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PT Car Washer

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When I started the lowest paid supervisor had to make more than the highest paid driver

I guarantee you that's not the case anymore
Not sure if that was true or not. Maybe if you count their MIP but they were also at the building 12 hours a day. Not sure what they did all day after the drivers left and before they came back.
 

Trucker Clock

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“basically has learned everything”

Um you want to clean that up or clarify?

OK. I'll clarify it.

Within the first 30 days, a driver learned


How to use the DIAD
How to enter/exit the package car
What the next stop is by using Orion
How to select the next package
How to safely deliver that package
How to do pickups
How to load those pickups into the package car
How to drive safely

Am I missing anything? Maybe over the next several months they may pick up a little speed delivering, but there is not much else to learn or practice. Maybe area knowledge. We drive a truck and deliver cardboard. Sometimes long hours and sometimes in the heat of the summer.
 

Pullman Brown

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OK. I'll clarify it.

Within the first 30 days, a driver learned


How to use the DIAD
How to enter/exit the package car
What the next stop is by using Orion
How to select the next package
How to safely deliver that package
How to do pickups
How to load those pickups into the package car
How to drive safely

Am I missing anything? Maybe over the next several months they may pick up a little speed delivering, but there is not much else to learn or practice. Maybe area knowledge. We drive a truck and deliver cardboard. Sometimes long hours and sometimes in the heat of the summer.

After the 30 days..

The driver learns to put a COD in an envelope and scan it.

The driver learns that pm dispatch is a real thing.

The driver learns how to pull out of the building without tearing up a truck, trust me that hasn’t automatically happened.

The driver learns to put your seatbelt over your steering wheel to save your shoulder.

The driver is learning to throw hazmat papers out of slot.

The driver learns that on some trucks the last number of trucks open extra key slot.

And on and on. Just be fair.
 

NAHimGOOD

Nothing to see here.... Move along.
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Re-Raise

Well-Known Member
True, and I think you see my point. Anyone can be a UPS driver. Not everyone can be an electrician, plumber, etc. They need a very special skillset. We don't. We just have long hours and harassment. But we make over $40/hr at full rate.
Why couldn’t someone learn those jobs? The people that went into those trades were not the brightest kids I went to school with.

They went to college and became doctors and lawyers

Most plumbers and electricians I know couldn’t physically handle a day delivering for UPS.
 

Fido

Don’t worry he’s friendly
Well if it is so easy doing our job and earning $100k+ why is it so difficult for people to sign up and actually become package car drivers? We make less than other trades who have 4 year journeyman programs like electricians, plumbers or sheet metal workers. They can say all they want about how much we earn it’s not easy and not glamorous. Peak, rain, snow, heat yeah it’s really easy work.
Because preload sucks ass
 

PT Car Washer

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And if I go in the spring they get the MIP bonus

And I think next year after contract you're going to see a lot of hours leave also
I agree. And will be replaced by $20/hr 22.4 delivery drivers. Once UPS and the Teamster opened the door on a two tier wage delivery driver classification, it will never close. Just expanded.
 

Thebrownblob

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I agree. And will be replaced by $20/hr 22.4 delivery drivers. Once UPS and the Teamster opened the door on a two tier wage delivery driver classification, it will never close. Just expanded.
Perhaps it won’t close, but it will not expand, although I think you may underestimate the companies satisfaction with 22.4. They may well want it gone.
 
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