PVD

[brownIEman]

I love running routes out of rentals for exactly the reasons you mentioned. Our rentals are put on extended routes that usually go out with 35-60 stops. I literally have to talk myself out of quitting when I get stuck in-town during peak.

I can see that on a high ratio windshield time route.
In '13 I was part of a ready team that dug OKC out from an ice storm just before Christmas. I ran a tight suburban resi route of about 160-170 stops out of a U-haul. The kicker was because the building was too small for the number of routes we were running we had to run a second preload and did not leave the building till about 13:00. If your center ever asks you to do something like that, ask if the guy that gets his fingernails pulled out one by one position is already taken. I would have jumped at it had it been available...

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I suppose different areas run different ways. Centers in my district gave the rentals to the seasonals - If I tried putting a FT driver in a rental he'd be likely to kick me in the you know what. Yeah, they have AC and better heat and a radio but make for sucky resi running ( I know from experience). I honestly can't remember putting a FT driver in a rental unless it was a one off act of desperation - that would just be too much of a waste of an experienced driver. We gave our seasonals most of the Business and heavy bulk like surepost. The learning curve was just too steep with seasonals who had a hard enough time figuring out the DIAD much less a ton of resi neighborhood ins and outs.

Our center does the same------seasonals in U-Haul delivering Walmart, Target, the Post Office, etc.----stops that are easy to do and that allow the bid driver to concentrate on his/her work.

I normally lose Walmart, GameStop and the college. Save me at least an hour and gives the preloader room to properly load the car.

 

[BrownFlush]

Whatever....I will be gone in less than a year and you and Bug will be trying to save a union that is clearly on life support.

And no wonder . Those who could and should support the union have not .
I have been out 8 years but , what I know locally and read and hear about nationally , there has never been a time when there as been so company sucks in the rank and file .
There is no honor in weakness .

 

[centralpa]

saw a pvd out yesterday with 90 stops. talking about hammering them

 

[Rack em]

saw a pvd out yesterday with 90 stops. talking about hammering them

Good, let em fail. PVD's need to go away.

 

[scooby0048]

Good, let em fail. PVD's need to go away.

I hope the PVD program fails but I feel bad for the folks who are just trying to make a little extra jing for the holidays. Guy gets stuck he is on the hook for everything. UPS won't even call a tow truck for him. We go get his packages and he has to find a way to get a tow. There goes his pay for the week.

 

[Rack em]

I hope the PVD program fails but I feel bad for the folks who are just trying to make a little extra jing for the holidays. Guy gets stuck he is on the hook for everything. UPS won't even call a tow truck for him. We go get his packages and he has to find a way to get a tow. There goes his pay for the week.

Well I don't hope they get stuck or lose money, I just hope Ups realized the idea is not going to work.

But I asked my sup today how they pay the PVDs and apparently they are guaranteed 8 hours a day, $18.75 wage, $.50 a mile and that's actual miles, not projected miles. They should be raking in the money!

 

[scooby0048]

Well I don't hope they get stuck or lose money, I just hope Ups realized the idea is not going to work.

But I asked my sup today how they pay the PVDs and apparently they are guaranteed 8 hours a day, $18.75 wage, $.50 a mile and that's actual miles, not projected miles. They should be raking in the money!

I had no idea they were guaranteed 8hrs.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

$18.75/hr

$.78/mile

No daily guarantee.

 

[Rack em]

$18.75/hr

$.78/mile

No daily guarantee.

Not according to my supervisor. 8 hour guarantee for the PVDs here.

 

[scooby0048]

$18.75/hr

$.78/mile

No daily guarantee.

Not according to my supervisor. 8 hour guarantee for the PVDs here.

That's got to be a local thing. (the 8hr guarantee) Dave's PVDs are getting .78 mile. I was told our guys are getting .51 a mile.

 

[Rack em]

That's got to be a local thing. (the 8hr guarantee) Dave's PVDs are getting .78 mile. I was told our guys are getting .51 a mile.

Haha even the PVDs have different supplements.

 

[scooby0048]

Haha even the PVDs have different supplements.

The only thing consistent with this place is there is no consistency.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

That's got to be a local thing. (the 8hr guarantee) Dave's PVDs are getting .78 mile. I was told our guys are getting .51 a mile.

The IRS mileage reimbursement rate for 2017 is 53.5 cents per mile.

 

[rod]

That's got to be a local thing. (the 8hr guarantee) Dave's PVDs are getting .78 mile. I was told our guys are getting .51 a mile.

everything is different in the BOG.