If you have been on the same route for a very long time and you are consistent ---say 125 total stops --total paid day ten hours.
When you are ojs'same area --same stops and you consistently work 8.5 hours -that is a problem.
Along with that problem --you constantly cry about and file over 9.5 grievances.
I would personally change my work behavior or you may not even see that paycheck in the future --Whats right is right. Some Drivers B.S. just one extra minute at each stop --and cannot see 2 hours of overtime.
If under supervision --you run + or - 15 minutes of YOUR normal total hours ---no worries --keep filing the 9.5 grievances ---citing the OJS rides --your spc will be adjusted--Whats right is right .
Be careful of taking advice from shi-house lawyers--If you cannot TALK to Management --Talk to your Union Rep.
Good Luck.
Ya know island, these principles may have worked for you in 1949, but this is 2013 where route values have been cut so drastically the norm is no longer "scratch", but an acceptable day is one hour in the hole. This is 2013 bro, a "new" UPS. A UPS where preload will cut the hours of a kid making 9.50 an hour to "dump" the load in the package car just to get the slides clean, then force a driver at 55 bucks an hour to fix it in the PM for two hours, or having to drive an extra 10 miles just to deliver the off area packages that always end up in the cars.
In todays UPS, we fail more packages than ever before. We have more misloads per 100 than ever before, we drive more miles than ever before. NO matter what P.O.S. technological system UPS deploys, it makes it worse.
History: back in 1991 i took my route. It was a P8 with 110 stops mostly business, small residential and about 175 to 200 piece day with 39 industrial pickups that would see 350 to 500 pickup pieces. In 1991, the route could be done in under 9.5 paid day and thats working a sweat and staying on target. It planned out at 10.5 to 11.5 a day depending on COD's and pickups.
Over the years leading up to the strike, I made production bonus from working hard and beating the planned day. Over those same years, UPS cut the value of my route as they "whittled" down my time per stop per area.
In 1998, I was moved into a P110, my delivery stops increased to 155, my miles extended by 10 per day, my pickups remained the same and the planned day was reduced to less than 8 hours a day. This has remained the same since.
Everyday, I am at least 2.5 hours in the hole, and even if I sacrificed my lunch and breaks and did not have any chit chat time, that would still leave me 1.5 hours in the hole.
The extra work added to the car is signature only condos and apartments where my spohr went from a solid 16.55 to less than 14 stops an hour. You see island, some genious figured out that reducing my "planned day" would somehow force me to RUN, JUMP, SPEED my way to under 9 hours, and that just aint going to happen.
When the sups ride on car, we go even slower. Im folding in my mirrors, im parking on clear curbs, im not putting that car in red zones, Im not blocking driveways, Im clearing every intersection by the methods, Im not running, im not crossing on grass or cutting driveways. Im using proper lifting devices and calling for help on ALL over 70 pkgs.
You see, in 1949, there were no heavy packages. NO workout equiptment, NO big screen tv's, NO 150 lbs furniture and NO large bulkstops.
Today, its a blown out package car loaded from top to bottom from left to right with an isle that buried in assorted bulk that came down the slide at different times forcing me to handle and touch the same packages over and over for the first 4 hours of my day.
I will agree though, that there are "some" that seem to go a bit faster when a sups on the car, but the majority of drivers are honest people who are fighting a system that is failing to provide a good work day.
In the companies eyes, everyone is stealing time, thats the only answer they want to accept. They refused to believe they are responsible for destroying not only operation of the company, but the loss of profits.
Its an ugly monster. Preload cuts its hours to save pennies, the loads are compromised, then the package centers cut cars, cramming extra splits onto shelves where the only option is to compromise the D.O.L. because of double and triple stack brick loads, then the package center brings its drivers in late, after 9pm compromising the twilight causing the feeder trucks to delay pull times, once feeder delays pull times, that delays arriving times at other hubs or switches, once that happens, trailers get to the preload late and the cycle starts again.
Nothing in that scenario leads to profitability ISLAND, and yet, rather than FIX this practice, the company believes its going to save itself by harrassing drivers to EEK out 15 mins of street time.
Im in feeder now, and believe me, watching the unload wait for drivers because they buried the entire crew is a pure comedy of errors.
UPS has bigger fish to fry, like its own management, before it attempts to eliminate "the paycheck of a driver".
Guys like you ( in your day ) had it easy. Envelopes and smalls. WOOO HOOO. Everyone in before 7pm. Today, staying out till 9pm in a large corridor like WLA is the norm. Our drivers dont make over 100K out here because UPS hands it to us, we earn it fixing the very mistakes you call "CONCEPTS", only we fix it while earning 55 dollars an hour.
IF UPS was smart, they would eliminate the business manager, and allow the most qualified senior driver to dispatch the center in coordination with PDS and allow that person to add/cut where needed after "problems" were identified that would cause a driver to stay out late and interfere with twilight.
Unfortunately, today, managers ( like yourself) drink from the same "kool aid" jug and believe that the directive to cut cars coming from atlanta is in the companies best interests even though you know well ahead of time that you will fail packages, pickups and customers.
The only "kool aid" drinking people at UPS are the jug heads of IE who come up with "a plan to fail" everyday.
I caution the drivers not to listen to a "relic". Someone so removed from UPS reality that they can offer no realistic advice on todays operation.
I hope this helps you.
TOS
