Current UPS culture

[Foamer Pyle]

More tedious, not harder.

I can deliver boxes all day out of these low step, power steering, Cadillacs, and my knees, and shoulders don’t hurt a bit.

 

[burrheadd]

The old 700’s your talking about do have a low step. The old 8’s and thousands were nasty. And the side door was about 1/4 narrower, it was a lot harder to get bulk out the side doors. We didn’t have as much bulk when I started, I do remember doing a lot of paper though. Cases and cases of paper everyday to every office it seemed like.

I had a law office on the 2nd floor of an office building had a little antique elevator I would load that sob full of paper hit the button and go up the stairs and unload it

One day I load it extra full burns up the motor about half way up and it stuck there took a couple days to get it going

They tried to get UPS to pay the bill

Bad part was after that I had to 2 wheel that up the stairs

 

[burrheadd]

No they ing can't. I've even gone to my union about it. They said there is nothing that can be done. Every local is different.

Wrong

I’ve seen it happen

 

[SolidWoodPanel]

Told some younghead who's up for qualifying later this summer to vote no. He liked at me like he was smoking peyote. Hope the never makes full-time and gets stuck in the lower paid hybrid position for ten years.

 

[542thruNthru]

Wrong

I’ve seen it happen

I don't understand how these locals can tell people No when it's plain as day in the contract. No where does it say "excluding driver in progression"

 

[burrheadd]

I don't understand how these locals can tell people No when it's plain as day in the contract. No where does it say "excluding driver in progression"

Don’t want to rock the boat

 

[Old Man Jingles]

I don’t rememeber exactly how many stops i averaged 25 years ago, all i know is the job was harder because of the crap equipment, and paper.

We had a lot more freedom though.
I was a swing driver and consequently had a different route everyday. Running blind back then was definitely running blind.

 

[PT Car Washer]

We had a lot more freedom though.
I was a swing driver and consequently had a different route everyday. Running blind back then was definitely running blind.

No smart phones or GPS gadgets to help find a difficult address. Just sheet it UTL, unable to locate.

 

[542thruNthru]

We had a lot more freedom though.
I was a swing driver and consequently had a different route everyday. Running blind back then was definitely running blind.

 

[Old Man Jingles]

No smart phones or GPS gadgets to help find a difficult address. Just sheet it UTL, unable to locate.

I forgot about UTL’s ... I had my fair share of those!

 

[Old Man Jingles]

Don’t want to rock the boat

Where’d you get that notion?
I know this song well but I couldn’t have come up with ‘Hues Corporation as the artist!

 

[Foamer Pyle]

50 lb weight limit. Even on a heavy industrial route you could walk through the middle of the truck after the first couple deliveries. No NDA, no guaranteed delivery dates. If you don't get it delivered today just try again tomorrow. Customer complaints? If you don't like our service go ship with someone else (post office).

I covered for an industrial route, and that car was jammed every day. When i started, the weight limit was 70 pounds. Yes, the packages were smaller, but they still managed to fill the cars up. I also used to do a residential route 25 years ago that went out with 190 stops every day.

 

[Foamer Pyle]

More tedious, not harder.

My right shoulder is still friend’d up from driving a non power steering car for 18 years. No cell phones, no gps, had to use a paper map when swing driving. Current generation wouldn’t know how to open a map.

 

[Rack em]

My right shoulder is still friend’d up from driving a non power steering car for 18 years. No cell phones, no gps, had to use a paper map when swing driving. Current generation wouldn’t know how to open a map.

I do too know how to open a map!!! It's the app with the "G" on it on my phone.