cachsux
Wah
Avoidable: driver should have anticipated uneven pavement surfaces.
Anyone REGRET going to feeders?
- Thread starter MaceFremonti
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Avoidable: driver should have anticipated uneven pavement surfaces.
Old International
Now driving a Sterling
I think UPS screwed the pooch with the single screw, tag axle tractors. I see nothing but trouble when the road gets slick. ANd even more trouble when you park the wrong way, and lift a drive tire.
I can see that call...."Uh boss, I'm stuck". WHAT!!HOW?? The weather is clear down there..... Well, you see, there is this little bump, and uh, well, uh I parked the tag axle on it, and it has lifted my drive up, and now all she does is spin. &^^$^&^%$$@#$^&&*** JOHNSON, I told you not to park on a (*&%%$%#@@$^* bump.
I can see that call...."Uh boss, I'm stuck". WHAT!!HOW?? The weather is clear down there..... Well, you see, there is this little bump, and uh, well, uh I parked the tag axle on it, and it has lifted my drive up, and now all she does is spin. &^^$^&^%$$@#$^&&*** JOHNSON, I told you not to park on a (*&%%$%#@@$^* bump.
MaceFremonti
Well-Known Member
Everyone was busting the guys ball$ who got to drive one today...."ooooh training wheels...when are you getting a big boy tractor?"
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1BROWNWRENCH
Amatuer Malthusian
MaceFremonti
Well-Known Member
6 month update...I've gained 30 lbs, make more $$$ than in delivery, have 3 days off a week, am home by 17:30, and have a new tractor...all I regret is waiting over 20 years to make the jump!
6 month update...I've gained 30 lbs, make more $$$ than in delivery, have 3 days off a week, am home by 17:30, and have a new tractor...all I regret is waiting over 20 years to make the jump!
In our building it takes atleast 25 years of seniority to get a decent feeder run so the more years in package you can handle the better life will be in feeders.
Some younger low seniority package drivers who make the jump are on-call or work crazy hours. If you are single its cool but if you have young kids not so much.
pretender
Well-Known Member
...and the fewer "friends" you will have in feeders when you exercise your seniority.
joeboodog
good people drink good beer
In packages they just keep throwing shoes at our heads.
olroadbeech
Happy Verified UPSer
if you are at my hub and have more seniority, then it is the worse job in the world!
'Lord Brown's bidding'
Well-Known Member
How easy is it to get OT? In package, right now things are quiet. In feeders are there "slow periods" where OT is infrequent?
Dracula
Package Car is cake compared to this...
Major hub. Never a short of OT here. Only choice is if it comes at the expense of Sunday nights, or Friday nights...
Either way, after feeders, package car is like going from Junior High to High school. Even in High School, there are slow days, but you never really think back to the Junior High days. Package car seems like an old dream by now. I would need a universe of training to fall back into PC.
Lucky for me, UPS doesn't have that depth of training on the books.
Either way, after feeders, package car is like going from Junior High to High school. Even in High School, there are slow days, but you never really think back to the Junior High days. Package car seems like an old dream by now. I would need a universe of training to fall back into PC.
Lucky for me, UPS doesn't have that depth of training on the books.
Dracula
Package Car is cake compared to this...
Maybe, but responsibility means different things in different worlds. Responsibilities in package car means not crashing, not missing pick-ups, not mis-delivering packages and not getting sexual harassment concerns. In feeders, your responsibilities are not crashing. They say, "don't be late". But see which situation keeps you in a brown uniform: missing a sort, or crashing a set of doubles.
If you don't know the answer to that question, you're right, feeders isn't for you. But if you know, you'll be golden...
Dracula
Package Car is cake compared to this...
Boom, boom, boom...bounce, bounce bounce. Still pays better than all of the rest.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
Going to feeders is not necessarily an "upgrade".
