Difficult time backing

[Express Courier]

I'm surprised that's a real person doing that. This screams 9/11 conspiracy. You'd have to plan to do that.

 

[MrFedEx]

Very professional. Plus, he looks like a thug. I like how he is too cool to pickup the part of the truck he left in the parking lot. Loser Ground punk.

 

[dezguy]

Man, that was some high quality driving right there.

Just think, we're on the road daily with people like this...

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Man, that's a crapy backing job by that GROUND driver, but in his defense it is hard to back into a dark shaded area from bright sunlight.

We had a driver in his 30 day who was disqualified for an accident while trying to back in to the building. He was going from bright sunshine to a dark shaded area. He should have either moved one of the parked pkg cars or asked for help. He was sent back to the preload and has since qualified and is a cover driver.

 

[Cactus]

I'm surprised that reverse actually works....

That's a luxury feature on a Ground vehicle.

 

[olroadbeech]

he may have been very tired. when im tired I have a harder time backing.

 

[BigTex61]

That's a luxury feature on a Ground vehicle.

Now that's funny!

 

[Route 66]

I'm surprised that reverse actually works....

I think it was gravity.....nothing at all he could've done to prevent it....and notice how he manage to not hit a schoolyard full of children during recess?....guy's a national hero in my book.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

he may have been very tired. when im tired I have a harder time backing.

I would have to be unconscious to back that poorly.

 

[Purplepackage]

I would have to be unconscious to back that poorly.

He's not even attempting to turn the wheel, Im under the impression he never learned how to drive a normal car let alone a package car

 

[MrFedEx]

I would have to be unconscious to back that poorly.

That's about right. I don't even think he was using his mirrors. It's like he was parking using the Braille Method. Note that he never did get it parked properly, but just left it in the center of the lot. And people wonder why we poke fun at Ground.

 

[Route 66]

Instead of practicing the old, time-wasting GOAL method, this guy was employing the new, more efficient KBTISE (Keep Backing Til It Sounds Expensive) one.

 

[bbsam]

That's a luxury feature on a Ground vehicle.

Not so. Reverse is rarely a problem. 2nd and 4th gear synchros are usually suspect.

 

[Myleftsideistan]

with how bright the sun is that dock would be a black hole for the mirrors and camera. He should've just got out and got a game plan instead of just guessing

 

[NonyaBiznes]

I ha seen UPS trainees as bad. A couple of them it was obvious would never qualify but they were given the full 30 days first. They couldn't discriminate against the black woman for one and they had other reasons to be very careful about getting rid of the others.

Is this a white guy? Wonder if he was fired? And no you can't discriminate against the black woman, white woman, black guy, white guy or anyone else!

 

[Fedup5829491]

There should be a minimal skill set to be hired to drive. Same kind of new employees at express. We have some new people that can't read maps, and get lost getting back to station. Unbelievable.

I don't think Ground has to take any type of driving class. If you see the way they drive it's obvious they didn't teach them backing techniques.

 

[Fedup5829491]

Our station just hired someone who is probably worse than that. She has backed into the two trucks parked on either side of her, has rubbed the poles that are next to the bay door on multiple occasions and sideswiped one of the support columns in our sta. How she still has a job at FedEx is beyond me.

The manager didn't make her go back to driving school?

 

[Fedup5829491]

People rub bumpers all the time in station and never say anything about it they just hop out make sure the bumpers are on and leave the building

One night the new CTV driver didn't account for the length of the trailer and turned too sharp. She took out part of the building and a concrete poll. I didn't see her anymore after that.

 

[sandwich]

Its not his fault, the trucks not an ambi turner

 

[whenIgetthere]

We had a new CTV driver come in about a year ago. He pulls into the parking lot, gets out and asks me to back it into the dock, says it's too sharp a turn for him. I told him to go see a manager since I don't have a CDL-A.