UPSer's, daylight until 5:27pm now

[Brownslave688]

I always loved when it changed from dark to daylight in the evening. Just a little over a month and it'll be dark after 7pm.

But nothing makes me madder than delivering in the dark after daylight savings. Like June and you're out past dark. That should never happen

 

[rod]

I used to love the dark- especially if it was lightly snowing. Not 8 or 9 o'clock dark but 5 to 7 dark. After dark if I went any slower I'd be going backwards. It made a difference knowing everybody, every home, kid names and their dogs names on my route.

 

[Ancient Alien]

How about me? How does my future look?

I have read your posts the last 2-years and you really crack me up. I think you're a wonderful guy, but I'm not a sweetheart of the rodeo. So as a friend. I think you're aces.

 

[Ancient Alien]

I used to love the dark- especially if it was lightly snowing. Not 8 or 9 o'clock dark but 5 to 7 dark. After dark if I went any slower I'd be going backwards. It made a difference knowing everybody, every home, kid names and their dogs names on my route.

Yes, I agree! Yet the poor troops today work after 8pm a lot times a year. Dark in our day was kinda fun back in the 80's & 90's.

 

[rod]

I have read your posts the last 2-years and you really crack me up. I think you're a wonderful guy, but I'm not a sweetheart if the rodeo. So as a friend. I think you're aces.

Just don't pick up the soap in front of Indie if you don't like surprises.

 

[rod]

Yes, I agree! Yet the poor troops today work after 8pm a lot times a year. Dark in our day was kinda fun back in the 80's & 90's.

This is why they must ban together and take back some control over their lives even if it means a strike. UPS has gone completely off its rocker after going public.

 

[sikidiki]

I was spoiled when i started ups, i was out until 9-10pm my first couple days and it still wasnt completely dark. Then peak came and it was dark at 4:45 and i still had so much left, I had to use a flashlight to confirm each address pretty much because i was new to every route they put me on. Now i know ill never be out until dark for the remainder of the year and my flashlight can retire.

 

[Catatonic]

I could tell you how tough we had it back in the old days but it would be unbelievable to the young whipper snappers today.

They work at UPS ... they are use to bald-faced lies!

 

[BakerMayfield2018]

How about me? How does my future look?

They work at UPS ... they are use to bald-faced lies!

 

[Wally]

I always loved when it changed from dark to daylight in the evening. Just a little over a month and it'll be dark after 7pm.

All depends on where you are. Drivers nearest the western edge of their respective time zones have it best, if you desire evening sunlight.

Today for example, Western IN sunset will be 6:12 PM, whereas New York City sunset occurs at 5:17 PM.

 

[Turdferguson]

All depends on where you are. Drivers nearest the western edge of their respective time zones have it best, if you desire evening sunlight.

Today for example, Western IN sunset will be 6:12 PM, whereas New York City sunset occurs at 5:17 PM.

Fascinating, do you have other examples of this ?

 

[upschuck]

All depends on where you are. Drivers nearest the western edge of their respective time zones have it best, if you desire evening sunlight.

Today for example, Western IN sunset will be 6:12 PM, whereas New York City sunset occurs at 5:17 PM.

Some parts, if not all, of Indiana didn't switch times, always stayed EST, so sometimes they were with the other eastern time zones, and sometimes with the central time zones.

 

[OrioN]

I could tell you how tough we had it back in the old days but it would be unbelievable to the young whipper snappers today.

Yup, for example, he had to deal with this:

Instead of today's LED flashlight that I got for under $4

 

[ManInBrown]

That’s gotta be wild if you live in one time zone, and work in another time zone. Right on the border of two time zones.

 

[Covemastah]

Yes, I agree! Yet the poor troops today work after 8pm a lot times a year. Dark in our day was kinda fun back in the 80's & 90's.

It was ??

 

[rod]

That’s gotta be wild if you live in one time zone, and work in another time zone. Right on the border of two time zones.

I had one small town that the telephone area code was split right down the middle of the Main Street. It was a long distance call to call across the street. This was pre-cell phone so it was a real problem. There was a lot of hollaring across the street.

 

[Covemastah]

Dark is mostly all you know when a feedah driver !!
It gets to you after a while !

 

[oldngray]

I had one small town that the telephone area code was split right down the middle of the Main Street. It was a long distance call to call across the street. This was pre-cell phone so it was a real problem. There was a lot of hollaring across the street.

I used to live right next to the county line. 100 yards away was long distance.

 

[hellfire]

I always loved when it changed from dark to daylight in the evening. Just a little over a month and it'll be dark after 7pm.

Man you just fart sunshine now don’t you...Get that crap outta here

 

[OrioN]

Man you just fart sunshine now don’t you...Get that crap outta here

I dunno, the OP has a point...

They just laid off my supplemental driver... I'm back to 160+ miles a day instead of 80-90 miles during peak season