Started my local routes

I was also nervous when I had my first sex. It gets better with experience

 

It takes time.you'll probably be going to a lot of the same customers.in time it'll become routine.I would study your routes before heading out everyday until you can master local driving.if u can do otr you'll be able to handle this. Ask other drivers at your company for help.

 

there is a delicate line of pushing yourself past your comfort level
and being in a mess because of over confidence only you can tell the difference. What you do know is others are doing these routes daily so you can to
The downside of local is your on high alert all day every day not much freeway time
good luck be careful

 

That sort of mentality has helped me thru the years, knowing there has to be a way and somebody else did it before me.

 

I also just started my first real 'local' job hauling gasoline to service stations. There's only one correct way into these service stations and one error will screw up your entire setup, waste time, and make you look stupid in front of these very irritable gas station customers. It feels completely different to me but it gets better.

 

Hey a'hole, can't you go park that big truck somewhere else, you're right in my way and that's my favorite pump!!

 

Easy man, look ahead, and say to yourself "I can fit thru that hole" and just hammer down thru it...If you cant, you cant..

Double check what your doing..dont take a never taken street unless you know you cant fit under all the lines!!!

Watch Ice road truckers a few shows back...Alex says, "sometimes a driver just needs to grab the wheel and drive!!

Love it

 

Pretty much. Or these people think I work directly for the oil refinery and I am now a pump technician, a gas station clerk and a fortune teller all rolled into one. These people are complete idiots man, they'll smoke while I'm delivering fuel, approach me in my coned off zone to ask me stupid questions about irrelevant things I don't know anything about. They run over my cones, act 'road raged' with me for blocking off a work area. They'll park right on the fills and sit there on their 'smart phones' while I'm trying to get in to unload. Being the very first visible person at the gas station, these idiots can't seem to understand the concept that I am not an Arco/Chevron/Gas Station employee and they will complain to me about everything, and expect me to fix it. Like, dude gets mad that he can't get premium, or a woman gets snippy with me for not solving her debit card issue at the pump. These people are complete idiots.