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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1336171" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>February 3rd, 1989. I was a rookie with less than a year of driving experience, sent out cold on a mountainous rural route with no area knowledge in a blown-out P-600 with wooden shelves. We got hit with the coldest temps in history that day along with a foot of snow. Most of the stops in my truck were snowed in so I couldn't get rid of them but management forced me to take them out of the building anyway and fight the load all day. I had never driven in the snow and no one had ever taught me how to install tire chains. This was back when we were on paper, and it was so cold that the ink in our pens would freeze before we could write down the shipper number, so we had to keep spare pens in our hats to keep them warm. It was about 10:00 at night, I was lost in the dark out in the middle of nowhere and I got stuck in the snow. My chain came off and got wrapped up between the duallies and frozen into a tangled ball of ice and steel. I was so frustrated that tears started coming out of my eyes and they would run down my cheeks and freeze. This was before cell phones or diad communication, so I was really on my own. It took me over an hour on my back under the truck to get that chain untangled and back on, I didn't get back to the building until after midnight. The normal driver on that route went out with 75 stops, they gave me 120 and I wound up bringing about 100 of them back. I almost quit that night.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1336171, member: 14668"] February 3rd, 1989. I was a rookie with less than a year of driving experience, sent out cold on a mountainous rural route with no area knowledge in a blown-out P-600 with wooden shelves. We got hit with the coldest temps in history that day along with a foot of snow. Most of the stops in my truck were snowed in so I couldn't get rid of them but management forced me to take them out of the building anyway and fight the load all day. I had never driven in the snow and no one had ever taught me how to install tire chains. This was back when we were on paper, and it was so cold that the ink in our pens would freeze before we could write down the shipper number, so we had to keep spare pens in our hats to keep them warm. It was about 10:00 at night, I was lost in the dark out in the middle of nowhere and I got stuck in the snow. My chain came off and got wrapped up between the duallies and frozen into a tangled ball of ice and steel. I was so frustrated that tears started coming out of my eyes and they would run down my cheeks and freeze. This was before cell phones or diad communication, so I was really on my own. It took me over an hour on my back under the truck to get that chain untangled and back on, I didn't get back to the building until after midnight. The normal driver on that route went out with 75 stops, they gave me 120 and I wound up bringing about 100 of them back. I almost quit that night. [/QUOTE]
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