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[pkgdriver]

Thief.

Naw…I got it from a guy for 12.00. He threw an Red Apple Watch in also.

 

[UnionStrong]

Naw…I got it from a guy for 12.00. He threw a Red Apple Watch in also.

How’s Powder doing?

 

[Cowboy Mac]

Wow!! You’re starting to seem like you’re becoming a little unhinged
Serious question you ever think about therapy?

I was just about to say the same thing. It sounds like he’s traumatized by the glad hand incident.

 

[Johney]

I was just about to say the same thing. It sounds like he’s traumatized by the glad hand incident.

Right, if a glad hand incident was considered an accident there’d be no feeder drivers left in our district. I can’t count how many I’ve had break especially the new ones made out of that crap cheap metal.

 

[Just A UPS Guy]

I was just about to say the same thing. It sounds like he’s traumatized by the glad hand incident.

And still scared of the supervisor who saw it.

 

[I have NOT been lurking]

Can I use the Jake Brake 24/7 in good weather?

 

[BigUnionGuy]

With all respect......then technically what is it? Serious question. We had to wear browns. Had to meet every other aspect of being a UPS'er.

To me, it comes down to pkg guys working off the clock etc. What if you fall off the tractor and get really hurt.....workmen's comp recordable eligible? Serious question. What say you?

Even if your supplement doesn't provide pay for the non-productive week of training....

You are still a UPS employee and would be eligible for workers comp.

Smart guy like you should know this.

 

[burrheadd]

Can I use the Jake Brake 24/7 in good weather?

Why wouldn’t you be able to use it

 

[MyTripisCut]

Why wouldn’t you be able to use it

Ummm, cause they don’t have one?

 

[burrheadd]

Ummm, cause they don’t have one?

Makes sense

 

[I have NOT been lurking]

Why wouldn’t you be able to use it

Noise free areas

 

[over9five]

Can I use the Jake Brake 24/7 in good weather?

You could.... I rarely use it, don't like it for normal driving. Not many hills here in Mass either...

 

[oldngray]

You could.... I rarely use it, don't like it for normal driving. Not many hills here in Mass either...

Not many hills around here but there are still signs banning it. They don't call it Jake Braking though. Is that a regional term?

 

[UnionStrong]

Not many hills around here but there are still signs banning it. They don't call it Jake Braking though. Is that a regional term?

I see sign’s saying no engine breaking

 

[Cowboy Mac]

Noise free areas

There’s one town I go through sometimes that you go down a big hill as you’re coming into town. They have a lowered speed limit sign halfway down the hill. Of course at the top of the hill is an engine braking prohibited sign.

I use the jakes anyways, I’m not going to come flying down a hill into a small town with my brakes smoking. It feels like they set it up that way to entrap truck drivers coming from the border.

 

[burrheadd]

Not many hills around here but there are still signs banning it. They don't call it Jake Braking though. Is that a regional term?

The company that makes them is “Jacobs”

 

[Trucker Clock]

There’s one town I go through sometimes that you go down a big hill as you’re coming into town. They have a lowered speed limit sign halfway down the hill. Of course at the top of the hill is an engine braking prohibited sign.

I use the jakes anyways, I’m not going to come flying down a hill into a small town with my brakes smoking. It feels like they set it up that way to entrap truck drivers coming from the border.

Ours aren’t that loud. You can barely hear ours.

Unlike some of these over the road trucks that you can hear from a mile away.

 

[qdg2]

I was just about to say the same thing. It sounds like he’s traumatized by the glad hand incident.

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And still scared of the supervisor who saw it.

Were you there? I don't recall you being there? Are you a psychologist? Have we ever met?

 

[qdg2]

Even if your supplement doesn't provide pay for the non-productive week of training....

You are still a UPS employee and would be eligible for workers comp.

Smart guy like you should know this.

Based on your words......A UPS employee is eligible for workers comp under any and all circumstances? Can you show me where? You infer the simple fact of being an employee makes it so. If off the clock working is eligible(in this circumstance), why wouldn't anything else? Please explain exactly why.

So, being a BUG.......why isn't it paid? Smart guy like you should know the exact answer and know this. Bet a lot of other folks would too.

A smart guy like me has never been on comp. And as much as everyone rips drivers for working off the clock here on BC.....fair question I'd think.

Based on your words: A pkg driver reloading his pkg car before on the clock, gets hurt. He is eligible for workers comp? In my experience...he would more likely be fired.

 

[qdg2]

Not many hills around here but there are still signs banning it. They don't call it Jake Braking though. Is that a regional term?

Never saw it called that anywhere in the USA. Only "engine brake".