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<blockquote data-quote="Doubleparkedrunner" data-source="post: 4556729" data-attributes="member: 71878">I don&#039;t know how the training at ground is from hub to hub across the country but as far as&nbsp; training with my employer/contractor&nbsp; at ground went , it was almost non existent.&nbsp; My contractor was a very nice guy and good to work for but on a scale of 1 to 100 as far as training goes ;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; FedEx would be seriously&nbsp; like a 7 while UPS would be like an 85 to 90.&nbsp; At ground, I had a senior driver show me the route a couple days and was basically handed the keys and at UPS I had to go through so many hoops , you would have thought I was trying out to be an astronaut.&nbsp; For me personally, I am a tough minded individual that almost always gets good at whatever I set my mind to so UPS training never scared or intimidated me in the least.&nbsp;&nbsp; But I will say, that if I had never driven at ground before going to UPS , I may have not made the cut at UPS....NOT because fedex ground training helped me but that I was there long enough to realize that I actually liked this line of work and once I realized I would consider doing this as a career , I started looking around to the best options out there and UPS was a nobrainer choice.&nbsp;There was no way I was going to keep doing a job for 35 k a year when I could do the &quot;same job&quot; for a 100 k plus.&nbsp;I was very lucky in that I didn&#039;t want to do this line of work but went to the ground interview as I was in between jobs and fully expected to say thanx but no thanx to the contractor who hired me upon initially meeting him.&nbsp; But I figured id give it a try just for kicks just in case it was better than I thought.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; It took about two months of driving to get the real hang of it at ground but once I did, I loved it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Doubleparkedrunner, post: 4556729, member: 71878"] I don't know how the training at ground is from hub to hub across the country but as far as training with my employer/contractor at ground went , it was almost non existent. My contractor was a very nice guy and good to work for but on a scale of 1 to 100 as far as training goes ; FedEx would be seriously like a 7 while UPS would be like an 85 to 90. At ground, I had a senior driver show me the route a couple days and was basically handed the keys and at UPS I had to go through so many hoops , you would have thought I was trying out to be an astronaut. For me personally, I am a tough minded individual that almost always gets good at whatever I set my mind to so UPS training never scared or intimidated me in the least. But I will say, that if I had never driven at ground before going to UPS , I may have not made the cut at UPS. ...NOT because fedex ground training helped me but that I was there long enough to realize that I actually liked this line of work and once I realized I would consider doing this as a career , I started looking around to the best options out there and UPS was a nobrainer choice. There was no way I was going to keep doing a job for 35 k a year when I could do the "same job" for a 100 k plus. I was very lucky in that I didn't want to do this line of work but went to the ground interview as I was in between jobs and fully expected to say thanx but no thanx to the contractor who hired me upon initially meeting him. But I figured id give it a try just for kicks just in case it was better than I thought. It took about two months of driving to get the real hang of it at ground but once I did, I loved it. [/QUOTE]

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