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A UPS driver dropped off a package outside a Southwest Miami-Dade home in a dangerous way when it landed right on top of a woman’s dog.
The owner of the dog, who asked not to be identified or show her face on camera, said she was disturbed by what she described as a careless delivery.
“It’s heart-wrenching. Like, you cringe,” she said.
It’s how she felt when she looked at her surveillance video and saw a UPS driver throw her package over her fence, at around noon on Wednesday.
UPS driver Seth Johnson made a bold bet one day when he was delivering to Sheldon Auto Supply.
After Seth arrived, a FedEx truck pulled up and a woman was the driver. So, Seth bet one of the workers at the business $100 that he could get a kiss from the FedEx driver.
The guy took Seth up on the bet, and Seth went out there and gave the FedEx driver a big kiss without any hesitation.
The catch: The FedEx driver was Jen Johnson, Seth’s wife of 14 years.
United Parcel Service Inc. disclosed Tuesday that its workforce was reduced by about 9,000 employees in 2021, as job cuts in the U.S. more than offset net hiring internationally. The package delivery giant said in its 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it had 534,000 global employees at the end of 2021, excluding seasonal employees, of which 444,000 were in the U.S. and 90 were located abroad. That compares with 543,000 global employees at the end of 2020, of which 458,000 were located in the U.S. and 85,000 were located internationally. The decline in workforce seems to jibe with the company’s “better not bigger” strategy, which included the sale of some assets.
Scott Farley has done a lot of flying in his life — spending more than 12,000 hours in the air as a pilot, the last several years at the helm of an MD11, flying trans-Pacific cargo routes for UPS — but it’s nothing like the flying he’s doing this weekend just inches off the ground in Terry Haddock’s Top Fueler in his debut in the class.
“For sure there are a lot of similarities between flying a jet and driving a dragster, but they’re obviously two different machines,” he said. “Flying a big jet like that is a lot of mass to manage – 630,500 pounds fully loaded — so you’ve got to think where it’s gonna be 3, 4, 5 minutes down the road. As a pilot, you’re always looking way ahead down the runway, that same thing we do in the racecars, and yeah, an airplane is all about procedure, procedure, procedure. We do this and we get x results. And if x results aren’t happening, here’s the emergency procedure for that. And all that transfers; obviously it’s different, but it’s very familiar processing stuff.
“I’ve had engines on fire. I’ve had engine failures. We’ve had wheels separate from the airplane, and a lot of it is calm — just prioritize and let everything settle before you do anything big and that transfers as well.”
United Parcel Service (UPS), one of MOTOR’s longest-running FleetCross customers—a loyal MOTOR customer since 2005—has signed a new agreement with MOTOR for FleetCross, the premier customized tool for enterprise fleets, helping them accurately maintain their vehicles, estimate labor and find parts.
Trusted in the industry for over 25 years, FleetCross provides the right medium- and heavy-duty information faster, saving fleets money and increasing their day-to-day efficiency. MOTOR’s agreement with UPS—one of the world’s largest package delivery companies and a premier provider of global supply chain solutions—enables the company to continue to easily access the correct parts information quickly for maintaining UPS vehicles and keeping trucks on the road making deliveries.
“This agreement will help to enable UPS meet their customers’ expectations, which have increased greatly as our country contends with pandemic-related issues,” said Jeff Nosek, MOTOR’s president, “This is a vote of confidence that FleetCross is the industry’s leading ‘go-to solution’ for parts cross-referencing, mechanical labor times and repair information.”