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If the self driving cars follow Orion it will be a nightmare.
Will UPS ever do away with preloaders?
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Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
Why would it matter when the labor is making $12 an hour.
Drink Craft Beer
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That's what UPS wants to pay ($12.00) their pre-loaders. That's why they hassle those who've been on pre-load for over 10yrs and have no interest in driving.
Currently out of 15 pre-loaders on my shift ( 8 who are making more than $17.00 an hour) 10 won't ever sign up for full time driver.
Comes down to "if we keep harassing this guy, who's making $20.00 an hour, then hopefully he'll quit since he never wants to become a driver.
Currently out of 15 pre-loaders on my shift ( 8 who are making more than $17.00 an hour) 10 won't ever sign up for full time driver.
Comes down to "if we keep harassing this guy, who's making $20.00 an hour, then hopefully he'll quit since he never wants to become a driver.
JL 0513
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There's lots of tech that comes along that takes forever to be fully implemented. Autonomous car tech already works in prototypes but there's a million things that will keep it from going live anytime soon.
As for transportation companies like UPS implementing autonomy, that is likely decades off. Think about it, a good portion of our fleet are nearly 30 year old dinasours that don't even have power steering. Half our fleet don't even have automatic transmissions. When were these two technologies invented? 1920's. So after 100 years, many of us still don't have it.
How about those hybrid package cars you sometimes see in print? The vast majority of us will never see it. Hybrid tech is 20 years old. Point is, even if it's possible, doesn't mean it happens. Often times, it's the massive upfront investment of replacing equipment that still works.
Don't be alarmed, we aren't being replaced by androids anytime soon. Even if they could build an android that can do anything we can in 20 years, it would take UPS many years after that to use them.
As for transportation companies like UPS implementing autonomy, that is likely decades off. Think about it, a good portion of our fleet are nearly 30 year old dinasours that don't even have power steering. Half our fleet don't even have automatic transmissions. When were these two technologies invented? 1920's. So after 100 years, many of us still don't have it.
How about those hybrid package cars you sometimes see in print? The vast majority of us will never see it. Hybrid tech is 20 years old. Point is, even if it's possible, doesn't mean it happens. Often times, it's the massive upfront investment of replacing equipment that still works.
Don't be alarmed, we aren't being replaced by androids anytime soon. Even if they could build an android that can do anything we can in 20 years, it would take UPS many years after that to use them.
Oldsmobile was the first car with an automatic transmission, the hydramatic drive (clutch less )in 1947.
JL 0513
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They came out for the 1940 model year. The invention itself dates back years before. That's the main point. Going from today's autonomous concepts from Google and others to UPS trucks riding around by themselves is a big leap. The biggest threat to our jobs in the next couple of decades is really just old fashion competition such as Amazon creating their own delivery network.
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