Well personally its not a conflict of interest if your huckin boxes.
I doubt your daily work could affect one or the other company.
Now if your driving for both, then you have both DOT and company issues.
Not to mention its none of their business.(unless you could adversely affect one or the other companies) ie if you were a manager, or sales person...
BTW best practices(fedex express) and methods(UPS) are very much alike.
There are a few things different, but nothing earth shattering.
Both train using the smith system for driving(5 seeing habits)
Hardest one for me to get used to is not entering information while walking(fedex frowns on that...) oh yeah and driving with the driver side
door open is not allowed at Express.
Oh CBP... how I miss you. It taught me the seatbelt-clip-while-turning-the-ignition-key thing. the best thing about CBP was that you didn't have to memorize stupid concepts and repeat them.
and yes, walking while powerpadding is lethal. i faceplanted while doing the walk-and-type on a resi. kinda missed that curb. the hot chick on the porch liked that a lot.
working for two transport companies is definitely a
possible conflict of interest, and you, as the employee want to avoid
any possible conflict of interest. Let me just make up one
possible CoI: you work for billy bob's inner-city courier service. You deliver envelopes between legal firms. Sometimes these legal firms need to overnight stuff, and they just give it to billy bob, and he slaps on a UPS label and overnights it to wherever it has to go (a
very common practice with inner-city courier companies). let's say you work the hub at night and you handle that envelope. that's a
possible conflict of interest. and a conflict of interest is only a conflict of interest if one party makes it that way, and they easily can. billy bob wants UPS handling that, not his own courier wearing the billybob delivery service t-shirt under the ups brown shirt. if billybob finds out, he won't care, but does it still make it a possible conflict of interest? yes.
now let's say while working the hub, you see a manifest from a 5-ton that shows how much each company paid to move their boxes (i was exposed to this information a few times). you then go into working for billybob's distribution service, where they do distros through all firms. you think billybob would like to see that manifest?
of course, i'm not saying this is going to happen, but UPS and billy bob have a right to know about this. Corporate sabotage is on the rise, and in this day an age, it's even easier to do.
again, you work for UPS, i say this sort of thing should be cleared by HR. that's my opinion into it. and if it's not a conflict of interest, UPS won't care.
Yea, I just want to get a fill of what its like in the delivery field. I understand that UPS will be like apples and oranges to other companies methods. It's the people skill's and "whats it like" I want to gain and know.
Another question...Is it possible to relocate to another local area HUB(IE: from "Dallas" hub to "DFW Airport" HUB) without loosing senority?
Definitelytry the delivery thing for a few weeks. You're either made for it or not. You either love routing boxes and working under extreme pressure with no boss on your back or you'd rather be in an office. I would only do it if I need money. If I want to get my feet wet with the whole courier thing, remember that you have a 30 day probation period in which you can switch back into the hub, mind you, you're not looking for a career in the hub.
At least where I work, our hub ("dallas") and the gateway ("DFW") are on the same seniority list. so to get from dallas to DFW, you have to put in time.
if it's a transfer, that's another matter. cachsux is the man to ask about that one (but he's in the mid west, and possibly under a different contract than texas).
