A Day in the Life of a
Delivery Crew T
By Stacy Ward, Managing Editor fedastacy@ver izon.net
here's a lot of frustrating things that happen to a delivery guy, says Fred Cypress, who now serves as president of Dixie Store Fixtures but spent many a day trying to muscle a 37-inch refrigerator through a 36-inch door.
"Back then,we didn't have cell phones or GPS," says the
third-generation owner,whose father also paid his dues help- ing the delivery crew. "That was during the early years of Dixie and life out in the field was pretty rough. Sometimes a salesperson would write down the wrong address. Or, you'd get to a locationwith a loaded truck and no onewould be there to pay for it.The door wasn't big enough to get the
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