State laws govern the lunch time rules and regulations, NOT UPS.
You must first research your state laws relating to lunch and meal periods.
In most states, if you are operating a company vehicle, you are ON THE CLOCK. You must be relieved of this by parking the truck and turning off the engine. The company CANNOT mandate you shut the truck down in the middle of noplace and begin your lunch.
A "reasonable" distance for each route must be established as no 2 routes are the same.
Where I am, they tried this and failed miserably. We have challenged the company to "reloop" all the drivers into a commercial area during the 4th and 5th hour in order for drivers to be in an area where they can effectively stop and keep the mileage down reasonably.
The TEAMSTERS have NOTHING to do with the new rules layed down by UPS despite the rediculous claim made by hoaxster.
The drivers would like to help out UPS and its quest to save mileage and fuel, but when routes are looped miles away from a business district, it becomes unfair to prevent a driver from having the opportunity to use a clean restroom, wash hands, stay cool in the heat, or stay warm in the cold.
Indeed, some jerkoff in an office setting layed down this program nationwide without the experience of ever driving a package car.
I am sure he was a "red kneed" junior executive who ran as fast as he could to the vice president of operations with numbers in hand on how much money he was going to save the company.
The real joke is, the tons of miles that are being wasted on the other side of the coin by its supervisors and IE with rediculous dispatches.
The old adage "UPS is watching pennies while the dollars fly out of the building" applies when it comes to the .25 restriction.