Category: UPS News

A Clay County resident and commercial truck driver braves a Jacksonville-to-Tallahassee commute every day and is celebrating a quarter of a century of safe driving.

Alise Lyke, a Green Cove Springs resident and Orange Park High graduate, is celebrating 25 years of safe driving with UPS. Originally a criminal justice major, a conversation with a convincing friend pivoted her toward UPS in 1990.

“A good friend of mine approached me with a job and an opportunity, I just happened to be at the right place at the right time,” she said.

Money and benefits are one thing, but Lyke favored the company’s strict regimen. She likes being involved in how people and business function.

When director Jordan Rodericks saw The Martin Agency’s deck for UPS, supporting the Small Businesses of Augusta, GA, he felt compelled to make his own edit.

“I’m not an editor. But as a long time producer, one of the most important things I’ve watched directors do is create their vision for the agency, the earlier the better.” His edit clinched the job for SpangTV and soon they were off to Augusta, GA.

This creative brief focused on small business owners as the true ‘pros’ of Augusta and the energy of their day-to-day lives.

“The concept that the team at the Martin Agency presented was perfect for Jordan,” said Melanie Cox, executive producer at SpangTV. “The rhythm of their script felt so much like the ESPN work he had done previously. From the beginning he wanted to scout locations and people and include some of his own photography too; I think his fingerprint is right there with the creatives.”

Multiple converging trends in satellite communications (SATCOM), the Internet of Things (IoT), and connected devices are creating a unique opportunity in the aviation industry. With the amount of data capable of being delivered to and streamed off of planes to stakeholders on the ground, there is a massive opportunity for innovation and advancement inflight safety and efficiency.

One of the companies at the forefront of leveraging data and advanced technologies to make their flights safer and more efficient is the delivery giant, UPS. The company operates more than 1,200 flights per day and owns a fleet of almost 300 aircraft. And they’re constantly looking for ways to make those aircraft and flights more connected so they can streamline operations and make flight crews safer.

We recently sat down with Kevin Swiatek, the Flight Operations Manager at UPS, to take a deep dive into some of the technology trends enabling digital transformation on aircraft, and the advanced technologies that could soon become reality as a result.

UPS Inc. is testing the delivery waters. Literally.

The transport and logistics giant is participating in a trial program to transport five trailers round trip by barge across 4.5 miles of New York Harbor from Red Hook, Brooklyn, to Bayonne, New Jersey. This is the first time UPS has experimented with short-sea shipping, a model designed as a delivery alternative to moving goods on congested roads and bridges.

The trial is being conducted in partnership with the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MarAd), Red Hook Terminals, Hughes Marine and the New York City Economic Development Corp., UPS said in a LinkedIn post on Monday. It is believed that the journey took place last Friday.

 

United Parcel Service Inc. retirees who sued the federal government over a 2014 pension law that authorized 29% cuts to their benefits advanced their lawsuit alleging an unconstitutional governmental taking of property, according to a U.S. Court of Federal Claims ruling.

The retirees have a valid property interest in their right to receive unreduced payments of their vested pension benefits under the terms of their plan, Judge Richard A. Hertling said in an April 8 opinion.

He denied the government’s request for summary judgment on the retirees’ claim under the Fifth Amendment’s takings clause.

He said the retirees’ property interest under the plan wasn’t significantly diminished based on the plan’s subjection to the “robust regulatory framework” of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code.