Ask a Feeder Driver, Feeder Driver FAQ

[trickpony1]

Oddly, you could "volunteer" 24/7 and never sleep and come to work. But make one cent and you've violated.....

Yes, it is odd and fundamentally wrong.
The next thing you know UPS and DOT will have CCTV in our bedrooms to monitor if we got 8 hours of sleep.

 

[silenze]

Yes, it is odd and fundamentally wrong.
The next thing you know UPS and DOT will have CCTV in our bedrooms to monitor if we got 8 hours of sleep.

They already do. If you have a cpap it tracks when you wear it

 

[BigUnionGuy]

Have Feeders drivers worked the HUB for months in the past ?

Something fishy is going on at my local and I’m really getting tired of having to work trailers, I didn’t sign up for this.

To the OP: Anything you "work at" and make money while you are supposed to be off for 10 hours is a crime. Federal.

Did you read the part about him working inside.... and not driving a feeder ?

 

[Themanthatdid]

Lying to 36 new hires and saying they will have tons of work for off the streets is wrong also. Having 36 FEEDER drivers sweeping trailers and picking up pallets and trash off the ground, are not even getting a call at all for months at a time is crazy to me. I been had my 31 punches and pass my 90 days now so I have the option to pass on HUB as many times as I I want. If it’s a WAD job then of course I have to come in but that’s only on Friday.

I highly doubt they’ll just find work out of nowhere for all 36 drivers cause a UPS deal for a certain local fell through with sleeper teams. It’s not my concern and I could care less what UPS think about me finding other ways to pay my bills. At the end of the day they don’t care if my bills get paid, I don’t see nothing wrong with starting a business on the side.

 

[MisplacedRailWorker]

Here we go....

I will agree to your statement....to some extent.

It is UPS's business. You sign documents and complete training to such. No? Yeah ya do. Not signing the documents doesn't mean you didn't do the training. Yes, I'm aware of all the excuses and possibilities in court. They can get you a hundred different ways. But dishonesty would get you canned permanently.

No? Say, you have an accident and kill someone.....and through discovery it is found out you had this "side hustle".....

Company policy would really be the least of your worries as it is Federal now. No? Ask the Walmart driver who killed a bus full of college students(a few anyway). One is enough. It is possible jail time and an unlimited liability... Hell, you could get sued by UPS....

To the OP: Anything you "work at" and make money while you are supposed to be off for 10 hours is a crime. Federal.

Oddly, you could "volunteer" 24/7 and never sleep and come to work. But make one cent and you've violated.....

No? UPS would cut you loose so fast.....then your State, Federal....imagine being that Fed-Ex ground truck in the Texas 130 car ice pile up. You know the one that is in every picture....They announced lawsuits the same day.....what will they find....?

Am I scared? No. Do I respect the law? You bet. DO I want to keep my job? You bet.

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@quad decade guy hit the nail on the head. Those are all real life scenarios

of course there’s factors as to what kind of business it is, if it runs itself (I.e. vacation rentals, Amazon FBA seller etc.) whether or not you have to invest hours every week that is taking away from sleep

But let’s get down to brass tacks: if you get into an accident, UPS will waive au revoir to you, business owner or not. You’re in feeders, ask @Yeet @Maple Grove MN Driver or @Covemastah if they know of any tier accident where the driver kept his job.

 

[WannaBeFeeder]

Lying to 36 new hires and saying they will have tons of work for off the streets is wrong also. Having 36 FEEDER drivers sweeping trailers and picking up pallets and trash off the ground, are not even getting a call at all for months at a time is crazy to me. I been had my 31 punches and pass my 90 days now so I have the option to pass on HUB as many times as I I want. If it’s a WAD job then of course I have to come in but that’s only on Friday.

I highly doubt they’ll just find work out of nowhere for all 36 drivers cause a UPS deal for a certain local fell through with sleeper teams. It’s not my concern and I could care less what UPS think about me finding other ways to pay my bills. At the end of the day they don’t care if my bills get paid, I don’t see nothing wrong with starting a business on the side.

This is how i started i came off the streets and it was rough at 1st..... found a FedEx Ground contractor would let me run weekends for him it was easy work all drop and hook 8 hours runs that i could finish in 7 if i hauled ass. 250$ a day

 

[quad decade guy]

Lying to 36 new hires and saying they will have tons of work for off the streets is wrong also. Having 36 FEEDER drivers sweeping trailers and picking up pallets and trash off the ground, are not even getting a call at all for months at a time is crazy to me. I been had my 31 punches and pass my 90 days now so I have the option to pass on HUB as many times as I I want. If it’s a WAD job then of course I have to come in but that’s only on Friday.

I highly doubt they’ll just find work out of nowhere for all 36 drivers cause a UPS deal for a certain local fell through with sleeper teams. It’s not my concern and I could care less what UPS think about me finding other ways to pay my bills. At the end of the day they don’t care if my bills get paid, I don’t see nothing wrong with starting a business on the side.

Cool. Proceed at your peril.....

You don't see "nothing wrong".......UPS, DOT and the State does......

Carry on...

 

[quad decade guy]

Did you read the part about him working inside.... and not driving a feeder ?

My statements apply to feeder work.

 

[Cowboy Mac]

Lying to 36 new hires and saying they will have tons of work for off the streets is wrong also. Having 36 FEEDER drivers sweeping trailers and picking up pallets and trash off the ground, are not even getting a call at all for months at a time is crazy to me. I been had my 31 punches and pass my 90 days now so I have the option to pass on HUB as many times as I I want. If it’s a WAD job then of course I have to come in but that’s only on Friday.

I highly doubt they’ll just find work out of nowhere for all 36 drivers cause a UPS deal for a certain local fell through with sleeper teams. It’s not my concern and I could care less what UPS think about me finding other ways to pay my bills. At the end of the day they don’t care if my bills get paid, I don’t see nothing wrong with starting a business on the side.

Imagine getting your foot in the door to the best position at UPS, hired off the street ahead of people who have put years and years in to the company, and complaining because you have to clean some pallets to get your guaranteed 8. Boo freaking hoo...

 

[robot]

Have Feeders drivers worked the HUB for months in the past ?

Something fishy is going on at my local and I’m really getting tired of having to work trailers, I didn’t sign up for this.

Yeah. During the recession in 2008 they sent the bottom 10% of of our feeder drivers with seniority back to the hub. I remember working in the hub loading/unloading trailers for almost a year

 

[quad decade guy]

Imagine getting your foot in the door to the best position at UPS, hired off the street ahead of people who have put years and years in to the company, and complaining because you have to clean some pallets to get your guaranteed 8. Boo freaking hoo...

Yep. I had 25 full time years and a snot nose off the street hire got hired at another hub(then followed work) and hired right in front of me.

The OP is in for some misery. But his greatest threat is himself....

 

[BigUnionGuy]

 

[Yeet]

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Yyyeaaahh, that one is going to make the rounds at my hub. Thanks for the material, that’s freaking hilarious. I would ask how, but I don’t think I want to know.

 

[What'dyabringmetoday???]

Yyyeaaahh, that one is going to make the rounds at my hub. Thanks for the material, that’s freaking hilarious. I would ask how, but I don’t think I want to know.

Towing service.

 

[Yeet]

Towing service.

What? As in they towed it back like that on purpose? I have so many questions.

 

[Treegrower]

Yep. I had 25 full time years and a snot nose off the street hire got hired at another hub(then followed work) and hired right in front of me.

The OP is in for some misery. But his greatest threat is himself....

In my local our seniority dovetails in department to department and job to job. It’s great!

 

[Yeet]

In my local our seniority dovetails in department to department and job to job. It’s great!

Not here. Seniority by classification.

 

[robot]

What? As in they towed it back like that on purpose? I have so many questions.

Yeah they’ll flip the dolly and chain the front to the legs. Then they tow it using the dolly as rear wheels. It’s weird

 

[Well-Known Member]

Yeah they’ll flip the dolly and chain the front to the legs. Then they tow it using the dolly as rear wheels. It’s weird

They'll do this when something happens to the rear axle (bearings locked up, broken springs, etc.) and they can't tow it from the front.

Use the dolly as the axle and tow it from the rear.

 

[ManInBrown]

Not here. Seniority by classification.

Same here. We just did our yearly job bids and I got beat out for a cake satellite center job by an off the street guy who I have 7 years company time on. Stoked about that. Fun times.