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UPS Approved for Drones!!!

Discussion in 'LTL and Local Delivery Trucking Forum' started by BigDog Trucker, Oct 1, 2019.

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I'm going to start shooting down drones down with packages, and see what I get. Lol plus these must be some bad ### drones. I get parts all the time. Some weigh a bit. What if I order a new engine... look out below!!!

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I'm going to start shooting down drones down with packages, and see what I get. Lol plus these must be some bad ### drones. I get parts all the time. Some weigh a bit. What if I order a new engine... look out below!!!
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Skeet shooting but with prizes.

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Skeet shooting but with prizes.
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PULL!!! LOL

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They would be better off by getting the packages to fly themselves and load them up on airplane then open the cargo door up inthe sky and let em fly

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It just sucks, because I started off the beginning of the year with 40 people underneath me, and now I have 170. It just doesn't make sense for a sinking ship like this to hire so many people. Lol
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Black and decker in Hampstead Maryland fired almost 900. Hired me as a mail clerk that any one of the 900 could have done.

Interesting work. But not for me. The politics among the kitty cats beyond their prime upstairs ugh. rwar, hiss, claw etc.

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They would be better off by getting the packages to fly themselves and load them up on airplane then open the cargo door up inthe sky and let em fly
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They'd land all over the place. Hope the yard don't have a guard dog. Lol. People would be outside looking up like they was throwing shirts at a concert. Lol.

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I see this as the circle of ups dumping money into things to make them look forward thinking and they will probably be saying how good for the environment it will be because less trucks on the road..it's all about looking like they are doing something even if they aren't. Kinda like the hybrid truck push... failure but they were gonna save the Earth. Kinda like the few billion they dumped into the rail system a few years back, it was gonna get everything done faster and take trucks off the road but now they are quitting with all the trains and hiring sleeper teams like crazy because the trains didn't work out. Going to dvir in the diad to save paper and save trees, now there is no paper trail for the pre trips on trucks...not gonna last lol. This is one of many many pr schemes that unless you work for them you don't understand how they just use it to look good and you never hear about the failed outcomes of it. They will NEVER put drones on a package car for a driver to have to operate, it's too much of a distraction for the driver to have to think about it, it's too much cost for it to get damaged in the truck, it will take up too much space in a truck that already doesn't have enough space for packages in it. The cost alone of putting them on trucks and training people to use them will stop it from ever happening, this is a company that still has trucks with no power steering in their fleet lol.
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To add to this UPS is always looking to be the first at everything when it comes to delivery. They like to be the leader whether it will work or not. They don't want a competitor to do it first and be successful.

But with the drone on the package car, the drone was on the roof. Driver can feed the drone a package from from inside the van. Then fly it to a backyard, or down a long driveway.
Whether it happens or not is a whole different story. But it did look feasible.

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I hear ya. They keep refining this technology though and theyre always in pursuit of saving man hours because it saves them money and boosts profit. I dont think drones will deliver every package, but I could see them reducing man hours in the driver jobs by 30% or more. Less man hours means less drivers. I could also see them consolidating terminals as drones take on more of the load.
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There's no way of escaping it. Technology will always be replacing humans. And no career field is safe. They have some form of automation in the works to replace doctors, surgeons, construction workers. You name it! Even soldiers!
Labor is a cost all companies are working diligently to shed.

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I bet you the ranch that is what going to happen, and UPS will go away.
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Nope. There joining with FedEx. There going to call themselves" FedUp" Lol

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They've/we've already been doing this for a few years----to deliver medical supplies to remote villages in Africa. Very light viles of blood. Don't have time to provide the link, and even then i'm not sure if i'm allowed to post it.

So, i'm not sure if FAA approval was need for Africa?

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