How does UPS Freight keep drivers???

Does anyone know what dictates if you get hourly pay vs mileage at parcel or freight?

 

Where else you going to make $1800 or more (my pay is still lower than average for road drivers) and not touch JACK, and have weekends off, and really good benefits?



The $1300 was i think only working 4 days because i wanted off on one day, but that's still good.

 

At freight all runs are mileage in linehaul with any work inside a terminal being paid hourly. Parcel pays hourly unless the run is over 500 miles.

 

I've done quite a few different jobs in my 23 years driving big trucks.
And all of them I worked harder for less than I do working at UPS parcel.

I'm just about to hit my 4th year anniversary and go top rate which will be over $37 an hour.
The benefits are unrivaled. Health insurance is the best in the business.

It was rough starting out but I made sacrifices and adjustments in my life to make it happen and put in my dues. Best decision I ever made. I grossed $91k my 3rd year. I'm over $11k gross for this year so far. And I will have a $3200 a month pension when I retire at 65.
And I will retire from here.

Bigdog, if I'm not mistaken, you're pretty much new to the industry?

 

Parcel is different than freight.
The length of the run usually determines the pay method. When I was in parcel anything over 500 for the day was mileage. Less than that was hourly. We did have some exceptions to that but the mileage runs always paid the best. Any of your clock time(non driving functions) was paid at time and a half from the first minute of your Pre Trip after agreed to free time, turn time at drop and hook location and post trip at the end of the day. Each location is different, but we gave them roughly 10 minutes free for pre trip, drop and hook and post trip. If nothing caused you a delay you turned and burned. Most times you were waiting on a meet or delayed at dispatch or something else, therefore you would often get a couple hours a day at 1.5 and it added up quickly.

 

De Trucker most people don’t have the patience to wait for the good stuff like you are doing. When I was in progression is was only 3 years, but I got over a $10 an hour raise the final year. I still made good money while in progression. It sometimes does suck while going thru progression, but most everyone has done it if they have a really good job. The ones who don’t have the patience need to stay at JB or Schneider and then see how they feel at the end of their working career.

 

Spot on! People nowadays don't want to earn their keep and pay their dues

Progression does suck at first but it gets better. And at the end you have the best job in the industry. Its hilarious to see people bash this job because they aren't willing to pay their dues.
It's more funny to see a complete newb to the industry blast one of the best jobs in the industry because he can't walk right in and make 6 digits from day one.
It amazes me!

 

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