UPS Feeder Driver

I tried working for UPS one year during peak season, never again! First, you will only be making about half of what a full time driver makes. Second, you will end up with the "left-overs". Hang by the phone so you can take what has been passed over. The building that I was hired to work out of, I was plainly told that after peak season, bye bye. Well, I told them bye bye well before the end of peak season. Maybe if I had been making "big bucks" as the full timers, I might withstood the bull$$$$, but not for $14 per hr.

 

This, coming from someone who does foodservice, would handily illustrate the atmosphere at UPS package!

And, i would wholeheartedly agree!

 

Exactly how I've heard it is. I have friends who have been there a long time and are miserable but have to much time in to move on.

 

Absolutely, I know what u mean about the bid trucks. I worked 10 years as a teamster in California and I know all about seniority!

 

That was the old pay for seasonal drivers which is ridiculous.
Now they pay a lot more. Depending on location seasonals now get paid $27- 31 an hour.

 

A lot of those guys would be miserable any where they go.
If they worked at majority of other companies they'd be on suicide watch.

I wouldn't give this job up for anything. Best driving job I ever had. I'm sure some hubs/centers are rough. Mine thank God isn't. Very laid back. Management is respectful to drivers unless you're a total screw up. But this same thing can be said for any company.

I know some guys that are complete screw ups. They do a crappy job. Half ### everything. They don't do anything right and when management is up their butts about it they cry harrassment and tell everyone how they're being victimized.

 

Most of that is true but the pay is different now, Seasonals make around $30 an hour now.

 

Thats just union culture. Seen it alot in the mfg gig i had previously. Then someone came up with a grand idea to bring Semi-Autonomous work groups in and eliminated alot of supervisor positions. Think before i left there were 3 supervisors that came and took off in the previous year.

Then they wonder why minimal production is getting done. No support from the higher ups.

 

Just saw an ad for seasonal feeder here in town offering a 5,000 sign on bonus and $35 an hour! They must really be hurting for drivers. Probably decent odds to get hired on after Christmas though.

 

I mean... The average person waits a decade to become a feeder driver, at most terminals. Something to think about.