emtfarva
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Between my partner and myself this discussion has come up lately. Do you like busy or dead shifts? Now I work on an Als transfer truck and sometimes we are busy doing local D/C's other times we do long runs to Boston. We had a very Busy shift on Friday, yet the day still just dragged by. We work a 10 hour day from 11:00 to 21:00. By 18:00 we had done 5 calls and we were dispatched to 6th taking us to Boston. Now you are going to say that 5 calls are not that many, but to us that was a lot. We average 4 calls a day. Mostly Bls calls but Friday was all Bls until the last. It made us late by about 1 hour. (we had to stop for food before the last call or else we would need another truck for us. We were getting hypoglycemic.) Now, also we have a pretty large service area that covers most of the south coast of Mass. So sometimes we will do a short call at one Hosp and then we will have to drive about 30 mins to our next call. When we have dead days we are bored out of minds. I was just wondering what type of shifts you guys like to work. Also we don't really see quarters until the end of the shift so we are sitting in the truck most of the day. How about you all, do you post or sit at quarters and wait for the next call? :wacko: