It’s a good description for being a bike messenger. Looking at the numbers, it just amazes me. 130 messengers just for 1 company; I think Atlanta has 8. The food delivery folks are on scooters. Over a 1000 packages a day, again for 1 company. From World Trade Magazine online…
Extreme Logistics: When it Pays to be Fit
by Cynthia Y. McCann
February 2, 2011
Bike messengering is hardly a logistics desk job.
The Low-Down:
This isn’t a logistics desk job. It’s racing taxis, traffic, exhaust, loud noise, weather, enduring obscenities, and riding 30 to 40 miles a day to get packages delivered.
For bicycle messengers, it’s athleticism, know-how, and grit that count. So it’s no surprise that during a recent orientation class for new bikers, Andrew Young, general manager of Breakaway Courier Systems in New York City, told the class that only half of them would make it.
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