UPS Freight Diary:

Welp, Harland Cochran has finally delivered his last load and has headed home so to speak.......

He had many wealthy years---i would say at least 60, cos he started Overnite when he was about 22.

R.I.P. Harland Cochran (i think 1913 - 2016)
Thank you for starting the company that i love.

 

Oops! Harwood Cochran, not Harland.

And he came to the party in 1912, not 13.

http://m.richmond.com/business/local/article_d74e160e-187e-504f-be37-b051e6ed5024.html?mode=jqm

 

Not great considering 55 hours. On the other hand not bad for a daytime gig with weekends completely off.

In other news, i think all of our intertrashinal 9300 series tractors have disappeared at this barn. Not a bad truck, but most weren't suited for city work being that they were all former road tractors.

 

Too much rushing lately. Not exactly happy. The job is still good though.

 

1) Not happy about this one bit; Lots of rushing around. What extra-board apparently means is i come in 7-8, i run one or two volume loads, THEN i run someone's city route if they go on vacation or had to take off. And with 20+ drivers, someone is usually on vacation. But i leave later for the city route later than everyone else----because i had to do the two volume runs. On top of that, which was not explained to me, is that since we don't have any dock/cdl drivers anymore, (no one bid on that position), IF someone on road takes off, i have to fill it.

What had happened was that when i first ran extra-board, the other extra board driver was on vacation; Thus, i thought it was going to be easy. The other driver has more seniority than me, thus s/he gets the volume loads all day vs. city p+d.

i mean, it's still a good company. All daytime work, weekends completely off. And i don't have to worry about where i'm going to park at night. You sleep in your own quiet bed at night and use your own shower.

i didn't get my check stub this week, but i have direct deposit. Was able to look it up online:

$1,182.04 gross at 55.49 hours, 15.49 hours OT.
Not real good, but i'm only at 1st year pay scale.

 

P.S. Need a tax shelter......

 

TOO MUCH RUSHING = NOT GOOD FOR (MENTAL) HEALTH, SAFETY, AND JUST BAD BUSINESS.

 

14.5 hours on duty. REALLY?

And i only gross $237 per day average.

Not too happy about this, although i do have to say for a 5 day workweek, all daytime job it's not too bad.