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<blockquote data-quote="raceanoncr" data-source="post: 445360" data-attributes="member: 6408"><p>You might want to find out exactly what these "brokers" are doing/pulling. By that I mean, are they drop shipments, where the shipper is using UPS but loading full trailers being pulled by outside contractors to skip zones, saving shipping costs, pulling to a UPS hub. If that's the case, it's out of our hands. The shipper is the one that is arranging the broker or contractor. </p><p> </p><p>If it is merely contractors pulling peak or seasonal loads out of a hub or center and regular feeder drivers are sitting home or have hours available to run extra runs, then there is a grievance. I know, the company tried this reasoning on us, saying they had to guarantee the contractors so many days, runs, hours, etc, so we couldn't take those. In sleepers, we ran extra runs every peak season on our regular days off. We had the hours available, the time, the willingness, while one contractor either got paid to sit home or just sat home.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="raceanoncr, post: 445360, member: 6408"] You might want to find out exactly what these "brokers" are doing/pulling. By that I mean, are they drop shipments, where the shipper is using UPS but loading full trailers being pulled by outside contractors to skip zones, saving shipping costs, pulling to a UPS hub. If that's the case, it's out of our hands. The shipper is the one that is arranging the broker or contractor. If it is merely contractors pulling peak or seasonal loads out of a hub or center and regular feeder drivers are sitting home or have hours available to run extra runs, then there is a grievance. I know, the company tried this reasoning on us, saying they had to guarantee the contractors so many days, runs, hours, etc, so we couldn't take those. In sleepers, we ran extra runs every peak season on our regular days off. We had the hours available, the time, the willingness, while one contractor either got paid to sit home or just sat home. [/QUOTE]
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