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I never realized how dangerous my job was – until the crashes started adding up.

Earlier this month a UPS plane ‘was destroyed after it impacted the ground shortly after takeoff’ from Louisville, Kentucky, killing all three people on board. Along the path of destruction, eleven more lost their lives and twenty-three others suffered mostly minor but still life-altering injuries. Though it didn’t attribute a cause or make any safety […]

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UPS drivers have something in common with professional athletes. (Hint: It’s not the big paycheck.)

In my last post I was feeling pretty good. I’d returned to training for a marathon after a long hiatus, and I believed my new(-ish) job as a UPS driver was helping me train stronger than ever before. Since I’d been setting new records in my training runs of various distances, I flew to Denver […]