One of my Uncles was a milk man for many years until they did away the milk man job. I think he got up around 4 am to start his route. I believe I was a teenager when they eliminated the milkman's delivery job all together. That was about the time when the "milk store" was built and replaced the milkman. Where I grew up, a couple of the small towns had Dairy plants where the large semi's would bring in the milk from the dairy farmers to have it processed and bottled. The milkman would go to the dairy plants daily and pick up the milk for his deliveries......fresh from the dairy! And you could be sure their was no hormones, etc. in the milk neither!