Life is admittedly difficult for people who deliver things for a living.
Whether it’s a bike courier or a food-app worker or a person who delivers packages or food or furniture, time is your enemy.
And when time is your enemy, you make decisions that aren’t always the best for people’s safety or convenience. Time pushes delivery workers into breaking local laws, especially when it comes to speeding and parking illegally.
Case in point for the illegal parking is the photo that goes with this blog above or the one below that shows a truck parking in a space designated for people with mobility issues.
The one above shows a UPS driver deciding to just hop up their truck on the sidewalk near a school because, well, it’s convenient for them.
Tell your drivers not to mount sidewalks,” Richard Campbell tweeted to UPS on Twitter. “It is illegal and can make it difficult or impossible for some people (who) use them. This was right by a school. Even better, use cargo bikes instead of huge fossil fuel vehicles. It is frigging 2020.”
You’ve likely seen this behaviour happen multiple times each and every day. Just because you can see a few seconds by parking illegally doesn’t make it right.
Imagine you use a wheelchair and you’re trying to pass by this truck and can’t because there isn’t enough cement. How is that fair? All because you feel your job supersedes our local laws.
Follow Chris Campbell on Twitter @shinebox44.
