Unusual/crazy stuff while on the clock

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

I had a lady, while walking on the sidewalk, nail me in the nuts once. Never saw her before or after again, thank goodness.

My wife says, she is sorry! She thought it was me!...lol

 

[over9five]

Dogs loose? They were running down the highway, 2 of them almost got hit and there was almost an accident at 55MPH. The dogs saw my truck, ran up to me, and jumped in to get a cookie. Are you saying I should have just pushed them back out on the road and left?

Tree falling down--it took out the phone line and the power to the house. This was before cell phones. There was no other way out, I wasnt going anywhere until the tree got cut through, so it was either do it myself or wait for hours until her husband got home.

Big cow running at me? There was a major highway less than 1/4 of a mile behind me. A 1200 lb cow getting hit by a car at 55MPH is a potential fatality. I had the means to prevent that, so I did. 2 years later, the people who owned that cow wound up towing me out of a snowdrift, saving UPS hundreds of dollars in lost time and tow bills. Good karma saves $$ in the long run.

Cant get up the driveway, try again tomorrow? Most of the time I would agree, but this was NDA meds for a veteran. Plus I got to ride an ATV on the clock.

I wasn't trying to upset you, my friend. If you re-read my post, you'll see I congratulated you for going above and beyond.
It's just that IMO, that is not what the company pays me to do.

 

[cachsux]

Dogs loose? They were running down the highway, 2 of them almost got hit and there was almost an accident at 55MPH. The dogs saw my truck, ran up to me, and jumped in to get a cookie. Are you saying I should have just pushed them back out on the road and left?

Tree falling down--it took out the phone line and the power to the house. This was before cell phones. There was no other way out, I wasnt going anywhere until the tree got cut through, so it was either do it myself or wait for hours until her husband got home.

Big cow running at me? There was a major highway less than 1/4 of a mile behind me. A 1200 lb cow getting hit by a car at 55MPH is a potential fatality. I had the means to prevent that, so I did. 2 years later, the people who owned that cow wound up towing me out of a snowdrift, saving UPS hundreds of dollars in lost time and tow bills. Good karma saves $$ in the long run.

Cant get up the driveway, try again tomorrow? Most of the time I would agree, but this was NDA meds for a veteran. Plus I got to ride an ATV on the clock.

Good job on all except I might have waited, on the clock, until someone better experienced in tree removal would have tackled that task.

 

[cachsux]

I wasn't trying to upset you, my friend. If you re-read my post, you'll see I congratulated you for going above and beyond.
It's just that IMO, that is not what the company pays me to do.

Frakin Troll

 

[cosmo1]

What are some of the unusual/out of the ordinary/downright crazy things you've had to do while delivering? I thought of this yesterday while loading 3 dogs into the back of the truck that had gotten loose and were running on a highway. The dogs recognized me and came running up to the truck to get a biscuit, so I stopped and turned on the 4-ways and got em loaded up and off the road for a 3 mile drive back to their owner's house. In my 27 years this is probably the 7th or 8th time I have "delivered" dogs back home.

Way back, in my old 400 that I never closed the bulkhead door, I had to turn around and take a farmer's old yellow Lab about a mile back home.

I remember having NDA medications to deliver to a customer a few years back during a snowstorm. The customer lived up on a hill and even with chains on I simply could not get up there. They were adult sig required, so they couldnt be indirected. This was a rural area, and some of his neighbors were riding ATV's around in the snow, so when I explained the situation they offered to help. So... I hopped on the back of the ATV with the DIAD and the package under my coat and went for a 2 mile ride up the hill to the customers house.

Not medicine, but I once used my son's 4-wheeler to get to a couple stops out past his house in a bad snow storm.

There was another time out in the boonies during a windstorm when, as I was making a delivery, a couple of trees came down in the driveway behind me. They took out the power line and the phone line and blocked the driveway leaving me trapped. The lady of the house was there, so she grabbed a flashlight and let me into the garage so that I could get her husbands chain saw. I wound up spending about half an hour cutting up those trees with the chain saw and hooking a chain around the trunks so that she could drag em out of the way with their tractor.

I once used my tire chains to pull the top of a tree off the road to avoid a 35+ mile trip to get to a stop less than a mile down the road.

I also spent about 20 minutes one time using the package car to help "herd" a loose cow back into its pasture. It had gotten thru the fence and was running towards me, and we were less that 300 yards from a busy highway. There were 2 people trying to chase it on foot while a 3rd was running back to the farm to get a truck and trailer to load it into. There were fences on either side of this narrow one lane road, so every time the cow tried to get by me on one side I would back up and swing my tail into the fence to block it. This went on until its owners arrived with a truck and a trailer and a rope to lasso it. Had that 1200 lb cow gotten by me and onto the highway, someone could have run into it at 60 MPH and been killed so I think all the back first exceptions were probably worth it.....

You have me on this one. Although I told a few farmers over the years that their animals were running loose, I never herded one.

I loved my rural routes.

 

[Xexys]

I made a stop at the end of a long dirt driveway, been there many times before. At this particular time though both of their goats (Thelma and Louise) followed me out to the road (nearly 1/2 mile). As I started down the road they still were following me. I promptly stopped, loaded the goats onto the car, and drove them back to the home. The woman was distraught until she saw both her goats scamper out of my truck.

They both had pooped in the truck too. They must've liked me I guess.

 

[Re-Raise]

I have a guy on my route with a stupid goat too. Every time I stop there he climbs up on the back bumper of my package car and just stands there. Somebody seriously needs to take him to a mountain or something.

 

[cosmo1]

Don't get me started on goats. That's a whole 'nother thread!

 

[upschuck]

My wife says, she is sorry! She thought it was me!...lol

You are a lucky man.

 

[upschuck]

You deserved it, you pig!

Then it would have been more than once, if I were getting what I deserved. I'll try to be better.

 

[brownmonster]

Had a loose cow near the road last week. I kept driving.

 

[Packmule]

I've done the dog thing too. They were out by the highway a mile from the house and their house was my next stop anyway. Talk about PR. Apparently the invisible fence failed.
I applaud your service commitment. Just got a PCM today that FedEx is growing fast while we stagnate . Any wonder why?

 

[Indecisi0n]

Wow just read the whole post. Don't know how long ago some of this happened but other than the medication one. All the rest you're just begging for something to happen and you get fired.

Sad but true.

 

[bleedinbrown58]

Had a loose cow near the road last week. I kept driving.

Moo....It's what's for dinner! lol

 

[wayfair]

delivered to an apt office yesterday... guy had on his desktop pc, in the office... bear front . com

 

[Brownslave688]

I wasn't trying to upset you, my friend. If you re-read my post, you'll see I congratulated you for going above and beyond.
It's just that IMO, that is not what the company pays me to do.

I'm totally with you. I commend sober for being a decent human being. However it is my opinion he's just asking for trouble by doing things like this.

 

[104Feeder]

Full on 4 car Police escort from a mailbox place to the airport with my cargo of thirty five, 40lb NXDA packages of marijuana.

So picture you are sitting at an intersection, trying to get home, and here comes a cop car, siren screaming, into the intersection to block off traffic, then another doing 60, then me in a P1000 with flashers on and a big fat grin on my face, then two more cop cars. They did that all the way through the city and I got to the airport in record time.

Other than that I have put out three car fires.

 

[Signature Only]

I'm totally with you. I commend sober for being a decent human being. However it is my opinion he's just asking for trouble by doing things like this.

Speaking from experience. You can be terminated for anything.

But having said termination upheld at panel is totally different.

Nothing that Sober has done would ever rate a termination. And if some center manager did, it wouldn't stand at panel.

It's good to read panel and arbitration decisions. You get a good sense of what does and doesn't fly.

 

[brownrod]

Did a pickup that used old school, hand written pickup records. Immediately after walking out of the shop his goat walked up to me and ate the paperwork right out of my hands.

Decided to open the bulkhead door at a stop before I left... Their cat bolted out of my truck. Glad I did.

 

[Pickles]

Made out with a supervisor in a trailer I was loading.