Largest UPS Feeder Hub in Louisville, Kentucky

Check the site WWW.UPSJOBS.COM You want to apply for tractor trailer driver. AKA Feeder. If its open. You Probably just missed out. You will be hired as seasonal first then they might hire you full time. Seasonals get $20 an hour plus OT. Your oncall 24/7. Hope you dont like having a home life. Even when your out of hours they will call you into yard jockey or "shift". Yes it is the biggest feeder hub. Its feast or famine over there. Top pay is $33 an hour at your 3 year mark. No benefits while your seasonal. But you do pay union dues for nothing. The lady in charge of hiring is named Carmen. Her numbr is 502-359-1801. Do not trust the spervisors over there. Especially the main boss. Watch your back. There are plenty of people who will stab you in your back, because its sink or swim. If your gone someone else has a better chance to get on full time. We have 2 big hubs here in Louisvillle. The number to dispatch at the airport is 502-359-1531, or 502-359-0998. Hope that helps and good luck.

 

. You don't need a resume. Just do the application on upsjobs.com. they don't want all that junk. They wont look at it.
2. Being a yard jockey.....well at ups its a shifter. You will pull about 30-45 trailers off the door during the sort. That happens twice a day. Then you'll get a meal break. Then you will hook 10-12 sets and bring them up front for the drivers. Mostly sleeper teams. That's at the airport. Ashbottom hub.the other hub is Lch. Its all city pickup and regional. Sleeper teams run outta the airport. You will go from mileage to hourly as soon as you hit your destination.
3. If your gone....I mean fired laid off. Terminated. No lo G
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.82 a mile over a 250 mile radius one way. You will run Chicago and return same day. Or St.Louis Knoxville, Columbus,west Virginia. Stuff like that.

 

Boonie it will be good for you to start as a shifter, I know some feeder drivers whom started out as shifters. Being a shifter also prove that you can do the job of a feeder driver, you will be back trailers like a master, or maybe even backing a 28" with a dolly attach to in no time.

 

That airport hub is huge boonie. Not sure if its the biggest one, havent been to any of the others down there. But I swear they have atleast 40 jockey trucks. The whole #### place is jockey trucks. Security and safety are huge down there. Cant go 50 feet without hitting a stop sign. Come to a complete stop, honk, and then go...Its a pain in the ### but when youre paid by the hour, who cares?

 

A jockey truck is a truck designed specifically for moving trailers around the yard, or very short distances.

You can hook up to, and unhook from trailers without ever getting out of the truck (except to stand on the catwalk to hook/unhook the air lines).

The 5th wheel of a jockey truck is mounted on a hydraulic platform, operated by a lever inside the cab, so you never have to get out and manually raise the landing gear of the trailer.








They have a million names...Jockey truck, yard dog, yard hostler, yard mule, yard goat, switcher truck, shifter truck...I dont know why there are so many names for them.