Category: UPS News

Sean Holland has driven the same route for work every day for more than 20 years. He says it hasn’t gotten boring yet.

“It’s not your 9 to 5 job,” Holland said. “If that’s what you’re looking for, this isn’t it.”

Holland is a UPS driver in suburban Denver. He took the job in the early ’90s, and since 1995, he’s been driving the same truck: Bertha.

“I’ve had her, next month, it will be 26 years,” Holland said. “The old girl, she comes out full to the gills every day. I get rid of all that, and then we do another pickup run in the afternoon and fill it back up. There’s a sense of accomplishment that goes along with that.”

An automation process that cuts out some manual labor and speeds things up significantly, as 20,000 packages an hour can move through during their peak times.

The family of a young United Parcel Service (UPS) worker who died on the job in Waco in August has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the company.

Jose Cruz Rodriguez, Jr., 23, was found dead around 2 a.m. August 12 in the parking lot of his work, the UPS Facility at 5700 Franklin Ave.

The civil suit was filed in the State District Court of Dallas County Tuesday. Along with UPS, two of Rodriguez’ supervisors are named as defendants in the suit.

According to the petition filed by Rodriguez’ mother and father, their son died as a result of heat stroke, which was preventable, and as a result, management was negligent.

Driver Jeff Barron goes above and beyond what’s asked of him

Every Thursday over the next few weeks, we’re highlighting Central Georgians who bring positivity to people in their community.

This week, we’re celebrating UPS Driver Jeff Barron. He’s an employee that truly goes beyond the call of duty, and folks in Bleckley County believe he puts a little YAY in their day.

On weekdays, Barron spreading love and happiness to the people of Cochran.

“You get to meet so many people in their businesses and their homes, and they seem most of time they’re happy to see you because it is something they ordered they want, they’re looking for,” said Barron.

Like letter carriers at the Postal Service, UPS drivers are also facing forced overtime—and the problem is only going to get worse as the holidays get closer.

In Columbus, Ohio, a little collective action “did a lot of good for morale,” said delivery driver and Teamsters Local 413 steward Nick Perry.

The issue: UPS is ordering drivers in the top tier, called “regular package car drivers,” to work on Saturdays.

There’s already a second tier, “hybrid drivers,” who work every Saturday (and earn lower wages). But the union contract limits hybrids to 25 percent of the workforce, so UPS can’t hire any more of them.

Rather than pay all the benefits costs of hiring more regular drivers, the company is willing to pay the premium to force its existing regular drivers in on their day off so it can run more routes on the weekends.