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any HD or Ground temp drivers in your terminal already?
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<blockquote data-quote="HomeDelivery" data-source="post: 888298" data-attributes="member: 33696"><p>depends on what you like to deliver to...</p><p></p><p>Ground has bigger vehicles to drive around & is closer to UPS operations than Home Delivery. they have a "tighter area" and you go in circles within a selected city doing pickups/ dropoffs to mainly business addresses & more backing into docks...</p><p></p><p>I don't like ground that much because your straight truck is packed by pre-loaders for you & you don't have a set list of every package/address on your truck when you come in. Plus you have deadlines to do your pickups before they close for the day. More volume to deal with & more chaotic than HD</p><p></p><p>I hated driving to residential suburban neighborhoods in a 24' straight van, so I stuck with HD instead.</p><p></p><p>There, you'll walk in to your pile of boxes & will have to load them in sequential order. </p><p>With the temp agency, they'll pay you by the hour; but with a contractor, you won't get paid for doing this part of the job. The main plus of this is that you'll know EVERY package that is going into your package van for the day & will get a printout of every single parcel that you scanned and labeled on your vehicle as well as a map that connects-the-dots for you. Heck, the vehicle routing program will also print out a turn-by-turn list to go from one stop to the next.</p><p></p><p>As a temp in either case, they'll start you off with less stops than the average driver & if you are a good worker, they'll give you more or give you the areas that are further from the hub/terminal (=more hours & more pay with the temp agency)</p><p></p><p>------------------------</p><p>as peak ends, though, so is this job unless you prove that you have what it takes to be productive and can handle a high workload daily. That's why I suggested staying on the Brown side on your other thread you made. Because once you made a shift from getting paid per hour to getting a flat salary or pay per stop, you're going to regret it...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HomeDelivery, post: 888298, member: 33696"] depends on what you like to deliver to... Ground has bigger vehicles to drive around & is closer to UPS operations than Home Delivery. they have a "tighter area" and you go in circles within a selected city doing pickups/ dropoffs to mainly business addresses & more backing into docks... I don't like ground that much because your straight truck is packed by pre-loaders for you & you don't have a set list of every package/address on your truck when you come in. Plus you have deadlines to do your pickups before they close for the day. More volume to deal with & more chaotic than HD I hated driving to residential suburban neighborhoods in a 24' straight van, so I stuck with HD instead. There, you'll walk in to your pile of boxes & will have to load them in sequential order. With the temp agency, they'll pay you by the hour; but with a contractor, you won't get paid for doing this part of the job. The main plus of this is that you'll know EVERY package that is going into your package van for the day & will get a printout of every single parcel that you scanned and labeled on your vehicle as well as a map that connects-the-dots for you. Heck, the vehicle routing program will also print out a turn-by-turn list to go from one stop to the next. As a temp in either case, they'll start you off with less stops than the average driver & if you are a good worker, they'll give you more or give you the areas that are further from the hub/terminal (=more hours & more pay with the temp agency) ------------------------ as peak ends, though, so is this job unless you prove that you have what it takes to be productive and can handle a high workload daily. That's why I suggested staying on the Brown side on your other thread you made. Because once you made a shift from getting paid per hour to getting a flat salary or pay per stop, you're going to regret it... [/QUOTE]
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