Peak has now become the easiest time of year.

[Michael Scott]

Agreed. Same out here in NJ. Our center doesn’t reward hard work and the guys that grasp that early in have the best careers. Doesn’t say we can’t try to deliver a good service though but the PVDs and casuals are doing the damage trying to impress this year like no other.

This peak it’s a case of helping the Saturday guys out but the scabs send the seasonals and PVDs to take everything off them. A few of us are no longer coming in so that some of the work stays on their trucks for some OT…and then it will be the SUP that wants to be home for dinner with the wife by 8pm BEGGING at PCM and DIAD for help.

The infamous “No driveways. We’ll deal with mailbox concerns, just get it off your truck” every day or so during peak makes me sick. Service..ha!

We would likely get a warning letter for leaving a package at a mailbox one time. Unless it was a crazy snow storm and the driveway was very long and not plowed.

 

[Blazian81]

Not everywhere no doubt, but it seems in most areas, we are oversaturated with resources that makes November and December the lightest paid days of the year. Tons of drivers not even seeing 8 hours. In the time since Black Friday and Cyber Monday, half the drivers in my center are barely getting 8, the other half 9-9.5 tops.
4 years ago and prior, it was 11-12 hour days.

We're also actually wrapping around start time right now which we don't do all year because of all the temporary preloaders.

PVDs are obviously the most dramatic change. UPS has taken this to the extreme leaving little available OT.

On top of that, with peak comes splitting your usual area in half simplifying your route vs the rest of the year. Plus, most large bulk stops going to rental truck routes.

And the other major change? Relaxed commits to the extreme. End of day for resi, and 3pm for business air. Just a few years ago, relaxed meant 12:00 commits which didn't help all that much.

So I guess it's time to start looking forward to peak every year now, instead of dreading the thought of it. It's a breeze now.

it not really a breeze when your hub hires a whole bunch of newbies to preload and your have aleast 300 misload a day in your hub, what a waste of money and time , just like the meme say hello Mr George, how much you pay for the new guy, 20 dollar thats too much, that what ups motto is and it not paying off with with all this miss services over here smdh

 

[MECH-lift]

god I’m going to miss peak

 

[MECH-lift]

We would likely get a warning letter for leaving a package at a mailbox one time. Unless it was a crazy snow storm and the driveway was very long and not plowed.

NO CHANCES MEANS NO CHANCES
@MECH-lift STYLE BABY

 

[Mr. Marshall]

I get it, BUT, the answer is more year round full time drivers. Not part time off the street yahoos.
Wait until one of these PVD's does something to hurt someone like the FedEx guy.

It's not like our drivers are going through some vetting process. That one thing the long wait to drive used to accomplish was to weed out most of the weirdos.

 

[pkgdriver]

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NO CHANCES MEANS NO CHANCES
@MECH-lift STYLE BABY

Real RPCDs would have left it on the ground and covered it up with some snow. Warning letter see ya in the office.

 

[pkgdriver]

Speaking of snow. I-80 near Donner Pass today.

 

[eats packages]

It's not like our drivers are going through some vetting process. That one thing the long wait to drive used to accomplish was to weed out most of the weirdos.

Feels like the opposite these days. Good folks staying in the hub. Nobody wants to lose them as a driver LOL.

 

[burrheadd]

It’s a bummer watching the reputation of excellence I’ve established on my route for eleven months getting destroyed

Lol, 11 whole months
Go gettum cowboy

 

[burrheadd]

Speaking of snow. I-80 near Donner Pass today.View attachment 410540

You didn’t see Olroad or @Frankie did you

 

[pkgdriver]

No…. The strip club wasnt open when I drove by this morning.

 

[Brownwind]

Lol, 11 whole months
Go gettum cowboy

Hee haw. Cowboy up..

I have over thirty four years in and have never seen anything like this. No pride in the way they do the job and no concern about the future. That’s all I was trying to convey. Appreciate your response

 

[Brownwind]

Lol, 11 whole months
Go gettum cowboy

Been on the route for about twenty years now

 

[burrheadd]

weeks.
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[burrheadd]

It’s a bummer watching the reputation of excellence I’ve established on my route for eleven months getting destroyed in a few weeks.

Which is it chief 20 years or 11 months
Can’t be both

Now beat it @Barney

 

[AKCoverMan]

Not everywhere no doubt, but it seems in most areas, we are oversaturated with resources that makes November and December the lightest paid days of the year. Tons of drivers not even seeing 8 hours. In the time since Black Friday and Cyber Monday, half the drivers in my center are barely getting 8, the other half 9-9.5 tops.
4 years ago and prior, it was 11-12 hour days.

We're also actually wrapping around start time right now which we don't do all year because of all the temporary preloaders.

PVDs are obviously the most dramatic change. UPS has taken this to the extreme leaving little available OT.

On top of that, with peak comes splitting your usual area in half simplifying your route vs the rest of the year. Plus, most large bulk stops going to rental truck routes.

And the other major change? Relaxed commits to the extreme. End of day for resi, and 3pm for business air. Just a few years ago, relaxed meant 12:00 commits which didn't help all that much.

So I guess it's time to start looking forward to peak every year now, instead of dreading the thought of it. It's a breeze now.

your management over planned and will be badly penalized by Their masters….next year you’ll be running out of hours by Thursday

 

[JL 0513]

your management over planned and will be badly penalized by Their masters….next year you’ll be running out of hours by Thursday

Definitely over planned but I think that's how corporate wants it at peak now. It seems the majority of the country is running low (for peak) paid days, with pockets of trouble areas due to quiting PVDs and such.

Two weeks out from Christmas and I had 44 hours this week. Thing is, that is from 6 "full" working days.

 

[DOK]

Not everywhere no doubt, but it seems in most areas, we are oversaturated with resources that makes November and December the lightest paid days of the year. Tons of drivers not even seeing 8 hours. In the time since Black Friday and Cyber Monday, half the drivers in my center are barely getting 8, the other half 9-9.5 tops.
4 years ago and prior, it was 11-12 hour days.

We're also actually wrapping around start time right now which we don't do all year because of all the temporary preloaders.

PVDs are obviously the most dramatic change. UPS has taken this to the extreme leaving little available OT.

On top of that, with peak comes splitting your usual area in half simplifying your route vs the rest of the year. Plus, most large bulk stops going to rental truck routes.

And the other major change? Relaxed commits to the extreme. End of day for resi, and 3pm for business air. Just a few years ago, relaxed meant 12:00 commits which didn't help all that much.

So I guess it's time to start looking forward to peak every year now, instead of dreading the thought of it. It's a breeze now.

Definitely a lot easier less stressful than the rest of the year.

 

[Brownwind]

Which is it chief 20 years or 11 months
Can’t be both

Now beat it @Barney

11 months since a PVD was on the route that I bid and have on for twenty years. Been with the company over 34 hrs Barney.

Sorry for the confusion

 

[MECH-lift]

Can’t believe they’re trying to butter us up for the new contract with an easy peak…

DONT BE FOOLED UNION BROTHERS
YOU KNOW BETTER