When you order something from say UPS how does it get to you?

I'm just curious. I ordered a bat and I am tracking it. It came from Dallas, TX and it's going here to Connecticut. It's UPS Ground. Does a contracted driver take it all the way from Texas to Connecticut or is this done within UPS by way of relaying the load all the way?

 

well first a man in a little brown straight truck (or Tractor trailer if its a major shipper) from UPS Parcel will go to the shipper in Dallas, TX and pick it up and take it back to the terminal. Then it will be loaded on a trailer either going to your closest terminal or in that direction, with a distance that far it will more then likely be relayed a few times and unloaded and reloaded a few times before it makes it to your local UPS terminal and will then be loaded on yet another Straight truck and another guy in brown short shorts will deliver it to your home...




American Trucker

 

Or if they get backed up theyll just drop kick it into a plane and air freight it along with 10k other things.

You should be concerned about the condition it arrives.

 

and with luck, won't be broken.

 

or tossed over the fence

 

if you think UPS is bad, you should see what happens to you stuff when you ship it on one of our trucks lol. I've seen cases of shatered glass loaded on city trailers to be delivered....with fragile stickers all over it haha




American Trucker

 

My father in law worked at said yellow truck company based in Michigan plus I run loads weekly out of the ATL terminal.


I'd rather ship by donkey.

 

I've said it before, but I'll repeat it here. When you look at the amount of handling that each individual package gets when it is shipped from the point of sale to the end user, it is amazing that ANYTHING survives.

For that reason alone, I will do my best to buy what I need off the shelf in the store. That way I can see the condition of it at time of purchase. Of course there are some things that it just isn't possible to buy that way, but it is the only way to insure that you get what you paid for, in the condition you paid for it, and in a timely manner.

 

UPS ships a lot of trailers on the rails. They just load the trailers onto a flatbed rail car, piggyback, as it's called and it's on it's way to a rail terminal. From there it's picked up by UPS and taken to one of their sorting facilities near you.

 

Wouldn't it be a linehaul situation? Driver A goes from A to B, Driver B goes from B to C, Driver C goes from C to D etc, all drop hook.