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UPS North: Driving a package car in The Last Frontier
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<blockquote data-quote="AKCoverMan" data-source="post: 2047695" data-attributes="member: 17867"><p><strong>Alaska Feeders: It's not a long seniority list</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p>While most of UPS volume moves in the lower 48 via the ground system, here we simply don't have the have the highways. </p><p></p><p>We currently have four feeder jobs in Alaska and they all operate five days a week.</p><p></p><p>The route between Anchorage and Fairbanks accounts for the first two jobs. A driver at each end takes off every evening about 2300, usually pulling doubles. (There are no triples allowed in Alaska.). These two drivers meet at a midway point where they exchange rigs, and come back to their home town arriving about 0700. Probably the best two jobs in the state, no loading just show up hook up, turn around, drop off, go home. But I would hate being on overnights forever.</p><p></p><p>There is another route from Anchorage to the Kenai center. This is run by one Anchorage driver who leaves about 0330, gets to Kenai and helps with unloading and reloading then comes back to Anchorage about noon. It's a bit over three hours each way.</p><p></p><p>The final and newest run is a local feeder run from Anchorage to the satellite building in Wasilla. He unloads the feeder on to rollers while the satellite drivers load their own cars, then come back with clerk items and pickups from the previous day. During parts of fishing season this job also picks up a trailer of NDA fish from a large seafood shipper here in Anchorage.</p><p></p><p>Besides these four bid jobs we have a couple of package car drivers who are feeder qualified and will be pulled of package to cover vacations etc.</p><p></p><p>The center manager of the Anchorage Center wears Alaska Feeder Manager as a "second hat".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AKCoverMan, post: 2047695, member: 17867"] [B]Alaska Feeders: It's not a long seniority list [/B] While most of UPS volume moves in the lower 48 via the ground system, here we simply don't have the have the highways. We currently have four feeder jobs in Alaska and they all operate five days a week. The route between Anchorage and Fairbanks accounts for the first two jobs. A driver at each end takes off every evening about 2300, usually pulling doubles. (There are no triples allowed in Alaska.). These two drivers meet at a midway point where they exchange rigs, and come back to their home town arriving about 0700. Probably the best two jobs in the state, no loading just show up hook up, turn around, drop off, go home. But I would hate being on overnights forever. There is another route from Anchorage to the Kenai center. This is run by one Anchorage driver who leaves about 0330, gets to Kenai and helps with unloading and reloading then comes back to Anchorage about noon. It's a bit over three hours each way. The final and newest run is a local feeder run from Anchorage to the satellite building in Wasilla. He unloads the feeder on to rollers while the satellite drivers load their own cars, then come back with clerk items and pickups from the previous day. During parts of fishing season this job also picks up a trailer of NDA fish from a large seafood shipper here in Anchorage. Besides these four bid jobs we have a couple of package car drivers who are feeder qualified and will be pulled of package to cover vacations etc. The center manager of the Anchorage Center wears Alaska Feeder Manager as a "second hat". [/QUOTE]
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