tt rodriguez
Member
That is the dream and I agree with you if you can survive long enough on $187 a week! Minus the union dues and the years it will take you to hopefully become a fully invested driver...
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That is the dream and I agree with you if you can survive long enough on $187 a week! Minus the union dues and the years it will take you to hopefully become a fully invested driver...
I had a job before I came to UPS, Because of the weird hours I was able to do both at the same time. I was making $100 a week at UPS. And the only reason I stayed was for the benefits while working my other job. Seven years later it was my turn to become a full-time package car driver. So my recommendation to people is if you are UPS part time make sure that you have another part-time job which is not difficult to do. Once your time is up become a driver and you can literally write your own paycheck.
UnconTROLLed
perfection
It has nothing to do with generation or "snowflake" or whatever other stupid rhetoric people use ...no one should want to be a package car driver, no kid ever said "Yeah I want to be the garbage man when I grow up!" either. It's uncool, get your education and do something worthwhile for a living. Lord, the egos of truck drivers is just stupidly out of control with the Teamsters.
UnconTROLLed
perfection
If it's a misload, I am sheeting as a misload. Of course any OMS on-car or center manager can change how it was sheeted, but it comes down to "working in the best interest of the employer" and the best interest is sheeting the package with integrity and not cheating the customer. Good luck firing me for doing the correct thing we were trained to do.
542thruNthru
Well-Known Member
In my local I agree the fees are not ridiculous but we only pay $100 for a initiation fee. $500 is absolutely ridiculous for a PT employee.
It has everything to do with the snowflake generation.
I know people with masters degrees that make way less than me honey. Nooooo, no kid in the world plays with trucks wishing they could drive one. We just had a new hire that was a six figured employee at another company. He used to travel, work from home on the weekends, and always be on call. He traded all of that in to become “just a truck driver”.
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Mr. Sir
Box slinger
That fact that someone coming out of 8+ year of college to make less than a delivery driver is ridiculous. Top rate drivers make more than some doctors for goodness sake..
Ridiculous for who?
Mr. Sir
Box slinger
For people with significantly harder jobs than a driver while not coming anywhere close to top rate pay and UPS benefits. Nothing against drivers.. I’m just saying
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Frankie's Friend
Guest
Please tell me what code I can use to sheet that as miss load.
Would that be "other, other"?
Or maybe Future?
If its not delivered corp training says it is missed.
Im not lying for anyone.
watdaflock?
Well-Known Member
How are the initiation fees used differently than monthly fees?
Harder jobs? I can wear a white coat and hand out Advil too.
BigUnionGuy
Got the T-Shirt
Mr. Sir
Box slinger
Just as anyone can deliver a box to a doorstep
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
Are you justifying a $500 initiation fee for a PTer?
1989
Well-Known Member
But then, the job isn’t just delivering a box to a doorstep.
Mr. Sir
Box slinger
Mr. Sir
Box slinger
what did I miss?
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Frankie's Friend
Guest
Dude, i had a route that averaged 115-140 del stops, 400 delivery pcs a day, and picked up 250. Highest del day was 528 pkgs. I delivered 100 pcs per hour for the first three hours (30-40 stops) while pulling a tp60....every day.
Dont minimize the work that metro drivers perform. In addition, rural routes deal with adverse weather way more than metro routes do. It is not just "taking a pkg to a door".
But, not everyone can do it for 14 hours.
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