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Can I *please* win the lottery?
Apr. 8th, 2010 06:22 pmI'm just shy of dead. Today I had 17 distinct assigned stops in five different counties. One of this stops was on the far eastern edge of my service area. Two were at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, meaning twenty minutes spent in security checks and driving at their "follow it or we arrest your ass" 25mph speed limit. One was the Benicia transfer I've been doing daily for a while no in preparation for their branch closing. All in all, if I had gotten to everything, I would have driven over 300 miles. As it was, I drove 272 miles, worked 10.5 hours without a meaningful break, and still had to cancel the Benicia stop and tell the office there was no physical way I was going to make it to my last vendor pick-up before they closed.
Understand that I take great pride in my work, and my ability to handle everything thrown at me. But today there was just too much for me to do given my truck and the distances involved. I got to my second to last stop 15 minutes before they quit for the day, and my last stop over an hour after they left for the day. Luckily, I've been given permission to leave material in their lay-down yard. But not being able to do everything I've been assigned bothers me. I was even considering making an attempt at getting to that last vendor, until I saw traffic for the freeway I'd need to take was backed up for miles. I'd still be out there now.
Here, look at this map. What I think needs to be done if we are getting busy again is split my route in two. One route would follow the 680 corridor and serve the cities along it with a short branch eastwards on Hwy 4 to Pittsburg. Call that one "Concord/Sonoma." The other would handle everything east of that. Call that "Delta/Central Valley." With the impending closure of Benicia, my route is going to be inheriting some new stops which would be perfect for the Concord/Sonoma route. The D/CV route would still cover a lot of miles and have three of our most frequent vendor pickups, but removing the 680 corridor stops would make the hours workable.
Or I could win the lottery.
Understand that I take great pride in my work, and my ability to handle everything thrown at me. But today there was just too much for me to do given my truck and the distances involved. I got to my second to last stop 15 minutes before they quit for the day, and my last stop over an hour after they left for the day. Luckily, I've been given permission to leave material in their lay-down yard. But not being able to do everything I've been assigned bothers me. I was even considering making an attempt at getting to that last vendor, until I saw traffic for the freeway I'd need to take was backed up for miles. I'd still be out there now.
Here, look at this map. What I think needs to be done if we are getting busy again is split my route in two. One route would follow the 680 corridor and serve the cities along it with a short branch eastwards on Hwy 4 to Pittsburg. Call that one "Concord/Sonoma." The other would handle everything east of that. Call that "Delta/Central Valley." With the impending closure of Benicia, my route is going to be inheriting some new stops which would be perfect for the Concord/Sonoma route. The D/CV route would still cover a lot of miles and have three of our most frequent vendor pickups, but removing the 680 corridor stops would make the hours workable.
Or I could win the lottery.
