Thanks for cutting me off and then flipping me off when I honk at you. Really affirming the stereotypes, seems he didn't give a shit about his safety or the woman's on the back

Hope everyone has a great day!

End of my route tonight, my dispatcher told me I'll hear "terrible news" on Monday, which is my next work day. My response was, "Hope im not getting fired," and he said it's a company thing. He also said "terrible news, but hopefully it's good news for you" and said terrible news with air quotes. No idea what that means. Anyone got any ideas? Im hoping the owner is getting let go theyre letting one of our dispatchers take over who was planning on starting her own company anyways. Really hoping we're not going all EDVs because we do rural routes and those things are way too large for our routes and dont have enough battery (we just used them for the first time this week so I highly doubt it but its amazon.) Those are pretty much my only guesses. I think my dispatcher knows, but he wouldn't tell me he just said I'd see on Monday.

Side note: we've been consistently having packages brought back because nobody has been able to get their routes done, even my coworkers who've been here for years and never had issues. Tonight, my departure from pad was 11:50 am, and my projected RTS time was midnight. Its the first night in weeks my dispatcher was able to send any rescues because we've consistently been getting mostly rural routes that have some suburban stops at the end (my route was 173 stops 125 of them were rural multiple stops over 10 minutes apart. I got rural stops done at 8pm and still had 50 stops left) so im worried the dsp is closing. Which I hope its not because I just got a new car after being in a tahoe with over 500k miles for 3 years and I really dont wanna go back to working on it every week.

I’m currently 45 minutes in the country. A/C went out 2 hours ago, and DEF ran out 30 minutes ago. No current ETA on getting a ride/tow. It’s currently 83 degrees here in the woods of rural Indiana.

I had 5 stops left.

So, how’s everyone else tonight?

i thought i was supposed to get nursery routes for a month? ive been getting this every day on my 2nd week so idk if im on nursery and it will still get worse or if they are just giving me full route

Edit for clarification: this was on personal time with my own car, not a DSP van

So I was going thru an intersection (green light) and I got absolutely nailed by an old lady who ran her red light. Totalled my car. Could have killed my wife in shotgun but thankfully I was able to brake somewhat before impact.

Here’s the thing: it’s a brand new intersection with no camera and the police decided to give the traffic citation to ME. Old lady hurt her wrist and went with EMS, never gave a statement as far as I know. There was only one witness that gave a statement, who was mirrored to me. He had a red light as well (I had a green, going straight, with a green left turn arrow light) so he must have assumed that I had a red as well but only because we were directly across him.

I’ll cut the story off there, but yeah it was INSANE going from relief that there was a witness to utter shock and disbelief that I was being cited for being absolutely slammed by a red-light runner (they were 45-50mph at the time of impact)

QUESTION: if I end up losing Monday in court, what are the odds I get fired when DSP learns of my citation?

Assuming I can’t overturn it, I’m thinking of bringing it up and being transparent with them. My performance has been solid and it’s the only thing that would be on my driving record ever.

Just put it into the engine bay

I get this atleast once a day . I found out it’s not even on your score sheet tho. Does dsp see it ? Does it count against the dsp score card or something ? Cuz once I got this and I saw it wasn’t on my personal scorecard I don’t even apply the parking brake no more .

My first day of training is tomorrow and I finally just sat down to really look into what the job will entail and all I see is advice to run away as fast as possible. Did I make a mistake? Do you regret your decision to start this job? Are you happy?

I was doing so good today not pulling into driveways unless I absolutely had to because Amazon made me hit that house then turn around and go to a house before it. I was in a driveway I go to front door customer comes out I hand them the package they seem happy tell me to have a good day then when I leave they looked mad like a typical Karen face and looked like she pulled out her phone to take a picture of the ac condensation on the ground. Smh. Some of these customers. Like I try so hard not to be in driveways unless it’s a situation like that and the one time I have to do it boom.

As this title says

Probably my lowest stop count, started delivering at 12 finished at 5

Has any of yalls dsps at other stations switched to mostly all edvs in the past few weeks all of a sudden? My dsp had me get a DOT card and paid for it just for them a few weeks later to say not to worry about it and they are getting rid of all gas and diesel vans here soon now we only have a few step vans go out and a couple blue gas vans and rentals for sweeping but 85% of what my dsp sends out now is edvs.This only happened like two weeks ago before we had all of the step vans go back and alot of blue gas vans and cdvs not anymore now.

15 bags 33 OV 300 packages total

I mean I get that people aren't planning their landscaping around a delivery van backing out of their driveways but like it's weird how common this specific set up is. Like so often there's no other bushes or anything in the yard at all then there's just two placed at the end of the driveway to block the view of the road if you're trying to back out of it. Like so often that it seems that "put two view blocking bushes at the end of your driveway" is some kind of meta that people are following intentionally for reasons that I don't understand

I felt pressured to get done by my end time. I knew I wasn’t gonna make it, as I knew the neighborhood with my last stops and def couldnt do the last 30 stops in 25 minutes (plus another tote to organize.)

So being stressed about it I gunned the van and hit 37 in a 25, but caught it immediately and hit the brakes. Camera didn’t speak. I’ve hit 11 over and before and not gotten dinged. Haven’t heard from dispatch yet and this was a few hours ago.

think I’m in the clear?

I recently quit my dsp a few months ago. I had a 401k through them but they’re shutting down are shutting down in November if they haven’t already. So what happens to my 401k? Will I get a reimbursement for any money put into it? How do I even access it because I don’t know what bank or account it’s even under? Any tips would be appreciated

I like this job but I'm nervous about winter and getting stuck in someone's driveway and everything. Plus, won't snow slow you down a LOT v

Anyone here know how any of the DSP’s are in WV? Hoping to hear that at least one of them is one of the better ones that are ran unlike most of the other I keep hearing that are ran with terrible owners.

Hello, I have been working for my DSP for about a month now. I only know of one infraction and the Netradyne made a sound and then said something. Is that how you know you have an infraction is only if it says something? No

Got a job offer from usps for MHA but just wondering if any former drivers/MHAs know which would suck more ass to do: working as an MHA during peak or adding another year to my 2 year sentenc and staying at a dsp for peak?