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AND get paid to make the drive.The difference here is that you report to duty at the center while the sat driver reports to duty at the sat location.
AND get paid to make the drive.The difference here is that you report to duty at the center while the sat driver reports to duty at the sat location.
Holy cow! I never knew this site existed!!!
I've heard that in other areas they've cancelled this satellite route deal but apparently not here. Are they all over the US still? By the time the other UPS driver gets up there to load my husband's truck and all the other expenses of this - I don't know how in the world they can really save that much money. But I guess a nickel is a nickel to UPS??
I thought my husband said that they are supposed to reimburse your fuel but there is no way or reason to try to even fight it to get it because they won't. Maybe they don't at all - period - and he had that wrong. You can never get a real answer out of management here. But the gas is real expensive for us.
Does anyone have any info on these routes? What we may be able to do to get reimbursement? Or just to complain with me?? Don't get me wrong... UPS has provided a lot for us! But we just want him to drive out of the center. Soon he should be bumped up hopefully and he'll get off that route. Hopefully!!!
Thanks!
Moving the rte back to home center for vacation is SOP here, however that isn't what Browngirl is talking about. Her hubby is assigned to that rte as the regular driver. The BA can't help him.browngirl, have your husband talk to his business agent. I have seen in the past when a driver gets stuck on a sat route that they don't want to be on to cover vacations. UPS had the route moved back to the center for that week(s). Its worth a shot.
Moving the rte back to home center for vacation is SOP here, however that isn't what Browngirl is talking about. Her hubby is assigned to that rte as the regular driver. The BA can't help him.
First of all, employees not on the clock are not supposed to be riding in a UPS vehicle. Second, the route is rarely finished by the time the feed returns to the center.Tex, this may sound naive but why couldn't the OP's husband drive to the center and then ride (unpaid) with the sat drop driver, load and then deliver his area, and then ride back (again, unpaid) to the center with the sat pickup driver? It would save the wear and tear and gas expenses on his personal vehicle.
Also, how do optional and/or sick days work for a sat driver? Does the route go back to the center on those days or does the cover driver have to drive to the sat location? If so, could the cover driver ride with the drop driver as outlined above?
Tell him to suck it up and be a man when your low in seniority you have to take what you can get.
First of all, employees not on the clock are not supposed to be riding in a UPS vehicle. Second, the route is rarely finished by the time the feed returns to the center.
We don't have "sick days" as such here but can use the Opt3 days for that purpose. If the center knows in advance and the communications are good (not likely) they will load the Sat rte in the center and run it out of there for the day. If (as usual) they don't get it loaded they send the cover driver out in an extra car to drive, on the clock, to and from. If they don't have an extra PC, the cover driver uses his own vehicle and gets paid mileage for that day.
There are other scenarios but these are the most common.
browngirl, have your husband talk to his business agent. I have seen in the past when a driver gets stuck on a sat route that they don't want to be on to cover vacations. UPS had the route moved back to the center for that week(s). Its worth a shot.
That's the practice we have here at 407.
There usually is either a meet point on area where the Sat driver gives his P/Us to the feed driver or the Sat driver drops everything at the TP60. I promise you, if the sat driver is finishing way under allowed and before the feed driver, it won't be long until some stops will be moved to the sat driver and lord help him if he under dispatches a few times. That has happened to every Sat driver of ours in the last five years.If your husband finishes before the other driver how do his pickup pieces get back to the center? Does he have to go to the sat start point and dump his pickups before finishing his area?
Not exactly a bid run, the sat rte wasn't bid by anyone and the OP's hubby was assigned the rte due to being the lowest sr driver. The difference is OP's hubby didn't ask for this stuff.The OP has the sat route as his bid run so this would not apply.
Not exactly a bid run, the sat rte wasn't bid by anyone and the OP's hubby was assigned the rte due to being the lowest sr driver. The difference is OP's hubby didn't ask for this stuff.
While you "hicks" were dealing with semantics, you missed the whole "women peeing in a bucket in the garage." WHAT??!!!!! Some guys would bid onto this route just for that. I deliver a somewhat rural route and have never encountered any women peeing in a bucket. That would be a first. And "hick" may apply here.