UPS Freight Diary:

I did 2-3 resi's a day with OD and brought in about 140 a year in tips. It was always the residential stops that were the easiest of almost any stop of the day that seemed to tip. Rich neighborhoods you get treated exactly as you are: A truck driver.

 

I saw a chick feeder driver this morning, thought dang, somewhere there's a man with no sandwich.

 

I figured the OP would only reply either in the morning or at night, no time to look at the phone when you do LTL P&D, unless you have a bidded run and you know your area. It's rush rush rush. You have to make corporate and industrial pickups and deliveries, resi deliveries, set it all up, figure out the directions (because they give you no directions), filling out the diad scanner, and HOPING dispatch don't add any pickups, because they always do. Very stressful as a newbie.

 

You still work on the docks, or only on slow days? Hard to believe those dock workers make $70-80k a year.

 

Dock workers at ups make 70-80k? Or u mean the drivers who work the dock? Didn't think the freight company's paid the dock workers that good if so I'll have to apply

 

Yep. Their full-time dock workers. They usually come in the afternoon, after the P&D guys come back with their pickups. They unload the P&D trailers, and reload onto the night time line haul trailers. Easy work, driving a forklift all day. They get paid just as much as the P&D divers, just a dollar less. So you figure top rate is $28 an hour for them, work about 10 hours a day, OT after 8, and if you do the math, it's ridiculous money for driving a forklift all day.

 

wow thanks for the info always thought they only make like $15hr

 

It's about $16 to start. Just like the P&D drivers, it takes 4 years to reach top rate. So if you can manage to live off of that, in the long run, it'll pay off.

 

You still work on slow days? I know even though it's a union shop, your not guaranteed 40 hours. It seems that's how the Freight industry works. On slow day, no pay.