Full time delivery driver position questions

[applez]

Hi, i'm looking into trying to apply for a full time delivery driver job, currently all i see if full time seasonal driver. How difficult is it to acquire a full time year round position? What is the best route to acquire that position? Ive already been reading that you cant move out of state and transfer to an opening while keeping you seniority, if you have worked within the company and move out of state how difficult is it to reaquire a full time delivery job?

 

[charm299]

Hi, i'm looking into trying to apply for a full time delivery driver job, currently all i see if full time seasonal driver. How difficult is it to acquire a full time year round position? What is the best route to acquire that position? Ive already been reading that you cant move out of state and transfer to an opening while keeping you seniority, if you have worked within the company and move out of state how difficult is it to reaquire a full time delivery job?

Depends on where you at. At my center you have to work part time for a few years before u get a full time position

 

[applez]

Depends on where you at. At my center you have to work part time for a few years before u get a full time position

On average how many hours a week were you doing? and did working durning peak season make up for not having 40 hours a week?

 

[MECH-lift]

On average how many hours a week were you doing? and did working durning peak season make up for not having 40 hours a week?

You want to get hired inside first then wait to drive...it could take weeks, or it may take years. The nice apples on the tree get picked and kept but the bruised and ugly ones get thrown away. Its similar to the UPS hiring process.

 

[charm299]

On average how many hours a week were you doing? and did working durning peak season make up for not having 40 hours a week?

You don’t work as a part time driver, you get rehired as a preloader then you can sign the sheets to be a driver but you have to wait for seniority to catch up to you

 

[applez]

You don’t work as a part time driver, you get rehired as a preloader then you can sign the sheets to be a driver but you have to wait for seniority to catch up to you

is preloader the same as package handler?

 

[quad decade guy]

is preloader the same as package handler?

Part time is part time

 

[Shift Inhibit]

Part time is part time

Sorry but loading pkg cars & working in small sort are completely different jobs (both under the preload umbrella) .

 

[applez]

i guess im trying to figure out how much you can earn a week with these inside part time jobs, maybe pick up a second part time job or something

 

[Shift Inhibit]

Part time is part time

For being here 40 yrs, you sure are misinformed.

 

[quad decade guy]

Sorry but loading pkg cars & working in small sort are completely different jobs (both under the preload umbrella) .

Ok. But both part time? Yes?

 

[Shift Inhibit]

Yes, but some part timers get 35-40 hrs per week

 

[applez]

so moving out of state and hoping to a get is a real gamble 35 is fine but 20 isnt great

 

[quad decade guy]

For being here 40 yrs, you sure are misinformed.

Don't bid lists revolve around seniority? Say a carwash doesn't trump unloader? Doesn't a 20 year PT unloader outbid a 19 year PT whatever?

 

[quad decade guy]

Yes, but some part timers get 35-40 hrs per week

Ok but they are PART TIME.

 

[Fido]

Ok but they are PART TIME.

If we are full time wouldn’t it be called, half time?

 

[quad decade guy]

Sorry but loading pkg cars & working in small sort are completely different jobs (both under the preload umbrella) .

yeah part-time. Same pig, different bow.

 

[quad decade guy]

If we are full time wouldn’t it be called, half time?

No. They are part time.

 

[Fido]

No. They are part time.

I like half time better

 

[MECH-lift]

These damn millennials just want everything overnight , YOU START AT THE BOTTOM LIKE EVERYONE ELSE