Peak 2014 coming soon.........

[ups1990]

It's frustrating to stand by and watch this great company not make the necessary decisions to properly handle and deal with what could be another heavy peak season.

This current hiring frenzy should have began in January in order to prepare these young drivers for the real workload. Why wait til early summer to beging training? It doesn't allow for one, to give UPS enough time to evaluate them all and some of these new drivers will pass probation that have no business driving a UPS trucks because its late in the game and we need bodies for Xmas.

It feels like when your NFL team is down by 14 late in the 3rd quarter and we keep giving to the fullback up the middle, frustrating!

 

[CHALLY9TX]

Our center has been hiring since January.


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[turdbrown]

ours have been hiring since last year and we are still short drivers!

 

[PiedmontSteward]

It's frustrating to stand by and watch this great company not make the necessary decisions to properly handle and deal with what could be another heavy peak season.

This current hiring frenzy should have began in January in order to prepare these young drivers for the real workload. Why wait til early summer to beging training? It doesn't allow for one, to give UPS enough time to evaluate them all and some of these new drivers will pass probation that have no business driving a UPS trucks because its late in the game and we need bodies for Xmas.

It feels like when your NFL team is down by 14 late in the 3rd quarter and we keep giving to the fullback up the middle, frustrating!

It's already here and our management team just doesn't know it yet. Still refusing to work doubles even when we have cartloads of service failures in the hub every night.

 

[upschuck]

ours have been hiring since last year and we are still short drivers!

Do you think tall drivers deliver faster?

 

[bleedinbrown58]

Do you think tall drivers deliver faster?

How tall are ya Froggy?

 

[upschuck]

How tall are ya Froggy?

People have asked me if I had played basketball quite a bit.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Do you think tall drivers deliver faster?

Not In a 500,when they keep cracking their skull,off the bulkhead!

 

[bleedinbrown58]

Not In a 500,when they keep cracking their skull,off the bulkhead!

Or if you lock yourself in the back of one! That'll ruin your SPORH...lol

 

[oldngray]

People have asked me if I had played basketball quite a bit.

leaping ability?

 

[BrownTexas]

I would think it is hard to train drivers when you have low seniority guys like myself that will hit them with a seniority grievance if I don't work and they train someone new. But they know better and let me work and sent the guys that won't file home.

 

[Brownslave688]

It's frustrating to stand by and watch this great company not make the necessary decisions to properly handle and deal with what could be another heavy peak season.

This current hiring frenzy should have began in January in order to prepare these young drivers for the real workload. Why wait til early summer to beging training? It doesn't allow for one, to give UPS enough time to evaluate them all and some of these new drivers will pass probation that have no business driving a UPS trucks because its late in the game and we need bodies for Xmas.

It feels like when your NFL team is down by 14 late in the 3rd quarter and we keep giving to the fullback up the middle, frustrating!

Most places lay off drivers after peak. Can't train new hires then. The current hiring spree started in late spring. If you don't get the gist of this job
In a few months you have no business doing it for a career anyway.

 

[Brownslave688]

Do you think tall drivers deliver faster?

Yes. Longer stride length.

 

[30 to life]

Yes. Longer stride length.

Do you think tall drivers deliver faster?

I am short but have a long third leg that gets in the way

 

[UnconTROLLed]

Am I the only one looking forward to peak? Seems like everyone's dreading it. I'd like to try for a 100 hour week this year...$3,700 before taxes for 22.3.

 

[Overpaid Union Thug]

I keep seeing people say that UPS is in a hiring frenzy. It doesn't do any good if the majority of the "new" drivers were already TCDs.

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[Brownslave688]

I keep seeing people say that UPS is in a hiring frenzy. It doesn't do any good if the majority of the "new" drivers were already TCDs.

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No TCD here. You all really need to vote that out next contract. Full time cover drivers work just fine here.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

I am short but have a long third leg that gets in the way

Tripod?

 

[BrownTexas]

No TCD here. You all really need to vote that out next contract. Full time cover drivers work just fine here.

Only good thing about being a TCD first is making more during progression.

 

[aiian]

I swear, the members of BC worry more about peak than UPS.

What would you like them to do? Lay us off so they can train a cavalry of rookies?