UPS

"I'm anti-union also...until they hire me"....hmmmm....bit hypocritical don't you think ???

 

"84K ?? Jeez, I do MUCH better than that....Enjoy !!"

Enjoy! Well, I get to double that and I'm only driving part-time... my other gig makes up for it... so ENJOY!

 

I learn so much from all of the truckers daily grind I read on here and I am grateful for it. I would be the kind of person normally who would ask the guard as well but after months of seeing what truckers go through I am now of the mindset 'don't ask'......just do it. Especially if it's dark.

"Do unto others as they've left it for you".

 

i used to ask also,some have said you can put in dumpster etc,but almost all will say no and take as-is...what i would be most inclined to do is dump em on ground AND ask dispatcher for extra pay for cleaning out trlr.

 

Worked for them for a season as a jockey. They offered to keep me on working on the docks. Can't remember exactly, but the pay would have been somewhere around $8.25 an hour to start.

 

yes, my bro-in-law did start at a low wage, under $9 per hour, but he has been there now well over 15 (?) years and up to that $16.50...he likes his job, and especially the bene's...he doesn't always work a full week either, sometimes when it is slow (yes UPS does slow down a bit), he still gets his full benefits, minus of course a few hours paid less...

 

yes the benefits are awesome. i also sometimes dont work a full work week because of my high senority.

 

Im a supervisor at UPS at the oakhaven facility in memphis tn...i run one of the
eight outbound areas there...the only reasons the pallets are left over is cause of
all of our freight is broken down in the trlr and put on conveyor belt to be sorted throughout building..every box...heck i have gotten numerous amounts of trlr from the inbound lanes full of pallets and i have to deal with it if we are short with trlrs i have to pull them off...its not the unloaders job to pull pallets off is whomever is going to use the trlr next job...sorry but its the truth lol even our drivers have to pull pallets off at times

 

Every UPS hub I have been in also has a place usually close to the back where you can back up to and unload pallets and a rolling dumpster to put the trash, not that big of a deal to get it cleaned out if you wont the new trailer.

 

Then you request inbound freight be loaded on the floor. The standard in the industry is is freight be loaded on pallets because most people use forklifts and pallet jacks. Unless floor stack is requested. Drivers don't have the resources to get rid of pallets unless they can talk the next customer into taking them or get lucky and find a place that buys them. This is one reason you find illegal dumped pallets at truck stops and various other locations. A fixed location company can easily set up a pallet recycle program.

UPS could simply save the pallets in the corner of their lot, stack them up and when they have a full truck load there are buyers that will take them off your hands for a nice payday. Think green and be part of the solution instead of the problem.

It boils down to two companies operating different ways and the one receiving wins. Put it off on the driver. To give you an idea how rare it is I would say I had to deal with pallets left on a trailer maybe once or at the most twice a year.

Get in the groove Buster Brown!