Future of PVD

[Rack em]

Seasonal Personal Vehicle Package Driver at UNITED PARCEL SERVICE

Union better step in ASAP!

 

[Rack em]

If the union allows this bull, I will stop paying union dues.

 

[35years]

Seasonal Personal Vehicle Package Driver at UNITED PARCEL SERVICE

File if they touch one box.
The job listings for this job are all over the country.
Our local is standing firm.
As of this week, the International is not allowing it.

 

[1989]

Don't think it's just a rumor. I remember our center manager saying something about this last month. I pray our union puts a stop to this idea, because it will eliminate more and more union jobs! This is definitely something to strike over!

I don't think local 2 has much pull.

 

[Box Ox]

So if the vehicle weight limit for PVD folks is 10,000 lbs, that'd be "Class 2". A little bigger than a Prius!

 

[1989]

Their packages will be shuttled to a satellite location and left in a storage locker or perhaps a supervisor's garage

Have delivered out of a storage unit several times. The storage company usually doesn't want us back the next year.

 

[baklava]

"Last Wednesday, 9/13/17, I received an e-commerce delivery from a contracted delivery driver. He was un-uniformed, wearing a T-shirt, shorts, and sneakers. The delivery was completely unremarkable and I was a satisfied consumer. Maybe this driver made $12 an hour and probably has no benefits. My UPS driver makes between $25 and $35 per hour, has outstanding benefits and a generous pension. In other words, my UPS driver makes a living wage and that is why I believe my UPS driver is probably going away. I simply do not see how UPS can continue to support their drivers with generous salary and benefits while their competition pays contracted drivers less than half of what a UPS driver earns."

Exactly what I've been growing more and more afraid of the past couple of years. I'm a top-rate driver, and I make more than any of my friends that graduated from college, but at 34 years of age I'm starting to consider another career before I get too old, maybe construction or police officer. We will survive this contract, but the next? And the one after? Outlook not so good.

 

[35years]

GOOD TO GO

 

[Edups]

Hey guys just had to chime in. I retired two years ago in the south central area (Texas) after 34 yrs. and I can't believe what I'm reading about this SPVD thing. All I can say is that I enjoyed the job till about 04, this was about the time private stock holders started changing things to a numbers game instead of image, service, and all the things that made UPS great, and the preferred Delivery Co. No one could match us!! It really hurt to see the co. Make some of the decisions they made post public stock, to the point that the last couple of years I was there was truly a struggle. What I can't understand is that UPS is so diversified and powerful, why do they have to even consider something as this SPVD thing? Let's take care of what we have, and what got us to where we are. The customer that writes our paycheck!!!

 

[Indecisi0n]

Do PVDs have to follow Orion?

 

[TearsInRain]

Have delivered out of a storage unit several times. The storage company usually doesn't want us back the next year.

unless you guys are acting like complete bags, i've never heard of a storage company not wanting our business year over year

 

[DOK]

I bet within 5 years 50% or more of our small residential packages will be delivered by PVD year round. Anyone agree?

There is no future in PVD, it's just like the drone delivery stuff. The earth is flat too.

 

[PASinterference]

I see this as another surepost in the making. Anyone remember when surepost first came out? "Oh it's only for Lane Bryant and Gevalia coffee, that's all". Riiiiiiiight.

The funny part is how the rumors spread through mgmt. Anybody remember the one from back in the 90's where ups was going to change the name to Worldwide Delivery Service to nullify the contract? Funny as hell because every sup acted like he thought of it.

 

[oldngray]

I see this as another surepost in the making. Anyone remember when surepost first came out? "Oh it's only for Lane Bryant and Gevalia coffee, that's all". Riiiiiiiight.

The funny part is how the rumors spread through mgmt. Anybody remember the one from back in the 90's where ups was going to change the name to Worldwide Delivery Service to nullify the contract? Funny as hell because every sup acted like he thought of it.

Almost as funny as the FedEx merging with UPS joke.

 

[Future]

Almost as funny as the FedEx merging with UPS joke.

 

[1989]

unless you guys are acting like complete bags, i've never heard of a storage company not wanting our business year over year

They didn't care for the traffic. The little bit we paid wasn't enough.

 

[Brownslave688]

They didn't care for the traffic. The little bit we paid wasn't enough.

Kind of like all of our access points.

 

[Operational needs]

Is it me or is this just another rumor? Seems like a lot of things get said on BC about what the company is "planning".

If this was a good idea, wouldn't FedEx, with no union protection, already be doing this?

FedEx Ground DID do this last Peak. The Ground contractors were up in arms about it because I think they were paying the people $20 an hour. Am I right @bbsam?

 

[Wally]

The union will do what about this?

 

[bbsam]

FedEx Ground DID do this last Peak. The Ground contractors were up in arms about it because I think they were paying the people $20 an hour. Am I right @bbsam?

That is correct. Ok for Ground, disqualifying for contractor.