UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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....or they would let 2 sups ride in the cab or let you put pkgs in the cab during Peak or when you would drive while the helper was in the back sorting....
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....or they would let 2 sups ride in the cab or let you put pkgs in the cab during Peak or when you would drive while the helper was in the back sorting....
MassWineGuy
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Excellent idea. Cell phones go dead at all the “worst” times, don’t they? And suppose you are among the three people left who don’t have a cell phone? Does UPS require that you have one? FedEx doesn’t. How could any employer?
Don’t know about you folks, but at Express there is a standing policy of no backing. Of course, it gets followed probably like it does here. But if you hit something while backing, you get a letter, not a warning.
rod
Retired 22 years
When auto manufactures were ordered by the government to install seatbelts in every vehicle the trucking industry got an exemption. Those were the days. Flying down those washboard dirt roads with both doors wide open and no seatbelts----------------------and we survived.
Johney
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What helper was ever qualified to sort?ManInBrown
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He won’t last long “in your building” didn’t say he’d be out of a job.
Wally
BrownCafe Innovator & King of Puns
So message at every stop you have to back. Those stops you have to back many times, message at each and every back.
PT Car Washer
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Everyone I trained. Almost.
pkgdriver
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I may have been.... Was working at Dominos as one of my jobs along with school. Once he let me know his loop/area it was all downhill from there. I knew the area almost as well as him.
pkgdriver
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He wont last long can be taken both ways.
I would back as much as possible and call every time
Harley Rider
34 yrs & done!
I refused to own a cell phone when I was driving. Still don’t own one. They got so fed up not being able to get hold of me when they wanted to, they asked me to carry a center cell phone. Had a UPS cell phone the last two years I worked. Cell coverage was sketchy at best so I answered when I felt like it.
My route was almost completely rural. I backed up almost every stop. Had no choice. You drive up driveways 1/4 mile and longer, you have to go into reverse to come back out. I just laughed at em when they asked me to try and cut out my backing as much as possible.
rod
Retired 22 years
We did that all the time during peak. Throw the helper in the back of the truck and have him sort and enter your first dump stop in his DIAD while you were driving to your route.. Sometimes it looked like those scenes from Japan of them stuffing passengers into those commuter trains.
clean hairy
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Fixed
Air Recovery
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I did that for an apartment complex and the dispatcher was like "Dude, just back, I dont give a
" I was going to call him 4 times in a row so he caught on by the second call
Ghost in the Darkness
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This is exactly what current route is now. Its amazing so many people have long driveways with no place to turn around.
MECH-lift
Union Brother ✊🧔 RPCD
They instructed us to mailbox all long driveways to avoid customer interaction.
What'dyabringmetoday???
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Pretty sure you are confused. Definitely never ran. Maybe grab a Webster's and look up sarcasm. Let me know how you make out.You sound exactly like every single runner gunner I ever tried to smack some sense into. They would look at me in bewilderment when I would tell them what they need to do to handle these Jack
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MenInBrown
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Call and let ring once. There, I called and have proof.
didn’t say I needed to talk to em. Lol
BigMoney
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When i was a helper i sorted while we were driving in 1987
