From UPS to Mom and Pop Company?

Exactly my point that “If” someone were able to you wouldn’t like it. There are some companies that do allow someone to take someone’s bid after transferring in from other parts of the country. My belief is that seniority should be for each individual location, if you want to transfer across the country you should keep company seniority for vacation weeks given (not picking vacation openings) and retirement, but you go to the bottom of the board for bid purposes.

 

At FXF you can transfer to another terminal if they have an opening. You go to the bottom of there board, but you keep your company seniority for layoffs.

 

Well, I couldn't think of a better reference than UPS. I still say, anyone will roll out the carpet for this driver. One must be cautious,,,

 

I don’t see this topic or our conversation as an argument. I see it as two different ways of doing the same thing. It is possible that if your company did it the other way you may or may not have not gone to work there or you would have grown use to it. If the companies I have worked at had done it like R&L, I would either have chosen a different employer or I would have gotten use to it and probably end up liking that way. Either way is not any more right or wrong than the other, it is merely different.

 

SlickNick....

Think long-term.

Since you currently have what is arguably one of the best jobs in the transportation sector -- given how incredibly bad the present CDL job market is....& how outrageously expensive everything now is.....the thinking here is that when you leave UPS....you will soon learn to miss the pay & benefits options that you now have.

Suggestion: do everything you can to keep and secure a driving job with UPS....BEFORE you move to the Nashville area (or wherever).

Stay where you are now -- at least until your present retirement provisions are vested.

Those supposedly cool-looking, "cozy" mom-n-pop gigs simply won't offer you the pay & bennies (& for that matter, stability) that UPS has.

-- L

 

you're at top rate you should be able to get a house in both places if you wanted

 

Your 27 years old, you’re in one of the best truck driving gigs there are you’ve already built up a nice retirement and you got benefits. Most of us could only dream of and you want to give it up and go work for some mom and pop trucking company in the middle of nowhere because your family wants to move? Why not move somewhere that allows you to stay in your current position? By the time you’re 40 years old if you stay at UPS you probably wouldn’t have to work another day in your life. I started over at 50 my friend. Like literally got divorced, and started over from nothing. Trust me, stay where you’re at.

 

His family is in/near Nashville and UPS is huge in Nashville.

 

Yeah, no. Non-union companies do not want union drivers, for many a reason.