Traction boards

[Mooseknuckle]

There is a customer who parks one at the end of the 2 mile driveway for us to use so he can get his stuff. Its actually faster to use than driving the package car up the narrow, winding drive even in good weather.

And more fun I bet.

 

[ManInBrown]

I offered to buy the tires for my pc as well to the center manager.

JFC. Now I’ve heard it all. Amazing. Do you also show up 3 hours before the start time and load your truck for free?

 

[WTFm8]

We have something similar to these for most package cars but they’re chains instead of straps. I delivered in 7” the other week with 2 on outer wheels. Always make sure you don’t put through hole that valve stem is in or it’ll tear it out.

One of the mechanics ordered a bunch of cable chains like these a few months ago... came in and they’re 6-8” to short to fit hahaha.

 

[eats packages]

I was born with two hands, two feet, gloves, sturdy upper leather shoes, razors and deodorant. You must be very special to have had chains and traction boards included with yours.

Yes cosmo1 that is a recipe for disaster. I have asked management and the mech. I get nothing but blank looks from management and grief from the mechanic. I might be buying my own chains as well. I offered to buy the tires for my pc as well to the center manager.

 

[scooby0048]

And more fun I bet.

They are but not so much when you are dressed like a UPS guy and not an X games snowmobiler. The path for the snowmobile is a lot shorter than the driveway path so you only have to endure the cold and snow dusting for a short time.

 

[sikidiki]

Our center has a closet full of them, come grab some

 

[clean hairy]

Just deliver the way upstate did.
Use a dogsled or a hovercraft.
How else do you think he got everything delivered in 8 hours in the worst blizzards?

 

[Highonsitting]

Our mechanic bought us these...best damn stuck aids. X-TRA Heavy Duty | Traction Aids

 

[over9five]

One of the mechanics ordered a bunch of cable chains like these a few months ago... came in and they’re 6-8” to short to fit hahaha.
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We tried cable ones, but they sucked. The cable would just settle down into the treads.

 

[OrioN]

Ugh, my tires were close to bald during the last 3 snowstorm s...

I'm going to make these:

And put them under/ behind the passenger seat of my box truck

 

[Brownslave688]

Yes cosmo1 that is a recipe for disaster. I have asked management and the mech. I get nothing but blank looks from management and grief from the mechanic. I might be buying my own chains as well. I offered to buy the tires for my pc as well to the center manager.

Not your problem man. Why in the world would you spend your own money?

 

[LarryBird]

I do not use chains out of principle. I have a simple rule of thumb, if it's a place where chains were needed to reasonably make a delivery, that is not a delivery I should be attempting, and tomorrow is another day. If the area itself is so bad, that I need chains to get around on the roads everywhere on route. I shut it down, limp the truck back to the building, and punch the fuggout.

With the amount of driveways and properties I enter on my rural route, the usage of the chains dramatically increases my chance for a property damage accident, and it's not a chance I'm willing to take for a package. The only thing I'll go out of my way to deliver, within reason, is medicine, and not just any medication, but the next day or critical care meds, that I know are urgent. All other packages are treated like they're the nonsense, that they usually are, and EC'd for another time and/or place.

Snow days are the best sometimes - no pressure, late start and early quit, EC the chasers, pickups in trace, etc.

 

[Jones]

If I ever felt like I couldn't get down a road without putting chains on then I just didn't go down that road. One of my first winters in delivery I got a stuck a couple times trying to get stuff delivered out in the country and my supervisor told me the next time I got stuck he was going to charge me with an accident. I brought back a lot of packages but I never got stuck again.

 

[burrheadd]

*
You had your meds yet today Larry?

Calm down

 

[1989]

I don’t mind using the irons. What I hate is when I have to run them on the bare highway for a mile or more.

 

[LarryBird]

I don’t mind using the irons.

Sometimes it's simply the better decision for your game - a lot of guys can't set aside their ego and leave the driver in the bag, but if you can't hit it, gotta bust out them irons and play to your strengths. Pro tip.

190 yards straight down the fairway beats 250 yards and in the deep rough.

 

[KOG72]

I saw this about traction I was thinking something else like grabbing the head board,oh well wrong subject.

 

[Re-Raise]

My tires were completely bald about a month ago. After getting stuck on an ice cube, I asked the mechanic to put new drive tires on. The next day I had these. Made a world of difference.

 

[542thruNthru]

I saw this about traction I was thinking something else like grabbing the head board,oh well wrong subject.

That's leverage.

You want traction, take your socks off.