Who are these mail truck drivers?

The mail never stops. That truck never shuts off except for services. There's always a driver waiting on the other end to hop in the truck and take over. Maximum utilization of equipment is the name of the game in mail hauling.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if they find him off in a ditch somewhere. It even happens to Fed-Ex now and then.

 

I drove for a reefer company where the condo trucks were governed at 66mph. All the tractors were the same except one that was 2 years older & a flat top. & governed at 62mph. I chose the flat top over a condo and drove it coast-to-coast / border-to-border and made the same money monthly I was making at 66mph. I just liked the interior of the flat top & it was extremely quiet inside from normal road noise. Got off topic, but my point is those mail haulers aren't saving but very few minutes per trip by speeding.

 

I managed the warehousing/airport operations for a contractor for 20 years before getting in a truck. Unrealistic schedules, huge fines for being late and a pressure to perform cause a lot of that ####....especially when the weather is bad and/or there's an aircraft on a just as unrealistic schedule waiting for the mail.

Sounds like the MCofA guy that almost took my hood off coming dow 85 between Richmond and raliegh last night. Pinched me in my lane until i was rumbling on the zipper, then swooped across my hood with about 3ft to spare. Never gave a signal and had no traffic around anywhere. And couldn't keep or hold his lane if he had to. MCofA is probably the worst of the bunch for that ####....right on par with the fedex ground guys.

 

drove seasonal with mathison they do the I 70 run from denver to phili.slip seat truck just like the pony express.I was in the middle never had to fuel and always had a warm truck at 20.00 a hr

 

Did priority overnight freight for Old Dominion from Montabello CA. to Kettleman city CA. 188 miles each way. When leaving Montabello CA. at eight pm it was not to bad, but when held up for an hour or two it was real bad. By bad I mean that the fog was heaver when taking off later in the evening. As you drop down off the vine you could see a massive fog cloud waiting in the San Joaquin Vally. (round this time of year) Another OD driver from the bay area would meet me at Kettleman City, it was hot freight (not mail) going in both directions and we would swap sets, it was like running a relay race. I hated this run, needed to be back in montabello by seven am at 28 cpm. We would go from 67 mph to less than thirty mph due to the fog, it was a real task and you had to keep your foot into it at all times, letting up only for the fog or heavy wind. (60 plus mph winds later in the year) Honestly I would rather run OTR and local B/4 ever going back to overnight freight. So this is kinda like the same thing with the mail trucks, even more so. At 500 gross dollars a week back then (1998) it was not for me. I feel this type of driving, Less than 400 miles should always be by the hour, never by the mile. Anyway that's why they call it HAULING THE MAIL.

 

Guess they have to do something before they go out of business! Maybe that's why stamps are so expensive! Have to pay for all that unnecessary fuel consumption.

 

Bender, does that cat have boxing gloves on?

 

Sounds like Tnt Enterprises,,lol..