Things were going well. Had a sub, days off, everything fine. But then a fellow carrier had trouble with his disability retirement. Been off work over a year and a half now, still not retired. Sub on hold down got tired of waiting for full time. Transfers to a nearby office with a full time opening. Cant blame him. Other rca doesnt have a pov, and has resisted getting one, as three of four routes in office are gov vehicle routes. Borrowed the carriers pov when he had to run that route. So now more pov to borrow. So now im working six days a week, no subs anywhere im told. Rca on pov route is using metris from the aux route to deliver the pov route, and the aux route rca is using his pov. My metris started loosing a quart of coolant every 500 miles, and had an engine light for a miss on cylinder 2. So it goes to VMF. VMF brings me an llv for a 90 mile route with 40 miles of gravel roads in august in iowa. So the entire chain of events has me working six days a week in an llv. It wasnt hot today, about 80 degrees, so it wasnt bad, except i was covered in dust and coughing like i smoked a pack a day. I attempted to talk to the pm about the rca on the pov route using the llv, as I think he should either buy a vehicle-its an h route 100 miles long-or have to use the llv if he refuses to buy a vehicle. That didnt go well. At least its supposed to rain tomorrow, so i shouldnt be covered in gravel dust at the end of the day. Thank you for listening to my minor rant for the day.
