Whats the "lightest" route in your center?

[SmithBarney]

How did you like the F350? We had one a few years ago and the drivers hated it. Couldn't figure out why.

Funny I remember it on the drivers side, maybe it was..maybe it wasn't who knows
but there you have it. So the shelf is tilted toward the front of the vehicle, each time you brake, the packages will in theory slide forward on the shelf and be right there behind the door when you open it. BIgger boxes leave near the rear door so you don't climb in.

 

[UPSER110]

I covered a route last week. 200 miles, 41 stops, 61 pieces, 0 pick ups, and punched out a 6. I felt like all I did was drive and get a tan on my left arm.

 

[SmithBarney]

I covered a route last week. 200 miles, 41 stops, 61 pieces, 0 pick ups, and punched out a 6. I felt like all I did was drive and get a tan on my left arm.

Always fun when you have so much time between stops you forget where you were going.

 

[wayfair]

I loved rural routes during rainstorms!!! keeping all the dust down!

 

[JL 0513]

It seems like many of you posting live away from the coasts judging by the mileage being done.

Those figures are all foreign to me. I'm on the east coast of MA so it's densely populated almost everywhere.

Our two furthest routes from our center is about 18 miles away in opposite directions. Our only country route does about 115 miles (15 mi from center) and 135 stops for a 9 hr day. That's our most spread out route. Other suburban town routes do 150 stops / 5-10 p/u's / 75 mi a day. Then a bunch of high volume city routes and a mall route.

 

[FrigidFTSup]

It seems like many of you posting live away from the coasts judging by the mileage being done.

Those figures are all foreign to me. I'm on the east coast of MA so it's densely populated almost everywhere.

Our two furthest routes from our center is about 18 miles away in opposite directions. Our only country route does about 115 miles (15 mi from center) and 135 stops for a 9 hr day. That's our most spread out route. Other suburban town routes do 150 stops / 5-10 p/u's / 75 mi a day. Then a bunch of high volume city routes and a mall route.

I'd have to check, but I bet you 40% of our drivers have to drive more than 18 miles to get on area. We have 2 guys who pull TP60s for satellites who won't even start delivering for 2 hours after they leave the building.

 

[underworked1]

throw some ice and snow on those....

Or rain on the dirt roads. EC everything

 

[underworked1]

A good judge of how country a route is, is by how many very scary wooden bridges are on it. The kind of bridge you find down a dirt road and looks like it was built in 1935. As you cross it the loose boards are popping up and down because they aren't fastened ..just laid across steel beams.

 

[El Correcto]

all routes are terrible in my center.

 

[Dr.Brownz]

A good judge of how country a route is, is by how many very scary wooden bridges are on it. The kind of bridge you find down a dirt road and looks like it was built in 1935. As you cross it the loose boards are popping up and down because they aren't fastened ..just laid across steel beams.

We have a route with creek crossings here. During spring that route will run 10 to 30 miles extra going around them. In winter its ec or leave in "town"

 

[Dr.Brownz]

holy

Every day i do 90 miles..200-220 4 pickups.. where the hell is your center!?!

Idaho\eastern washington. Its a real hellscape out here

 

[bottomups]

A good judge of how country a route is, is by how many very scary wooden bridges are on it. The kind of bridge you find down a dirt road and looks like it was built in 1935. As you cross it the loose boards are popping up and down because they aren't fastened ..just laid across steel beams.

I got a few of these. Must be a rural route!

 

[PASinterference]

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I got a few of these. Must be a rural route!

No.....you got guard rails. And no gaps in the boards. And nobody standing on the bridge fishing off it.

 

[barnyard]

Idaho\eastern washington. Its a real hellscape out here

My oldest lives in Pullman.

Love that area.

 

[SmithBarney]

No.....you got guard rails. And no gaps in the boards. And nobody standing on the bridge fishing off it.

Makes me remember one such bridge... it was short, and it was narrow and it was made out of an old FLAT RAILCAR.
Looked like this, without rails, and just a small lip on either side made out of L shaped steel....

 

[rod]

I had a few of stops out in the sticks where the land owners built their own bridges. Some of those were spooky.