How do delivery drivers survive sitting all day?

Delivery driving is a strange hybrid: hundreds of short sits broken up by climbing in and out, walking, and lifting. The movement is actually a gift — unlike a long-haul trucker, a delivery driver's tissues rarely marinate in one position for three hours. But the job trades that problem for two others: repeated awkward lifting, and dozens of daily transitions in and out of a seat that's usually the cheapest part of the van. The drivers who last years, not months, tend to do a few things consistently:

• They protect the lifts. The back injury almost never happens in the seat — it happens at the curb, twisting out of the door with a package. Hinge at the hips, keep the load close, turn with your feet instead of your spine, and treat the awkward 30-pounder with the respect you'd give a 60-pounder.
• They set the seat up once, properly. Knees softly bent to the pedals, backrest just past vertical, lumbar filled in, wallet and phone out of the back pockets.
• They fix the surface they sit on. Van and box-truck seats concentrate pressure like any hard seat, and route vibration adds up across a ten-hour day. A strap-on air-cell cushion spreads weight across the whole seat and absorbs the road buzz — the same layer riders use on motorcycle saddles, doing the same job between doorsteps.
• They end the day with two minutes of extension — standing back bends and a hip-flexor stretch to counter a day folded at the hips.

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