Ups////Fedex 2 questions

[redshift1]

You've obviously never driven package car. And if you have, you have a cream puff route and are blind to what happens to your fellow drivers. Yes we make 60 to 70k a year and some of us make 100k on our extended routes. Package car is one stress after another with time commits and then, if we don't get done in a timely manner, we get grief from our management to kick it out more. Some of the routes I've done are impossible to get done in a timely manner and then they have the gall to demand that we magically find the time to get sales leads. I get the feeling that I could turn in 10 sales leads in one day and still get in trouble for being over dispatch.

In the case of utility drivers I would agree with you but a competent experienced driver on his own route has the time to make sales calls on a normal day. Of course late air, inclement weather and misloads can diminish the time available.

 

[MrFedEx]

1. I don't doubt this, but on the other hand I have heard that UPS won't take a pkg just to have it--they have to have a profit from it (What about the LL Bean acct UPS will be taking over soon?). DHL was a lo-ball carrier, most of the customers they had were not nearly as concerned with service as they were with $$ per pkg.

2. You have to understand where this guy is coming from, his job is SALES. His job performance is measured by SALES--he's not in the operations side of the company. If I turn in 3 sales leads from my rt and they are successful, I 'get' to work 10.5 hours a day instead of 'only' 10 that I work now. You give me and my fellow drivers some help, and bring our dispatches down I will be happy to hand over potential leads.

You nailed it, especially #2. Sales is what it is, and they generally don't know (or care) squat about Ops. That's why the Sales Rep tells the customer picking-up 200+ pkgs at 6pm "won't be a problem"...he or she doesn't get it. They just want to get credit for more sales.

FedEx did pick-up some major accounts from DHL, notably Dell Computer. We are in major cut-back mode, but FedEx is still making money, just not as much.

 

[InTheRed]

If I turn in 3 sales leads from my rt and they are successful, I 'get' to work 10.5 hours a day instead of 'only' 10 that I work now. You give me and my fellow drivers some help, and bring our dispatches down I will be happy to hand over potential leads.

If the route grows another route should go in to alleviate the extra volume/stops. When the route dries up a route comes out and areas expand.

 

[29th Christmas]

Sorry, it doesn't happen that way. In the decades I've been delivering my center is always "short on drivers" or loaning them out to another ctr clear across the state!