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The Runner Gunner Lunch Skippers are HATING the new DOT lunch rule
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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1170585" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>There is a large equestrian facility on my route that boards horses, offers riding lessons, and has barrel-racing fields and pastures and covered riding arenas. Its situated on both sides of a gravel road and its a big place, maybe half a mile long.</p><p></p><p>The speed limit on the county road is 35 MPH but only an <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/censored2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="Censored2 :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" /> would drive through there that fast. In the summer you would kick up way too much dust and scare the hell out of the horses. I make it a point to roll through there at <strong>5MPH </strong>while politely waving at everyone<strong>. </strong>Sometimes there will be people actually riding horses <em>on</em> the road, because part of the training process for a young horse is to get it accustomed to auto traffic. When I see horses approaching, I pull over immediately and shut the motor<strong> off </strong>until it rider waves at me to proceed forward. Some of the horses are used to trucks and others arent so I do this just to be safe. Because of this courtesy, I am entitled to pull in there at any time whether I have a delivery or not to use the restroom and refill my water bottle, which comes in real handy in a rural area. Over the <em>years</em> that I have delivered that area, I would "guesstimate" that I have probably "lost" about an hour of UPS productivity time due to driving slow, shutting engine off etc.</p><p></p><p>A couple years ago one night during the winter, I was driving on that road maybe 5 mph faster than I should have been and a deer jumped in front of me. There was about 3" of snow on the ground with ice underneath, I overcorrected, and wound up putting the car in the ditch. No damage, but I was stuck and going nowhere. Had I called the center, it would have been <em>at least</em> 2 hours before they could have gotten a tow truck up there, and probably $200 or so in charges. So instead of calling...I walked 1/4 of a mile to the equestrian center and knocked on the owners door. She was in the middle of eating dinner in her flannel nightgown, but without hesitation she threw on a parka and a pair of muck boots and drove me back up to my package car in her 1-ton 4x4 pickup where she proceeded to pull me out of that ditch in less than a minute. She did this because, in <em>her </em>eyes, <u>I was the polite UPS guy who always waved and drove past her place every day at 5MPH to keep the dust down and avoid scaring her horses</u>. That hour or so of "wasted" time I racked up over the years driving so slow? It was <em>nothing</em> compared to how much money UPS saved that night in lost time and tow bills.</p><p></p><p>The moral to this story for you "runner-gunners" is this; Karma is a BITCH, but it up to you to decide whether she is <em>your</em> bitch or <em>someone elses</em>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1170585, member: 14668"] There is a large equestrian facility on my route that boards horses, offers riding lessons, and has barrel-racing fields and pastures and covered riding arenas. Its situated on both sides of a gravel road and its a big place, maybe half a mile long. The speed limit on the county road is 35 MPH but only an :censored: would drive through there that fast. In the summer you would kick up way too much dust and scare the hell out of the horses. I make it a point to roll through there at [B]5MPH [/B]while politely waving at everyone[B]. [/B]Sometimes there will be people actually riding horses [I]on[/I] the road, because part of the training process for a young horse is to get it accustomed to auto traffic. When I see horses approaching, I pull over immediately and shut the motor[B] off [/B]until it rider waves at me to proceed forward. Some of the horses are used to trucks and others arent so I do this just to be safe. Because of this courtesy, I am entitled to pull in there at any time whether I have a delivery or not to use the restroom and refill my water bottle, which comes in real handy in a rural area. Over the [I]years[/I] that I have delivered that area, I would "guesstimate" that I have probably "lost" about an hour of UPS productivity time due to driving slow, shutting engine off etc. A couple years ago one night during the winter, I was driving on that road maybe 5 mph faster than I should have been and a deer jumped in front of me. There was about 3" of snow on the ground with ice underneath, I overcorrected, and wound up putting the car in the ditch. No damage, but I was stuck and going nowhere. Had I called the center, it would have been [I]at least[/I] 2 hours before they could have gotten a tow truck up there, and probably $200 or so in charges. So instead of calling...I walked 1/4 of a mile to the equestrian center and knocked on the owners door. She was in the middle of eating dinner in her flannel nightgown, but without hesitation she threw on a parka and a pair of muck boots and drove me back up to my package car in her 1-ton 4x4 pickup where she proceeded to pull me out of that ditch in less than a minute. She did this because, in [I]her [/I]eyes, [U]I was the polite UPS guy who always waved and drove past her place every day at 5MPH to keep the dust down and avoid scaring her horses[/U]. That hour or so of "wasted" time I racked up over the years driving so slow? It was [I]nothing[/I] compared to how much money UPS saved that night in lost time and tow bills. The moral to this story for you "runner-gunners" is this; Karma is a BITCH, but it up to you to decide whether she is [I]your[/I] bitch or [I]someone elses[/I]. [/QUOTE]
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