United Parcel Service, Inc. - Aurora, Il.

I never thought that I would post a negative thread about UPS, since the general view is that it is a great company, but I have a friend who has a son that recently went to work for UPS as a "feeder driver" and he is about to "starve".

He has been there about 4 months and unknowing to him when he took the job, UPS operates a "hog board"---seniority. This man quit a fairly good job making around $900 per week because he was interested in a good pension plan, which UPS has. Some weeks during the last 4 months he has only gotten one trip and on the average he has made around $540.00 gross, with a family to support, house payment and a daughter getting ready to enter college, he is deeply troubled.

When he applied, UPS never told him that they operated a "hog board", they left him with the impression that he would work 5 days per week. He has to live by the phone and only has 1 hour call. The starting pay is only $14.70 per hour and you work a 30 day probation period and that is 30 days of work, not a 30 day period, it took this man over two months to finish his probation period. Frigging rules are unbelievable and stupid! One, you will wear the seat belt at all times, even when bobtailing in the yard, even when hooking up, even when you are just sitting in the tractor doing your paperwork.

Unless you are single and living at home with mom and pop, I would highly advise you to stay away from UPS. A married man with a family cannot afford to "tough" it out until he gains enough seniority to make a descent pay check. Sure, the old men are making $80,000 to $90,000 per year, but unless you have some "deep pockets" you better think twice.

 

Let me tell you (bloodlan), first you sound like one of those "super truckers". I have been in this business for some 43 years, worked for union companies that worked a "first in and first out" board. Not all union carriers work a "hog board". To call someone an "idiot" only discloses your mentality, do you have a mental attitude that needs to "put others down"?????? I only posted this for information purposes for those who arent as "smart" as you are.

 

Truck Vet writes:

You said it!:smt033

But I will never post another thread in this "tone". You bunch of "smarties" dont belong in a truck, you are too intelligent to be driving for a living.

 

Let me offer my apology Truck Vet, I really thought you were being sarcastic, I was wrong and humbly apologize .

I feel so sorry for this man. I didnt realize the UPS worked a "hog board" and when he came to me for advice, I told him to "go for it" and now I feel partly to blame. I worked for three union companies during my driving career and all three operated a "first in and first out" board, the senior men had bid runs and the extra board men filled in and did the extra runs and seniority did not play into the picture. I believe in "seniority" but this is carrying it a little too far.