Ups seasonal to casual

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  1. skinnytrucker

    skinnytrucker Heavy Load Member

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    When you start on Monday make sure they put you on the “permanent on-call”
     
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  3. skinnytrucker

    skinnytrucker Heavy Load Member

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    I know going in I’m gonna take a huge hit financially and it’s truly gonna suck but long term it’ll be a better situation for me. I to am a bit of a rebel and enjoy the freedoms trucking gives me and I will have to give some of them up and conform to the ways of buster brown
     
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  4. Buffalonytrucker92

    Buffalonytrucker92 Medium Load Member

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    So is permanent on call better?. I'm willing to do whatever to get full time. Just not sure what the pros and cons are for permanent on call
     
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  5. Banker

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    With the amount of internet business they have now you may not have to take a big pay cut. Depending on the location many places are covered up and everyone is working.
     
  6. skinnytrucker

    skinnytrucker Heavy Load Member

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    It’ll be a tough schedule but your more likely to work. That’s what I’m starting out on. I’ve done it before years ago at Roadway Express
     
  7. skinnytrucker

    skinnytrucker Heavy Load Member

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    Yes sir I agree. When I took my road test the supervisor that road along said that’s what brown is banking there future on
     
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  8. Buffalonytrucker92

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    So you think I'll get full time quickly? The manager told me 1-1.5 years I'll be good. Unless sleeper teams open. Not alot of people want them. But those are easy six figure jobs
     
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  9. 77fib77

    77fib77 Road Train Member

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    Do construction. I knew guys who were union construction and then did ups in the winter.
     
  10. Buffalonytrucker92

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    That's a really good idea. I thought about becoming a school bus driver. Says it's like $21.50 an hour.. it's more like January too March when it's slow. I though maybe becoming a glazier to industrial painter
     
  11. LtlAnonymous

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    I stopped getting notifications from this thread. Congratulations on getting in! I hope it's working as well as you'd hoped.

    So my first "full year" there, I made mid-30s. That was utterly abysmal, and it hurt, but I was also laid off from January until the beginning of April. I was still seasonal and working sporadically for a lot of this year, and then I got hired for permanent in the fall.

    My second full year, I made around 50k.

    My third full year, I made 55k.

    And then just like that, I jumped up to the mid-80s, and happy days were here again.

    This year? Well, time will tell. I get the BIG raise this year.

    But your experience will be totally different, if you're living in an area that starts guys out at $30 an hour. My starting pay hurt my feelings. lol
     
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