The last 15 years I worked, I was with the world’s largest pizza delivery company making store-door deliveries of bulk food to stores in Michigan, northeastern Indians, and northern Ohio. This meant I was getting out of the truck to work in cities like South Bend, Grand Rapids, Cleveland, Akron, Canton, and Detroit. You might also run out of hours at any one of these places and have to park and sleep (at that time) for 8 hours.
About half of the stores were locates in “questionable” neighborhoods and it was not terribly unusual for our drivers to be subjected to being robbed, but the company had a strict policy against carrying firearms. A policy I totally ignored and carried a 1911 or a P90 in a Smart Carry on almost every trip.
I never got robbed or had to use it, thank God, but I was much more comfortable walking around the streets of Detroit with it than not with it. Many of our runs were team runs, and I know my co-drivers were happy I was carrying, or they too were carrying.