UPS driver doing a route blind

[Bottom rung]

They won't let some guys go out blind here anymore.

 

[FilingBluesFL]

They won't let some guys go out blind here anymore.

Here, they only have certain people that they let out on routes blind.

They had one guy go out on three different routes blind consecutively. When I try to bump people on to routes I don't want to do, it's like the end of the world, "WELL HE DOESN'T KNOW THAT ROUTE, IT WILL BE A DISASTER!!!"

"Well, you had this other person out on 3 different routes blind, this person can do it, too."

They throw a huge hissy fit, but I usually get my way if I want it bad enough.

 

[Brownslave688]

Picture doing it with no PAL numbers or EDD.

And a map...

 

[brown bomber]

other than my first training route,..I learned it myself............suck it up

 

[jumpman23]

Just wondering if my center manager can send me out on a route blind if I don't want them to. I have done routes with one day of training, but I don't want to start doing them blind because I know that they will start doing that to me all the time.

If you blow them up deep into the night super late I bet they wont put you back on it again. Strategy son LIVE IT LEARN IT LIKE IT= YOU WIN THE GAME lol.

 

[542thruNthru]

I can't believe people actually learn every new route with someone on car with them. Only time I ever had someone with me was my first day going driving. I know 27 routes now. It not that hard and if you have some trouble and need some help let them know. My On-roads would laugh in your face if you demanded someone ride with you.

 

[CHALLY9TX]

Will do man. I've learned 5 routes since I went full time this summer. That will probly be 15 by this time next year lol

Only 5?

 

[robot]

Fun times! I remember my package car days fondly. Swing driving for 6 years. Learned every route in my center (around 30) and 2-3 in each of the other 7 centers. Only had a supe ride me with like 4 times

By the 3rd day you'll have the route down. You'll def remember when you go to the wrong docks/doors and remember the places that took you forever to find

 

[pickup]

Oh young padawan you will learn there is no such thing as doing a route blind. You are guided by something innate in each one of us that drives you forward.

I think I saw that Jim Casey quote on the way to a bathroom in some hub.

 

[joeboodog]

Usually having an on road "train" you on a route means the supe has been on it once or twice before. It's the blind leading the blind.

 

[Wally]

Just wondering if my center manager can send me out on a route blind if I don't want them to. I have done routes with one day of training, but I don't want to start doing them blind because I know that they will start doing that to me all the time.

 

[Wally]

 

[billerz]

The one thing I'm worried about really is missing business or air. The way the routes are optimized now, with Orion plus dispatch putting as many stops as they can, the bid drivers don't make it back until 730. I don't really have time to not find something.

 

[billerz]

I haven't refused to go out blind, and I probly won't, just made the post to see what you guys would say.

 

[billerz]

other than my first training route,..I learned it myself............suck it up

So let me guess you've been driving for what, like 20 years. You mean to say you never got a day of training after you made book? Not one?

 

[Coalminer2005]

Here, they only have certain people that they let out on routes blind.

They had one guy go out on three different routes blind consecutively. When I try to bump people on to routes I don't want to do, it's like the end of the world, "WELL HE DOESN'T KNOW THAT ROUTE, IT WILL BE A DISASTER!!!"

"Well, you had this other person out on 3 different routes blind, this person can do it, too."

They throw a huge hissy fit, but I usually get my way if I want it bad enough.

Those who can. Do. Those who can't. Don't. Management figures that out quickly and takes advantage of that. I covered 11 different routes in 6 months. Another driver learned 2 in a year.

 

[DumbTruckDriver]

Earlier this summer I had a two week stretch on ten different routes, with eight of those being blind. It's all about your attitude going into it. I take every new route as a challenge to be conquered.

 

[BostonBo]

The more you do it, the better you'll get at it.

 

[8000Shelf]

The one thing I'm worried about really is missing business or air. The way the routes are optimized now, with Orion plus dispatch putting as many stops as they can, the bid drivers don't make it back until 730. I don't really have time to not find something.

Just DR it if you get there after 5.

 

[jumpman23]

All you rookies may not have a problem with running routes in the blind or covering routes, but give it about 5 years and youll get real sick of it real quick trust me lol.