part implies a significant cost in regards to my hours worked.
That being said, I am reminded of a story a few years back when my On-car supervisor took exception to me not delivering a misload from the day before that turned out to be just 4 miles from my last stop.
When I explained to him that my name wasn't Rand McNally and that I subsequently didn't have every street in the city memorized, nor did I need to as a twenty year bid driver on the same route.
He proceeded with a dissertation about how many book maps that were bought by the company but never returned and that he wasn't buying any more and informed me that it was something I should possess on my own as a professional driver.
I laughed at him and went about my day and didn't give it a second thought until I got home and found the new telephone books on my front porch.
It was then that I remembered that there were detailed city street maps in the back of the Yellow Pages, which I carefully removed to bring with me the following work day.
Before the PCM that morning, I walked into this On-car's office holding my "new" book map high for him to see and explained to him how I came by it for free and that it would be worth 10's of thousands of dollars before my career at UPS concluded.
I informed him that I was available all day every day to shuttle or deliver any and all misloads for our center with my new "tool for the job" and that if I heard any stories of him doing this work that I would be grieving it for double time.
Oddly enough, I was never asked to deliver any more misloads?
