Easiest Route in your Center

[cosmo1]

Not no more----all of them damn windmills have turned the retirement routes in to routes where it is hard to get back on time with your pickups.

Not your problem.

Come back late enough times and you'll lose work.

 

[Wally]

When do your bids come up?

Surely you have enough seniority to get one.

What do you mean by bids?

 

[cosmo1]

What do you mean by bids?

Some of us had/have the ability to pick a different route periodically.

It's nice.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Some of us had/have the ability to pick a different route periodically.

It's nice.

He was being sarcastic.

 

[hyena]

File what? My nails?

I already assumed that. Do you paint them to?

 

[Wally]

Some of us had/have the ability to pick a different route periodically.

It's nice.

Never heard of that.

We bid on a route and it's yours forever. When someone leave, it goes up for bid again.

 

[trickpony1]

We bid on a route and it's yours forever. When someone leave, it goes up for bid again.

Does your contract language say this or a "backroom" agreement with the union?

 

[wide load]

Orion has made it so that all routes suck about the same.

But you make a poop load of cash!!!!

 

[cosmo1]

Never heard of that.

We bid on a route and it's yours forever. When someone leave, it goes up for bid again.

Sucks. That means if a route changes for the worse, you are stuck.

 

[3 done 3 to go]

Never heard of that.

We bid on a route and it's yours forever. When someone leave, it goes up for bid again.

Our bids are every 2 yrs. This coming February

 

[ManInBrown]

24 footer
30-35 deliveries
35-37 pickups
500 pieces out
500 pieces in
90% dock stops

 

[barnyard]

Does your contract language say this or a "backroom" agreement with the union?

That is the contract language in my local.

 

[barnyard]

Sucks. That means if a route changes for the worse, you are stuck.

Nope.

If work moves, the route holder can choose to follow the work. Or they could bid another route when it comes up or they could bid back to the extra board.

 

[rod]

Not no more----all of them damn windmills have turned the retirement routes in to routes where it is hard to get back on time with your pickups.

By "windmill " do you mean runner gunners? If so by you bragging that you did 75 stops in 45 minutes with the help of your on car you must be the HEAD windmill of your center.

 

[cosmo1]

Nope.

If work moves, the route holder can choose to follow the work. Or they could bid another route when it comes up or they could bid back to the extra board.

I understand if work moves.

But, if the core of a permanently bid route suddenly explodes with heavy bulk or large office/apartment complexes, the bid driver may be screwed.

A couple years before I retired, my easy, mostly rural route had a large influx of gas field companies. It sucked. Thankfully, I didn't have to wait for a bid year because I was leaving.



We didn't have and 'extra board.' You were a full time driver whether you were a bid driver or a cover driver. Cover drivers were only those without a bid route.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I understand if work moves.

But, if the core of a permanently bid route suddenly explodes with heavy bulk or large office/apartment complexes, the bid driver may be screwed.

A couple years before I retired, my easy, mostly rural route had a large influx of gas field companies. It sucked. Thankfully, I didn't have to wait for a bid year because I was leaving.



We didn't have and 'extra board.' You were a full time driver whether you were a bid driver or a cover driver. Cover drivers were only those without a bid route.

We are having the same issue here with the wind farms.

 

[Wally]

Does your contract language say this or a "backroom" agreement with the union?

I really don't know. We just do it this way here.

Feeders do bid one a year though.

 

[WayBill]

Orion has made it so that all routes suck about the same.

This is the case at our hub too.

 

[barnyard]

We didn't have and 'extra board.' You were a full time driver whether you were a bid driver or a cover driver.

Extra board/cover driver=same thing

 

[1989]

In my experience all routes are basically the same. But the time studies vary by as much as 2 hours.