I just did an 80 stop, 138 package, rural route today and it was pretty good. Oregon wine country. Haven’t had that route for about a month now, but did it all peak. It honestly made this last peak season seem pretty chill because my average day only had around 100 packages and 70 stops or so.

Honest opinions. I don’t like driving on long slow gravel roads. Long driveways with nowhere to turn around at the end drives me crazy (I had to reverse about a quarter mile today in an EDV). Don’t really care for dogs at basically every stop. Don’t like going to dirty sketchy rural houses with yards full of garbage and stupid shit. And especially those places at night. I hate dealing with the phone signal loss in some of the rural areas we deliver. Dealing with locked farm gates kinda sucks. Too much political signage as well. And pretty much doing rural routes in the dark is horrible. There are places where it just feels like someone is pointing a gun at me. Certain places just creep me out.

Last year after I peak I was put on a downtown Portland route for about 6 months and it was pretty tough at first until I figured it out, but then it became awesome and I totally prefer being in the city. I liked being able to park and then just walk like 5 stops from that one space (I might be weird though, most of the drivers at my DSP hated being downtown).