Quit Being a Package Car Driver and Start Driving With Roadie Instead

[Commercial Inside Release]

Roadie was part of UPS since September 10th, 2021 (when the deal was finalized.)

 

[Commercial Inside Release]

Some history...
UPS writes an app for PVDs.
Hoffa&Co do nothing.
UPS hires a small force of PVDs.
Hoffa&Co write a stern memo.
UPS hires thousands of PVDs, and cuts the hours of part timers.
Union threatens some kind of hearing, and potential action.
UPS uses PVDs during COVID with impunity.
Union closes most of its offices, and jumps on the opportunity to have an extended Covid-cation.

UPS double down, and buys Roadie.
Union is silent on the matter.
UPS hires even more PVDs for holidays
New union leadership runs on a anti-PVD platform
UPS reduces PVDs as COVID eases
Union is locked out of offices and files by election losers & Hoffa people leaving
UPS advertises for 50,000 PVDs to sign up
New union leaders are silent.
UPS starts pushing Roadie and perfects it's app to run on any mobile device.

Current PVD job openings 1551 (represents multiple hires per center)
So, in reality another 15,000

Current Package Car Driver positions 178 (represents only 178 actual jobs.)

 

[ManInBrown]

Good luck with that.
They can barely get it done with experienced people

Plus you saw it had people too drive a tractor trailers, fly to airplanes, unload the trucks, load the trucks.

If we go out it's going to be a disaster

If we do strike, will the pilots honor it?

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

If we do strike, will the pilots honor it?

Absolutely they will
They are not allowed to move struck goods

 

[Yolo]

Roadie has nothing to do with the us. They are not moving UPS parcels.

 

[pkgdriver]

Sounds to me like same day Amazon delivery or that same day service UPS had back in the day….Sonic? Done by outside contractors.

Yep…been around for a while. Signed up for it a year or two ago. Keep on moving….nothing to see here. Same day pharma,Home Depot, Tractor Supply…missorted luggage for Delta etc.

 

[Brown287]

I’m not a 100% sure but I believe this is an Uber/DoorDash type service/app that the company is planning to use as a pay to use deliver of clerk and access point packages. My buildings clerk steward was part of a meeting discussing this.

 

[ThePackageDeli]

It will look better on our resume for our job to have been dissolved by UPS rather than for us to quit or be fired. I hope package car drivers are eliminated. It's a golden handcuff turn-you-into-a-drone-robot kind of work.
Eliminate UPS Drivers and hire 3,000,000 PVD drivers! Do it now! muhaha

 

[HavenoEDD]

Roadie - A UPS Company

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No more late airs!

 

[olroadbeech]

I could have been a roadie for neil young around 1976 or so. A friend of mine's uncle was the road manager.

I was a lifeguard for 4 summers and enjoyed that too much.

 

[SorryLazyPOS]

I could have been a roadie for neil young around 1976 or so. A friend of mine's uncle was the road manager.

I was a lifeguard for 4 summers and enjoyed that too much.

Which part was the best? Speedos?

 

[PreTrippin’]

Which part was the best? Speedos?

Speedos are always the best.

 

[SorryLazyPOS]

Speedos are always the best.

What about no speedos?

 

[PreTrippin’]

What about no speedos?

I dunno things could get ugly real quick.

 

[SorryLazyPOS]

I dunno things could get ugly real quick.

Yeah it would probably be a little too hard to see.