What is considered bad weather???

[Cementups]

I’d say 100% humidity is probably the worst type of weather, no doubt. I will admit, I work in the southern part of the country, and boy is it hot at all times of the day and night.

100% humidity is rain. I would rather have rain than the 90% humidity you ar trying to describe. we get it here too.

 

[browniehound]

Here is Massachusetts we experience weather similar to southern Florida during late June, July, and August: temps in the mid 90's, extremly humidity and severe thunderstorms in late afternoon.

These storms really scare the crap out of me. They always happen after I have taken my lunch so I can't just stop for lunch usually.

Also, I feel extremly vulnerable in the package car. Its one BIG METAL BOX for heavens sake and I get scared.

I know your own car is a safe place, but not the UPS truck.

Is there a physicist around here? From what I understand you are safe in your car WITH THE WINDOWS ROLLED-not because of the rubber tires, this is a myth-but because the car becomes a solonoid (or something like a long, thin, closed piece of metal). Anyone with a science background confirm this?

The package car doesn't fit this description and that really worries me. To me, its just one huge piece of metal just waiting to be struck!

I don't care, if I feel my life is in danger I will seek shelter and message the center on my case!

 

[HelpUs]

We had a guy get flipped over by a tornado while in the cab of his package car. Our center manager, who lives about two miles from where it happened, couldn't even be bothered to call and check on him. That's the management team leader we have.

Link to a picture of his package car: http://www.jacksonsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080210/NEWS01/802100331

 

[Jim Kemp]

100% humidity is rain. I would rather have rain than the 90% humidity you ar trying to describe. we get it here too.

100% humidity is when the dew point and the temperature are the same. 50% humidity is when the dew point is half of the temperature and so on. I think you can have 100% humidity and not have rain. Its been a long time since I was in a High school science class (like 35 years, Man I am getting old) but I think I am correct.

 

[Babagounj]

Being a driver in Florida where we have massive amounts of rainfall most afternoons at this time of year. I was wondering what is considered unsafe working conditions to the point you can actually sit in the package car and watch it rain..
And I thought they were supposed to alert you if the weather is really bad. A few weeks ago I called in to the center because I was in one of the worst thunderstorms I had been in years.. They looked it up on the weather channel and said stay in the package car it is directly overhead.. not a problem I was not getting out with lighting hitting the ground one after another and hail striking banging like I was in a drum..
So get out if it is just pouring no lighting or sit it out..
I hope it is not too stupid of a question..

Two winters ago I was told to cover a route with a twilght sup because the regular driver had gotten ill. We left our building during a snow storm, it was white out conditions, we actually could not see the car in front of us. I drove while the sup stuck his head out the side door trying to judge the distance ahead. It took us 90 minutes to cover 3 miles.

 

[iowa boy]

We had a guy get flipped over by a tornado while in the cab of his package car. Our center manager, who lives about two miles from where it happened, couldn't even be bothered to call and check on him. That's the management team leader we have.

Link to a picture of his package car: http://www.jacksonsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080210/NEWS01/802100331

I'll just bet that he will get a talking to and a ride along for space and visibility and be charged with an avoidable accident. He should have seen and left himself a way out of a clearly avoidable accident with the tornado. (its a joke, don't get upset).

 

[HelpUs]

I'll just bet that he will get a talking to and a ride along for space and visibility and be charged with an avoidable accident. He should have seen and left himself a way out of a clearly avoidable accident with the tornado. (its a joke, don't get upset).

You don't know how close to the truth you are.

 

[rushfan]

When snow starts to accumulate on the road and I have to drop the last box off my set of triples. Dispatch says, "just keep driving "till it gets worse" and don't drop the trailer".

 

[bugman74]

where i deliver (a mall route) we have to park a block away from the mall inbetween two casinos which creates a lovely wind tunnel. The wind gets so bad in a storm that we have to wrap the carts with shrink wrap to keep the packages from flying off. One day the wind and rain were so bad that my helper's cart slid about five feet totaly loaded weighing about 300 lbs when a gust hit it. You have not experienced that kind of fun unless you have chased a NDA box down the street rocking about 20mph

 

[mattwtrs]

Bugman that's what we have to do at an extended center airport in the AM sometimes. A light box or a bag of smalls will fall of the rollers & a 20-30mph headwind will take it all the way across the tarmac to the airports perimeter fence when there is snow & ice present.