dannyboy
From the promised LAND
i did not want to hijack another thread.....
i know many of you get on the truck 10 minutes to some more than an hour before start time. to sort through, and get in order your stops the way you are going to run them.
several thoughts.
mat waters made a wonderful observation when he posted
in our center, and every other one i ever went to, the preload is run like they are the only money making/cost effected operation in the building. they will shave off 10 minutes of a preloaders time at $12 an hour at the end of the shift, and pay the three drivers he was loading $28 an hour to load the packages.
the ability to wrap up the sort and get all the packages loaded properly is a vital part of any drivers paid day. what screws up a load is not what happens in the first 3 hours, its what happens in the last 20 minutes of the sort.
as such, ups knows that many drivers will be in their car, on their own time, trying to get the mess fixed. so the fools, yes you are foolish, play right into managements hands and give the company many hours a week overtime pay. then, in my experience, those very same drivers feel like they have to skip at least part if not all their lunch to "make service". so in the end, ups comes up with $100-$200 a week in free labor each and every week.
and the driver feels like they cant do the job without both early am time, and skipping lunch.
and to talk with them, you get the feeling of talking to your two year old into giving up their blankie and passie. you get the same reaction from both, they cant do it.
the contract is plain on this matter. UPS will not allow drivers to work off the clock. but not only do they allow, they encourage it. it makes the company millions of dollars every year.
in our building, we had about 60% of the drivers in the trucks before start time. not only the rookies, but drivers that had been there 15 years or more. the company finally began to give out warning letters to anyone in an active work area that was not on the clock. the free work stopped.
guess what, service failures did not increase. production did not decrease.
bottom line is that the company has a legal and moral responsibility to not have you on the truck before start time. if you want to get there early and sit in your cab, shut the door. otherwise stay out of your truck before start time. it is a bad habit to get into.
d
i know many of you get on the truck 10 minutes to some more than an hour before start time. to sort through, and get in order your stops the way you are going to run them.
several thoughts.
mat waters made a wonderful observation when he posted
The preload's pay is peanuts compared to a drivers overtime. Common sense tell's you that $$'s always trump PPH. That's why UPS will always be a 3 ring circus to those that work there!
in our center, and every other one i ever went to, the preload is run like they are the only money making/cost effected operation in the building. they will shave off 10 minutes of a preloaders time at $12 an hour at the end of the shift, and pay the three drivers he was loading $28 an hour to load the packages.
the ability to wrap up the sort and get all the packages loaded properly is a vital part of any drivers paid day. what screws up a load is not what happens in the first 3 hours, its what happens in the last 20 minutes of the sort.
as such, ups knows that many drivers will be in their car, on their own time, trying to get the mess fixed. so the fools, yes you are foolish, play right into managements hands and give the company many hours a week overtime pay. then, in my experience, those very same drivers feel like they have to skip at least part if not all their lunch to "make service". so in the end, ups comes up with $100-$200 a week in free labor each and every week.
and the driver feels like they cant do the job without both early am time, and skipping lunch.
and to talk with them, you get the feeling of talking to your two year old into giving up their blankie and passie. you get the same reaction from both, they cant do it.
the contract is plain on this matter. UPS will not allow drivers to work off the clock. but not only do they allow, they encourage it. it makes the company millions of dollars every year.
in our building, we had about 60% of the drivers in the trucks before start time. not only the rookies, but drivers that had been there 15 years or more. the company finally began to give out warning letters to anyone in an active work area that was not on the clock. the free work stopped.
guess what, service failures did not increase. production did not decrease.
bottom line is that the company has a legal and moral responsibility to not have you on the truck before start time. if you want to get there early and sit in your cab, shut the door. otherwise stay out of your truck before start time. it is a bad habit to get into.
d