Does anyone successfully load then drive?

[Throwaway12345432101]

Going from 60-70 hours a week during peak to the regularly scheduled 15 hours a week is a hard adjustment. There are delivery routes open at my hub but there is a frustrating company policy saying no one can load trucks then drive a route. Has anyone here been successful in getting around this rule?

 

[Star B]

huh? I think you're lost. I load my truck and then drive every day... I mean... thats how Express rolls.

 

[Throwaway12345432101]

Sorry. I didn't explain myself clearly in the opening post. I meant, working the inbound shift as a Package Handler from 4-7am then driving a route. That route can be either Ground or HD. If you're Ground then your truck is already loaded but if you're HD then you simply transition over to your carts to load your van before leaving.

 

[dezguy]

I load my truck every day and then drive.

The old saying about masterbating is no one gets me off like me. In this case, no one loads my truck the way I like, like me.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I load my truck every day and then drive.

The old saying about masterbating is no one gets me off like me. In this case, no one loads my truck the way I like, like me.

So you are saying that you prefer to take matters in to your own hands?

 

[It will be fine]

Sorry. I didn't explain myself clearly in the opening post. I meant, working the inbound shift as a Package Handler from 4-7am then driving a route. That route can be either Ground or HD. If you're Ground then your truck is already loaded but if you're HD then you simply transition over to your carts to load your van before leaving.

You can't be a ground package handler and a contractor's driver at the same time. It blurs the line between who's employee you are.

 

[Throwaway12345432101]

You can't be a ground package handler and a contractor's driver at the same time. It blurs the line between who's employee you are.

I don't understand. They are two distinct employers? You clock out as a Package Handler then clock in as a Driver. Something I find interesting that will probably get unnoticed in this thread is that if you talk with upper management of most hubs. They will tell you that when they were a package handler they also drove. Which was beneficial to them in the long run because they experienced first hand what both jobs entail. Something people can't do these days.

 

[Catatonic]

Going from 60-70 hours a week during peak to the regularly scheduled 15 hours a week is a hard adjustment. There are delivery routes open at my hub but there is a frustrating company policy saying no one can load trucks then drive a route. Has anyone here been successful in getting around this rule?

That is not a UPS company policy ... that is a local UPS management decision.

 

[Throwaway12345432101]

That is not a company policy ... that is a local management decision.

Are you sure?

 

[Star B]

You can't be a ground package handler and a contractor's driver at the same time. It blurs the line between who's employee you are.

Is this some stupid FXG logic? You clock out as a handler, you clock in as an employee of the contractor. There's no confusion on who you are working for. Who's clock are you on? That is the employer your working for....

 

[vantexan]

You can't be a ground package handler and a contractor's driver at the same time. It blurs the line between who's employee you are.

That's a hoot!

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

That is not a company policy ... that is a local management decision.

Happens in many centers ... especially smaller outlying centers.

Please look at what forum you are in.

 

[Catatonic]

Please look at what forum you are in.

I was in Brown Cafe ... how the hell did I get into the Purple Drive-in?
Site's still messed up!

 

[It will be fine]

Is this some stupid FXG logic? You clock out as a handler, you clock in as an employee of the contractor. There's no confusion on who you are working for. Who's clock are you on? That is the employer your working for....

That works until you get hurt and the contractor tells you to show up as a package handler and file a comp claim against fedex.

 

[Cactus]

Please look at what forum you are in.

You need to take your own advice.

Seriously.

 

[Catatonic]

You need to take your own advice.

Seriously.

Sorry.
My venture in here was by mistake.

 

[Route 66]

Sorry.
My venture in here was by mistake.

Mine too!!!

 

[MAKAVELI]

Going from 60-70 hours a week during peak to the regularly scheduled 15 hours a week is a hard adjustment. There are delivery routes open at my hub but there is a frustrating company policy saying no one can load trucks then drive a route. Has anyone here been successful in getting around this rule?

At Ground you probably would run into DOT HOS violations anyway. But then again I'm sure your contractor probably would just falsify those records..........

 

[dezguy]

So you are saying that you prefer to take matters in to your own hands?

If the wife isn't around, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.

 

[BootsOnTarmac]

Throwaway what is your official Job Title? What are you being paid to do? Are you A FedEx Handler or a Driver? WTF!