Extended Area routes to run only 3 days per week?

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Yeah but you're a stud...... you can't compare that

Like I said put me somewhere else I won't like it but I will run it and I will not ask for help

 

[Wally]

 

[PoirotAtUPS]

I am posting on here because I have never heard of UPS servicing an area only 3 days/week.

Have any of you ever heard of any Extended Area, limited UPS service anywhere?

I am in NorCal, & I would have imagine than the rural states would have a lot of high mile, lower stop count routes.

If I don’t do EAMs, it would be 10.25 average paid, about .75 overallowed with 72-77 stops, 90-145 pieces over 165 miles. Aren’t there many rural routes like this?! Do these routes get run everyday?

This has been happening for over a year - it is now in tens of thousands of zip codes. The shipper pays a premiI’m to ship to a residential rural zip code. UPS then delivers the package later and complains about the cost.

 

[21_years_in]

@PoirotAtUPS Oh, yeah, I had forgotten about the Area Surcharges, which can be quite high (I have seen these while working the Customer Counter). This is an outrage!

 

[21_years_in]

In my case, the very bumpy roads appear to have had a severely detrimental effect on my lower back, so I should move on before this gets worse.

It is soul crushing to me because I got along with the customers and their dogs so famously. This is very, very sad for me! Who has ever heard of losing hundreds of dear friends at once?!

I had told the customers that I would be around until I retired, but I was making promises that my lower back couldn’t keep.

 

[21_years_in]

I thought about getting permission to work only three 11.5 hour shifts per week. This is 39.75 paid hrs of straight time, so just about what an inside employee makes.

However, this is still 60% of the previous pounding on my lower back, so it is a non-starter.

 

[burrheadd]

I don't disagree with you there. But I understand the old timers not wanting to play that game anymore also. I don't know about your center but where I came from getting everyone on board will probably never happen

You and the old timers have been institutionalized exactly what ups whole plan is. It must be working

 

[tourists24]

You and the old timers have been institutionalized exactly what ups whole plan is. It must be working

If you say so. I worked 33 years and did the best I could as a steward to represent my coworkers the best I could.

 

[rod]

The Union always told us that the company had the right to run their own business into the ground. I guess that plan is working.

 

[rod]

Rural Deferment was tried before and was proven to NOT work. I guess todays management never got the message.

 

[TheBrownNote]

I don't disagree with you there. But I understand the old timers not wanting to play that game anymore also. I don't know about your center but where I came from getting everyone on board will probably never happen

Fair piont!

 

[PreTrippin’]

In the majestic Local 104 we get first choice for the day off if our route gets cut rural deferred included some guys are stoked on this deal. Retirement route becomes every other day or once in a while when I feel like it and sometimes I’ll just stay home anyway route.

 

[PreTrippin’]

Rural Deferment was tried before and was proven to NOT work. I guess today’s management never got the message.

Somewhere in the ‘90s I believe. No they didn’t.

 

[tourists24]

Somewhere in the ‘90s I believe. No they didn’t.

That was the "remote" era. Kinda similar in some ways, but now it's on mega steroids lol

 

[KearsargeCoop]

That was the "remote" era. Kinda similar in some ways, but now it's on mega steroids lol

Yah I wasn't around UPS at that time but guys were telling me you'd do evens one day, and odds the next type situation?

 

[tourists24]

Yah I wasn't around UPS at that time but guys were telling me you'd do evens one day, and odds the next type situation?

Remote was initially set up so a rural driver could take a handful of stops from one area of their route and sheet it as "remote". Then after a day or two 5 stops could be 12 or so to make it make more sense to going into an area with more stops. Problem was management became the arbiter of what to remote to help them dispatch easier and take the decision making away from the driver. There were times I was instructed to remote 30 stops in city neighborhoods because I was over dispatched.

 

[Coldworld]

Hang in there, Good luck!

58 year old talking about over/under which isnt even associated with their original question....welcome to the Borg collective, we have cookies!!

 

[Coldworld]

Cut backs are happening to a lot of us. Especially higher seniority members. You may want to consider this a transition to retirement like I have done. $44/hr PT retirement job. Who could ask for a better deal?

REAL retirement or @PT Car Washer's "fake" retirement?!?!?

 

[SorryLazyPOS]

AOC "Better not Bigger"

Sounds like Carol married the right man.

 

[P£INinY0uR***UnionGuy8564]

Hi all. So my bid route is way out in the country & mountains. My daily routine is: I do EAMs for about 13 miles, then about 73-78 stops on my route for another 165 miles. My average day is just over 11.0 paid, and my overallowed averages about 1.0 hour over.

Corporate has said that they are only going to run my route Tues., Thurs. & Fri., presumably because UPS is paying about $550 in labor plus $100 in gas to deliver 1-2 EAMs and then the 90-145 pkgs that might come in for my route that day.

Dude. You should maybe file 9.5 and ask for 8 hour requests until you want to retire. Or if you want the OT go into feeders. This place is a piece of and will work you till you're cripple if you allow it.