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<blockquote data-quote="HomeDelivery" data-source="post: 972251" data-attributes="member: 33696">well, that&#039;s for the drivers who are paid a flat rate by the day. If they&#039;re going to get more work, they should demand from their boss for an additional rate after a set number of stops...the one terminal that i recently worked from this Saturday had a bunch of hourly TEMP drivers from the past peak season to help deliver those perishable packages (flowers and chocolates/ fruit baskets).-----------------------------------------I was dumb enough to sign up with a former contractor, but he paid me by the stop; however, i was kinda overloaded when compared to the temp drivers&#039; loads (they only had 60 stops or so while i had close to 140). I came in early at 0630, the truck wasn&#039;t ready for me, so i had to get a rental &amp; set it up &amp; fuel it. Then as you know we don&#039;t get paid to load/sort our own vehicles. I wasn&#039;t out of the terminal until 0900 due to heavy volume and late arrivals for the presort.~40% of my load was for flowers &amp; perishables. I was lucky none of them was for a business address closed on a Saturday. Some houses i had to run it to the backdoor / side door or a passer-by may steal the package for themselves... driving blind &amp; having a poor turn-by-turn sequencing pushed my stops per road hour down to 11 &amp; some misplots push my end time to 2100. I couldn&#039;t skip trace because I had a box truck instead of a stepvan with a pass through to the cargo area (that was covered in my older thread about driving a rental).-----------------------------------------------------------------so a 14 hour day would get a ups driver how much when compared to a 6-year Home Delivery driver?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HomeDelivery, post: 972251, member: 33696"] well, that's for the drivers who are paid a flat rate by the day. If they're going to get more work, they should demand from their boss for an [B]additional rate[/B] after a set number of stops... the one terminal that i recently worked from this Saturday had a bunch of [B]hourly [/B]TEMP drivers from the past peak season to help deliver those perishable packages (flowers and chocolates/ fruit baskets). ----------------------------------------- I was dumb enough to sign up with a former contractor, but he paid me [B]by the stop[/B]; however, i was kinda overloaded when compared to the temp drivers' loads (they only had 60 stops or so while i had close to 140). I came in early at 0630, the truck wasn't ready for me, so i had to get a rental & set it up & fuel it. Then as you know we don't get paid to load/sort our own vehicles. I wasn't out of the terminal until 0900 due to heavy volume and late arrivals for the presort. ~40% of my load was for flowers & perishables. I was lucky none of them was for a business address closed on a Saturday. Some houses i had to run it to the backdoor / side door or a passer-by may steal the package for themselves... driving blind & having a poor turn-by-turn sequencing pushed my stops per road hour down to 11 & some misplots push my end time to 2100. I couldn't skip trace because I had a box truck instead of a stepvan with a pass through to the cargo area [I](that was covered in my older thread about driving a rental).[/I] ----------------------------------------------------------------- so a 14 hour day would get a ups driver how much when compared to a 6-year Home Delivery driver? [/QUOTE]

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