Allthough I disagree with your issue's example 1 and 2 probably have reasonable answer's...Example 1, your shop probably didn't have the right part in stock to fix it so instead of red tagging a truck for a none saftey part as that, they did the right thing, heck I'll even bet it's fixed properly now!!! Example 2, we as mechainc's "ARE NOT" going to relocate seat's or mirror's everytime a new or cover driver get's into a truck for a day or a week!!! Between dvir's, pmi's and scheduled work there is no time to do mirror's all night long!! If your getting a new route and your getting a different truck we will be more than happy to make it fit for you!! Example 3 you are right your shop should have come out to repair the truck or swap it out, all they were trying to do was to save a road call. Everytime a mechanic has to go on the road to chase a truck the mechanic who that truck is assigned to get's charged for that road call. I hope some of this might help you, your mechanic's might be not as bad as you think!!!!
Hey griff...I see your from Metro Phila, so am I we just had a mechanic retire in this district with 26yrs and he is getting $5980 a month he had 6 year's from another job he had before UPS. The only reason I know what he is getting I am his steward and I helped him with the paperwork!!! That's what you get for "not" being in a multi employer pension. You guy's should have jumped on the company's offer in 1997 but that J/O Ron Carey had another agenda in mind!!!
Mangement has this # called 500 car day's, everytime a car goes out and come's back that count's as 1 car day. Every building tries to get at least 500 car day's at the end of every month. Depending on how many car's each building has determine's how many road call's you can have a month and still make to 500 car day's. Center's with 300 car's can have more road call's a month than a center with 125 car's. We as mechanic's will alway's try to talk a driver in if it's a safe to do so if not we have have to go. We don't get written but if the same car goes down for the same problem to many time's or if somthing we just did the night before break's down for that we could get written up but that usually doesn't happen..
I disagree. They work hard and have expertise. They make sure our trucks are safe and running right. They also help us out by putting in a new seat here and there. We had a mechanic have a transmission drop on his arm and put him out of work for over 2 months. Their job is dirty, greasy, and dangerous. Do you really want to outsource the truck work to a non-union shop. NO THANKS!!!!!!!! Our mechanics are great guys. I say pay em!
Sometimes when I see you guy's coming in for the day alot of you guy's are dirtier than I get in a week!!! I don't know how you guy's and gal's do it every day!!!
