Con-Way Freight or UPS?

regardless that is superior to conway. not even counting the overtime or the superior benefits or the pension. as you have alrdy said,it is possible to get into ups freight as a TT driver without working the dock,although rare in comparison to alot of companies.

a top tier of somewhere inbetween 80-90k/yr at ups after being there like 30+ yrs.

conway youll be lucky if you hit 70k after 30 yrs,although some conway drivers in this thread claim to make more,i dont have first hand knowledge. but even they say ups is superior in the long run.

 

That's what I did, sideloader that is. Very physical, but I liked it.


Conservative to the Bone.

 

I loaded trucks at Pepsi part time right after high school. By far the most physical job Ive ever had.

The thing about the pop business is, nothing is light.

Pop, water, and bag in a box syrup...All heavy.

 

I hated the bibs! Bag in box syrup.


Conservative to the Bone.

 

Ill tell you what, it blew my mind just how many flavors Pepsi actually makes. I never realized it until I worked there. Im sure Coke was the same way.

I drove around on a forklift with a pallet and filled orders. One order could have 30 different kinds of flavors, handling units (bottles, cans, cases etc). We dropped the skids by the dock doors and one guy in particular counted everything on the skid to make sure you filled everything right. If you messed up, you had to fix it...So if you put cases of sierra mist instead of diet sierra mist on the bottom, you had to rebuild the whole skid....

It wasnt a bad job and definitely kept me in shape, but if I were there today Id only be making around $17 an hour (I keep in touch with a few of the guys after all these years).

 

where ever you get on, get yourself in shape girl, if you have to start local, all here will tell you LTL freight doesnt unload itself.

 

Truck tires, lumber, rolls of carpet, pipes etc......Not everything is on skids, and a lot of hand unloading in LTL. You will have deliveries to tiny little stores that order 2,000lb skids and dont even have a back door....Or even a wide front door! Wheel the skid to the back, drop it down with the liftgate if you have on (probably not), and start wheeling that freight in one box at a time. This is why i think half these OTR guys who claim they want a local job dont even look for one, they are scared of actual work. Who cant hold a steering wheel for 600 miles and then park the truck? You will hit docks and back into places that you wouldnt even imagine a 53 foot trailer would fit into.

I could tell you stories all day about nightmare deliveries and pickups. Last week I delivered sets of leaf springs for a big truck to some hole in the wall shop. No forklift, I had no pallet jack, we had to hand unload them all, and they were heavy.

UPS Freight also has the Sunsetters account, which can be a real pain in the ###.

 

Deff not overly gullible here, I saw hard proof of this, and that is all i was stating. Maybe it was double-time or holiday pay added in, I have no idea as I am not a union employee nor will I ever be...... I'm not saying you are wrong, i was just stating what I was shown. If I can, I will ask him what his avg hourly rate was once he comes back for the holidays.

And to the OP, from the guys i know I working for UPS Parcel running the feeder trucks, they all worked nights out of the local terminal here as they had to wait for the package cars to come back with the goods to be loaded on their trailers