Saturday Ground Ceasing, Saturday Air Drivers Coming Back In Some Buildings

[Wally]

Only when upstate posts

 

[Frankie's Friend]

It's only available for the initial post.

 

[Frankie's Friend]

Saturday's themselves may not be profitable. But because we do Saturday ground we may be receiving more volume $$ overall

Sundays ought to be really good then.

 

[Staydryitsraining]

If one considered the company proposed paying weekend drivers only 18.75, then one might assume Saturday is being cut, put on hold or sliced in half until it is decided what will happen in the contract. Saturdays arent profitable. Reis's need to be thick to make what they say is profit. Saturdays are drivers wasting time covering 4 different areas.

 

[PT Car Washer]

If one considered the company proposed paying weekend drivers only 18.75, then one might assume Saturday is being cut, put on hold or sliced in half until it is decided what will happen in the contract. Saturdays arent profitable. Reis's need to be thick to make what they say is profit. Saturdays are drivers wasting time covering 4 different areas.

All of our Saturday ground drivers are in their first or second year and make less then $20/hr. Kept our Saturday air drivers except they were bid as Tues thru Saturday EAM routes. Half of them make a lot more per hour then the Ground drivers.

 

[scratch]

Delivering single light weight packages to residential areas has never been profitable. I think we will continue Saturday Ground and I think the company is going to get into Sunday delivery as well.

 

[allahuakbar]

If Saturday’s aren’t profitable then why would they be recruiting for Sunday’s?

 

[clean hairy]

If Saturday’s aren’t profitable then why would they be recruiting for Sunday’s?

Management logic would be "If we lose money with Saturday delivery, we can make up for it by losing money delivering on Sundays"

 

[Brisket]

If one considered the company proposed paying weekend drivers only 18.75, then one might assume Saturday is being cut, put on hold or sliced in half until it is decided what will happen in the contract. Saturdays arent profitable. Reis's need to be thick to make what they say is profit. Saturdays are drivers wasting time covering 4 different areas.

Five areas from what I hear here.

 

[opie]

They kicked out all the air drivers to the curb. Many have moved on. Most of the Saturday air drivers we had were making more than a FT driver in progression. Now they will have many $12.50 air drivers to work Saturdays.

 

[Package Slanger]

I'm in a heavy metropolitan hub.

Theres word here from multiple drivers from different hubs that their Saturday Ground operation is coming to an end. Not profitable and company is losing money.

Also, those buildings and even buildings still with Saturday Ground are bringing back Saturday Air Drivers. Drivers on Saturdays going out with 30 NDA packages and they're all scattered. Could've told them that they should never have gotten rid of the drivers. One late NDA package could have paid for one air driver for 4 hours.

Now, either the air drivers we had went cover, FT driving or now, since they haven't worked Saturdays for over a year, don't want to come back.

Any other hubs going through the same thing? If so, where?

In my center they cut routes, and stops are down per car, but they make us drive more miles now. It sucks. Used to drive 92 miles on Saturday, with 194 stops average punch out at 5. Now, 166 stops, 130 miles, punch out after 6....trash

 

[Heavy Package]

Theres word here from multiple drivers from different hubs that their Saturday Ground operation is coming to an end. Not profitable and company is losing money.

Any other hubs going through the same thing? If so, where?

Yes - It's happening here. Just made it official this week; only 2 more weeks of Saturday ground and then it's back to air only. Maybe lasted a year. It was a money pit and a cluster and the drivers hated working Saturday due to lack of planning and horrible dispatch. But let's double down on Sunday, right?

 

[KOG72]

Word is we are keeping Saturdays but scaling back tremendously. We average 17/18 routes on Saturday. They are looking to put @11. We will see

That’s what they are doing at my building cutting it in half here

 

[Coldworld]

They said we are going from 16 to 8

Wdfd...you call that a “center”....??? It’s a satellite center afaic...

 

[Coldworld]

They said we are going from 16 to 8

Isn’t this the same thing that happen in the 30’s... air delivery wasn’t profitable so they stopped doing it and we all know what happen with that... am I the only one that sees this???

 

[TearsInRain]

I talked to a supervisor that has spent the last year with Saturday implementation. He was pulled off just recently and believes its just until the contract is done.

that guy is an idiot, these changes are what the Districts have wanted since day 1

I heard just delivering Walmart and amazon on Saturday’s.

there is barely any amazon or walmart on the cars i see, mostly middle market stuff

Don’t believe Saturday’s aren’t profitable. They don’t do unless it’s making profit.

the cost/piece on sat delivery sucks

pickups are very profitable

 

[Wally]

I thought the whole reason behind Saturday ground was to compete with others providing that service?

 

[Staydryitsraining]

My hub put up a Tuesday- Saturday preload bid sheet 2 days ago, so well see. Saturday ground has been delayed twice now here.

 

[Oak]

If Saturday ground is ending, why would they be pushing for the new classification of drivers? Would management lie to us? Smoke and Mirrors I say.

 

[Analbumcover]

Did you see the new ball-jointed Luka doll coming out?

No....but I may or may not have already pre-ordered Temptation Luka....maybe.....