Id rather take the worse bid route and know my area (as long as its not a training route because you always get bumped by noobs). Doesnt matter how many stop they think I should do on a route. I set my own pace and my management teams knows/hates me for it.
I'll stick with my never knowing what I'm doing on a daily basis. I cover one of those crappy routes you talk about and I wouldn't want to do it everyday and my SUP knows that. I know about 18 routes in the center that I'm in now and a lot are routes that have senior drivers on them.... I'll take my chances in my case it a better chance I'm getting a good route that a bad on a daily basis.
i guess my question would be, its a crappy route to you now, but do you think it would get easier and more comfortable with time and increased area knowledge?
Are you a bonus center?
Are you able to bump everyday, or bid for the week?
Are you a runner?
To answer the OP, I will take my crappy bid route over floating. Tired of the daily bumps and shuffles by the more senior cover drivers. A game that I also played with those below me. Just got tired of not knowing and all the daily bumps and moves.
Not in a bonus center the only bonus we get is .33 hr bonus if we work over 10 hrs.
We don't pick and choose are routes that we over they put us where we have area knowledge, We don't bid routes we bid a cover position for a specific area during the bi-annul bid.
I guess that what you call a runner. I follow the methods and get the job done. Some days I get out early other days I'm over 9.5 it all depends on the route and the load for the given day..
how many hours do you average? you take your lunch and breaks obviously. just wondering how much overtime you get with that mentality. i'm not saying there is anything wrong with the way you do things, i just know not everyone wants to work all night and they are willing to cut corners to get home earlier, which could be a recipe for disaster in my opinion. i'm hoping to find a happy medium between the two mentalities so i dont always get stuck working late. main priority would be to work/drive safe so i don't kill myself or others racing to finish every night.
Just something i was curious about based on what i've talked to older guys in the hub that recently went to driving school...
some went for saturday air, some went for cover driving, some went for full-time.
Saturday air, obviously work in the hub during the week then drive on saturday.
cover driving...cover vacations and such? do they eventually go full time after a certain amount of time? or are you stuck as a cover driver for your time at ups
full-time...full time m-friend driver pretty straight forward
my question is why would anyone go cover driving if it seems like such an uncertain job with no guarantees you'll actually be working?
52 hours last week. 48.5 this week.