What are you guys doing about the food products, such as Omaha and QVC?
Since snow / blizzard storm from last week has delayed trains coming in with all of it's ups's trailers and volume in it. Today, I was there for air service and I saw like over 100,000 packages in my hub that never got done. The package that delayed service to our customers were NDA, 2DA, 3DA, Ground, and International packages from all over the world that came to our hub were sit there and didn't get delivered in time to our customers. I feel bad that our customers are so furious that they didn't get the gift for christmas this year. There's no drivers helpers, only one or two additional rentals trucks, and it's worse peak I have ever seen in my entire life of nearly 13 1/2 years in service. Even though, a lot of volume will sit there in hub thru christmas eve, christmas day till friday and hoping to get it all delivered but I don't think so because more trailers will be unloaded on friday morning so doesn't look good to get any thing done till next week before new years. Right now I just couldn't believe it in my eyes of what I am seeing this and it just never seen such too many service failures in my life like this.
BFI had quite possibly the worst chain events to make the WORST last day of peak ever.
Don't worry, during snow storms UPS upgrades all its trailers to refrigerated storage by parking them in snow drifts! Sucks for the Monavie customers though.What are you guys doing about the food products, such as Omaha and QVC?
I have never seen anything like this before and it's the worst mother nature since 1990 and 1996 respectively.
There were virtually no delivery service failures do to snow in 1996.
Our NW town shut down in 1996. A state of emergency was declared and everyone was ordered off the roads. The national guard was called in.
That was up north, wasn't it? Not in Seattle, Seattle was business as usual. Only missed one or two buildings due to driver laziness not weather.
Here's a quick tip, Carry a tow rope (if you can find one) sometimes all you need is someone with a heavy duty truck to pull you out to get you going. As a poster noted minimal wait time 6 hrs for tow ain't joking. It can be awfully lonely waiting out there on a deserted street.
Our NW town shut down in 1996. A state of emergency was declared and everyone was ordered off the roads. The national guard was called in.
That was up north, wasn't it? Not in Seattle, Seattle was business as usual. Only missed one or two buildings due to driver laziness not weather.
Well according from last night, still many drivers that I've seen at the hub still brought package back in even if it wasn't delivered so still make the matters worse anyway.
I brought my own tow strap, and got pulled 4 times yesterday. Management actually paged me to pull other drivers out when they got stuck.
On my way back to the buiding last night I was towing my pup trailer. The driver ahead of me was also towing a trailer, and when he turned off of the main highway (which had been plowed) he got high-centered in the ruts and the pile of plowed snow on the side street. I gunned it to keep up my speed, went around him, and made it thru the intersection. I took my pup trialer back to the building, dropped it, and went back to the stuck driver. With other package cars blocking traffic, I hooked up to the bumper of the stuck truck and was able to pull him and his pup trailer out of the snow bank and through the ruts.
Does this mean I get paid for pulling triples?