Martinsburg WV Mail Sorting Center

Get the address from your prospective employer and take a look on Google Earth Pro. I don't know anything about that postal facility, but the fifteen or so I've been to in NY, NJ, PA, CT, and MA range from easy to very easy. These places operate around the clock, but you'll have a specific Trip Standard that says when you're to arrive, and when you depart. If you show up late, it's documented as Contractor Failure. If they're late getting you loaded, they give you a Late Slip to document to your employer, and the next facility on your trip, that it wasn't your fault. Kind of like being back in elementary school. In my experience, the Trip Standard is lax enough that you should have no trouble. And the Trip Standard is the basis for pay, so if the standard says the trip is 12.5 hours, and you're done in 11, you still get paid the 12.5. So the pay might officially be $36 an hour, but in reality it's over $40. Where I work, if I end up going over the hours, I'm paid for all actual time. Most of our trips are out and back in a single shift, but those that require a 10-hour break away from home pay an extra $50, and they put you up in a hotel.

Some trips are completely drop and hook, but the live loads might involve a little driver loading. Specifically, they'll have you load the rolling containers, and strap the load, while dock workers move the pallets. Other places they'll do it all.

In terms of waiting to be loaded or unloaded, I've had good days and less-good days at almost all the facilities I visit. Just depends on who's working that day, and maybe the whims of the trucking Gods. Overall though, it's hard to imagine an easier job than driving for a USPS contractor.

 

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