UPS Feeder qualifications

[Jeddy]

Question for all you feeder people. Can a UPS employee that has been in a clerk position for 25 years be qualified to bid on a feeder position?

 

[superballs63]

Question for all you feeder people. Can a UPS employee that has been in a clerk position for 25 years be qualified to bid on a feeder position?

Look at the bid list, see if you meet all of the requirements, and if you do, sign your name on the line

 

[Jeddy]

Thanks for the answer but I had heard that you had to have at least 1 year of safe driving before you could sign up.

 

[superballs63]

Thanks for the answer but I had heard that you had to have at least 1 year of safe driving before you could sign up.

Not exactly, you need to have not had an accident in one year.

We just had people jump from PT to FT, so not exactly.

 

[greengrenades]

Thanks for the answer but I had heard that you had to have at least 1 year of safe driving before you could sign up.

Yea you need 1 year of safe driving in general, that doesn't mean in package. That means no tickets or accidents at all. That is at least what HR told me when I went into feeders last year. I went PT to FT feeders. Just sign it, you might be in a category as off the street hire. Worth a shot though.

 

[Jeddy]

So this person I know has not even been driving package just working as a clerk for the past 25 years and now wants to go into feeder. By the answers it appears if he has not even been driving he would not qualify.

 

[rod]

From driving a desk to driving a big rig----that should be a smooth transition.

 

[retiredTxfeeder]

Things change all the time. In the olden days, you couldn't go in to feeders from PT anything. And I don't believe clerks were allowed to bid. Like I tell my son, who works in a hub "if you want a job, sign on it. You never can tell."

 

[Jeddy]

From driving a desk to driving a big rig----that should be a smooth transition.

Yeah- It should be interesting to say the least. Let's see how the 2week of jammed pack training goes. It's like boot camp!

 

[Jones]

We've been hiring folks off the street, so clearly you don't need 1 year of safe driving at UPS just a clean driving record.

 

[superballs63]

So this person I know has not even been driving package just working as a clerk for the past 25 years and now wants to go into feeder. By the answers it appears if he has not even been driving he would not qualify.

What answers did you read that lead to that conclusion? One year of no speeding tickets or the like. People bypassed delivery and went right into feeders, so you don't need to do delivery first. Usually yes, but not recently

 

[SafeYARDdog]

Question for all you feeder people. Can a UPS employee that has been in a clerk position for 25 years be qualified to bid on a feeder position?

To be eligible you must be a FT Combo/ FT package car driver + Seniority.
BTW, Signing your name on the bid list won't hurt anything...Your seniority is a PLUS so Let see what is going on.

 

[Jones]

To be eligible you must be a FT Combo/ FT package car driver + Seniority.
BTW, Signing your name on the bid list won't hurt anything...Your seniority is a PLUS so Let see what is going on.

Wrong.

 

[DriveInDriveOut]

Wrong.

Could depend on the bid posted.
We have feeder bid sheets that state only friend/T package/combo are eligible.
When not enough full timers sign it they start pulling from the P/T to friend/T bid sheet, supposedly.
I just sign them all anyways and let HR deal with it.

 

[superballs63]

Could depend on the bid posted.
We have feeder bid sheets that state only friend/T package/combo are eligible.
When not enough full timers sign it they start pulling from the P/T to friend/T bid sheet, supposedly.
I just sign them all anyways and let HR deal with it.

Jones is 100% correct. He was responding to a post stating that you HAVE to be some kind of FT. That is incorrect. Like you say, it depends on what the bid says. That is not what Jones was arguing

 

[Mugarolla]

Question for all you feeder people. Can a UPS employee that has been in a clerk position for 25 years be qualified to bid on a feeder position?

Depends on what supplement you are under. In the Central, no. You need to have 1 year of UPS safe driving.

 

[Mugarolla]

Not exactly, you need to have not had an accident in one year.

We just had people jump from PT to FT, so not exactly.

Not in the Central. You need 1 year UPS safe driving. In other supplements, it does say 1 year without an accident, but not in the Central.

 

[Mugarolla]

Yea you need 1 year of safe driving in general, that doesn't mean in package. That means no tickets or accidents at all. That is at least what HR told me when I went into feeders last year. I went PT to FT feeders. Just sign it, you might be in a category as off the street hire. Worth a shot though.

This is true if no FT employee bids. They then can open it up to PT and you need the same qualifications as an off the street hire.

 

[superballs63]

Not in the Central. You need 1 year UPS safe driving. In other supplements, it does say 1 year without an accident, but not in the Central.

Sucks to be in the Central

 

[Mugarolla]

Sucks to be in the Central

Ya gotta take the bad with the good.