Combination Drivers could be working long days.
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UnconTROLLed
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In New england, taking a W-S job, it'd be 1.5x for all hours worked on Sunday, since I am grandfathered. I also made 1.5x on Sundays, my regular scheduled day, being S-Thu.So basically a CD could get 50+ hours per week....working Wed-Sun....long days…..remember that one and half hour gap between that 10+ hour day.
On the other hand....a RPCD might only get 3 days worth of work.....Wed-Fri.
That is also 2.25x for Sunday, over 10 hours worked.
I'd be making more than regular package drivers.
YES vote here, without question.
UnconTROLLed
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There simply isn't enough work during the week to do 240/460, (or whatever " in the red" type numbers) the exception being Saturday and Sunday. I am pretty sure the 22.4's will work inside, generally, during weekdays, then get porked on the weekend.
Indecisi0n
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Probably better looking in the kitchen.
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Indecisi0n
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Get them to mow the lawn
Doubleparkedrunner
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there's a big difference between OT and Excessive OT. Mostly, the drivers complain about the latter. Really , all it would take to relieve excessive overtime would be to add one more driver per four or five trucks , depending on the numbers.
Add a driver who takes between 25 and 40 stops off of between 4 and 5 drivers ( depending on city, resi, and country routes ) and you should solve the problem.
If UPS truly was doing this just for relieving excessive OT then this is the easy fix.
john chesney
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Just because the union proposed it doesn’t mean it was their idea. Lots of behind the scenes stuff we’ll never know about goes on
If you read the proposed language at least they are getting the 8 hr 5day pay. Regular drivers language states 8 hrs a day, 5 days....if there is work.
Combination drivers (CD) are not being given "9.5 protection"
I can see a CD coming in at 8AM, delivering EAM and then NDA and ground, working until 1PM....five hours. Then taking the 1.5 hour "down time" (gap)
Then back to work at 2:30pm....helping out struggling drivers, then it is on to pickups.
Back to the building at say around 7:30pm....another five hours.
So basically a ten hour day between 8am and 7:30pm.....at a lower pay rate to boot!
trickpony1
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Sure...and how long do you think it will take for management to start crying, "...there's no work...".
This is just the first step in making sure new full tome drivers NEVER see full pay and get worked so hard they get injured or quit allowing UPS to hire at lower pay again and again. Some people may want lots of overtime but that should be on a case by case basis, so not everyone one gets hammered.
retiredTxfeeder
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Saturday I saw a driver out delivering at 8:15pm. I live in kind of a rural area, about 30-35 minutes from the center he works out of. I thought to myself, that would be the hybrid driver of the future, making a lower rate, and maxed out on stops, every weekend.
I was hired back in may 2018 to be a Tuesday thru Saturday driver so does the new contract language state that al drivers tues thru sat will go back to mon thru fri is that correct
if so that woud be great anyone have any insight or info on that
Guess we will find out more tomorrow
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KoennenTiger
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I see you guys complaining about this but before I got to go full time I was a utility TCD driver with no progression who would regularly cover routes for guys who went feeder but didn't have a feeder route or they would send me on splits with 240 resi stops throughout 3 counties getting 180 miles and working 12s. Every day.
Afaic at least now these guys will be on the combo progression.
Oh and real news the full timers were still getting
on with their so hard 10 hour days. None of them were losing their jobs. Took me a long time to realize why they called me a utilabuse driver. I was just happy to not be working a second job after preload. At least I was getting overtime for my 12 hour days.
Afaic at least now these guys will be on the combo progression.
Oh and real news the full timers were still getting
on with their so hard 10 hour days. None of them were losing their jobs. Took me a long time to realize why they called me a utilabuse driver. I was just happy to not be working a second job after preload. At least I was getting overtime for my 12 hour days.
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MenInBrown
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They put that in there bc on Monday and Tuesday half of the RPCDs will be laid off.
With that being said, with the language the way it is now, would those RPCDs have first dibs on Saturday and Sunday?
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