ups flatbed

I never knew they had flatbeds.

 

I looked at the career link at the UPS Freight site and it listed tarp pay for flatbed as an added pay . You might go to the site and get an e-mail contact .

 

Part of their flat beds are now moving storage containers I guess they started their own you pack the containers and we move company it is called Smart move.
Search the net for ups career.

 

UPS has a dedicated fleet that is serving our company. I think they originate out of Stockton, California and then come over here with loads of copper pipe and other pipe commodites coming from our company's distribution centers over there. Umm, it was Stockton or Mira Loma - I don't remember which. Check over there. It's a regional run and most of the guys I have talked to are pretty content with the job.

 

UPS Freight runs flatbeds out of the Westfield MA Lowes DC....it's the only place I've seen 'em around come to think of it. Now I don't like hauling Lowes stuff too much, it's piss-poor loading, 50-53K lb loads, and the bulk of that on the nose of the trailer... BUT these UPS guys seem like an angry bunch. Tear in, whip around, dump the trailer, tear back out. Drive right up on the bumper of another driver looking for his preloaded trailer, get pissed, and zoom around him only to go 10 feet past to another trailer.

Not sure if they're making decent money or not, but their prevailing attitude sucks. If you work for UPS freight in MA, wanna elaborate? Is Lowes that much of a nuisance?

 

Contrarily - the UPS flatbed drivers I have encountered are a great bunch of guys and I wouldn't be afraid to call them friends if they were neighbors. They are all hard workers - most flatbedders have to be (not denigrating anyone else, don't take it that way). They do their job in a very professional manner. One guy that comes to our yard regularly - we get into conversations that last up to half an hour or more. If I'm at the yard, I make sure they are unloaded right away and can get out of there and onto the next stop. But, the rest of my coworkers do the same (a little education on a truck driver's life can go a long way in encouraging others to get on the ball and get them unloaded as fast as possible). We talk because it's good company, I am not trying to detain any of them. I know them by first name. They are good people.

 

That copper pipe used to originate out of a small town off 78. I'm pretty sure it was in Mississippi but may have been Alabama. It was an old Overnight account. I pulled a few loads out of there for them 7-8 years ago. The loads had multiple drops. It went all over the U.S.. Wherever they ended up they would deadhead back to the plant but fuel was a lot cheaper then. I still see UPS hauling these loads. The drivers I met there were a pretty contented group. I don't know much has changed since UPS took over Overnight.