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My dad was a line haul driver for RPS back in the day how about that?

 

I asked my neighbor about that and he said that parcel does have fedder drivers that go into the city and pick up at really big shippers who ship a lot of individual packages. That's why you see UPS Parcel trucks pulling single pup trailers or 48-53' in the city.

 

Yeah, Parcel is pretty much LTL as well. It's run basically the same way. They do linehauls, P&D, intermodel, airport runs. They just do it in a higher volume, smaller freight.

 

How do feeder drivers get no OT besides top guys? When you start off at the bottom and are on call you do extra runs or cover for some one who is on vacation or called off.. Doesn't matter what your seniority is, if you're next on the call board and there is a 600 mile run that needs to be done, you're doing it.

 

Feeder driver make a little bit more than package car drivers. Especially when pulling doubles. But, package car drivers do make close. This is the case in most hubs I know of including mine.

 

Around my area, it's a large terminal with over 250 drivers. The top drivers get the OT, while the vast majority barely get any OT. That's all that a friend of mine is getting since the last time I talked to him.

 

That mightbe the case when you first get enough seniority to bid and get stuck with the bottom of the barrel of runs. But even most of the bottom runs will get some overtime.
And someone fresh at the bottom on the call board will get lots of overtime.

80% of drivers at my hub work more than 8 hours a day and it's a very large hub.

 

Obviously your hub works differently than the one around MY area. I'm just going by his experience, as well as mine, and I got no OT as well either, maybe few here and there. There was anouther driver on anouther thread that also mentioned that they didn't get much OT either at where his friend worked at. I'm just going by MY area. And I really don't want to go to a point where the OP's thread is jeopardized. So let's just leave it at that, or you can just PM me instead.

 

UPS Freight Richfield, Ohio
This isn't quite the vantage point I would have liked, but it works you can see the shop. Serriously though the place looks like it belongs on a train set. I'm going to probably build a model of it, well it won't be exact, but pretty close.

You can see the ship building over there to the left. It looks like a taxi cab garage really, they drive the trucks in there and work on them on jack stands or something if they have to. You can see the old time Overnight Straight Truck parked there in the bottom left and some Over Night trailers still around.

 

Do you take all these pictures with your phone or a camera? Some of your pictures you post look like it was taken by a professional.

Maybe if truckin don't work out somehow, you should look into photography. SERIOUSLY!!!!!