UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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In your short time here, can you see the advantages of the contractor business model over the employer/employee model?
Fedex vs UPS,who's better to work for?
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In your short time here, can you see the advantages of the contractor business model over the employer/employee model?
APettyJ makes a good point. I often tease the Express folks around here that with the coming changes at Express that, "We are all Ground now." Increasingly the folks at UPS are beginning to realize the same thing. That we have to canabalize a portion of the Express operations means little if it coincides with continuing growth in market share, namely taking packages off Brown trucks and planes.
HomeDelivery
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granted HD is one of the lowest paid opcos on the purple side, but it's also the easiest.
No juggling time-commits or pickup deadlines (except for the rare appointment deliveries, where you break the ROADs trace). you drive to a certain zip code & deliver the load, then off to the next zip code without looping back to the same area...
contractors should be paying for sort/load time and a minimum dead-head time from/to the barn to the service area. That's the only gripe i have about this opco. (well no sick pay, vacation pay as well)
No juggling time-commits or pickup deadlines (except for the rare appointment deliveries, where you break the ROADs trace). you drive to a certain zip code & deliver the load, then off to the next zip code without looping back to the same area...
contractors should be paying for sort/load time and a minimum dead-head time from/to the barn to the service area. That's the only gripe i have about this opco. (well no sick pay, vacation pay as well)
bottomups
Bad Moon Risen'
If it makes you feel any better, I just finished my 6th week of paid vacation and only have 4 days left for the rest of the year.
My goodness! You've worked an awful lot this year! See? It's all relative.
Michigander88
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No. I see no advantages for the contractor model. They recently made a change so there are no longer single route contractors anymore. You have to own at least three routes. So many single route contractors sold theirs to another one who has a larger business and just worked for them.
It would be way too much of a headache. Trying to find good reliable drivers that will put in a lot of work for $600 wk and no bennies or anything. Dealing with FedEx Ground, call offs, breakdowns. Way too much stress. I'd much rather be a UPS driver!
It would be way too much of a headache. Trying to find good reliable drivers that will put in a lot of work for $600 wk and no bennies or anything. Dealing with FedEx Ground, call offs, breakdowns. Way too much stress. I'd much rather be a UPS driver!
rocket man
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Let's just say the pay can be well worth the headache.
Orlandoboomstick
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Drivers for FedEx work through a contractor. Meaning FedEx doesn't own or deal with their own trucks or direct driver employees except for express and some ground and a few others. I work for a contractor delivering for FedEx. We deliver very heavy stuff a lot, that ups and USPS will not take. We have full benefits. PTO. I drive a brand new nissan van. I've never worked for USPS or ups. I'm sure they're great. I'd definitely be interested in possibly going over to one of them if the pay and benefits are more and if it's just as stress free and relaxed. I heard UPS can't go in driveways a lot or reverse, I do this a lot haha. Never a problem.
Did you really create a new account just to reopen a six year old thread?
MyTripisCut
Never bought my own handtruck
Stay where you’re at....
Considering that most of his post was moronic to begin with, I’m not sure you’ll get a good answer.
Yolo
Well-Known Member
Thanks to ORION we don't need to reverse.
, more money, benefits, a better company and in exchange I have to drive smarter...yea, sounds good.
Maple Grove MN Driver
Cocaine Mang!
Is it @UpstateNYUPSer
OrioN
double tap o da horn dooshbag
I reverse up customers driveway s all the time!
Nose out to the street is always safer for me...
One driver had run over a feral cat that had prompted the customer to do this:
Rack em
Made the Podium
Why you got a G.I Joe hanging up?
542thruNthru
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Lol!!!! Sure pal. Heavy stuff in a Nissan VAN. Tell me about these huge packages you have in your VAN that UPS won't deliver.
That's because we have a TRUCK not a little van.
Yeet
Not gonna let ‘em catch the Midnight Rider
Yup. Crack a driveway and it goes down as an accident.
542thruNthru
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Hell, leave a tire mark and it's a accident.
