Wild speculation

[Brownslave688]

It costs a lot of money to hire a new driver. They send them to school for a week and pay them. Then they baby them and give them a 6 hour dispatch.
Plus all the safety time them pay them.

You know that's what cracked me up about too much OT during peak.

It was the seasonals going out with 5/6 planned days and working 10-11 hours. Lol

 

[rod]

It costs a lot of money to hire a new driver. They send them to school for a week and pay them. Then they baby them and give them a 6 hour dispatch.
Plus all the safety time them pay them.

I won't argue that they invest a lot of $$$ in training a new driver. My point was that they will have a whole bunch of trained drivers they won't call in. This whole hiring/laying off thing is puzzling? We have two different threads going at the same time. One about all the new people being trained and one about centers laying off 40+ drivers. What's up with that????

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

I think we are going to take on more Amazon after the good peak season we had and then I bet we are getting close to securing some big accounts. I haven't heard anything from the management side, but I know our HR guy has been on a hiring spree lately...

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

I won't argue that they invest a lot of $$$ in training a new driver. My point was that they will have a whole bunch of trained drivers they won't call in. This whole hiring/laying off thing is puzzling? We have two different threads going at the same time. One about all the new people being trained and one about centers laying off 40+ drivers. What's up with that????

I haven't a clue.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

You know that's what cracked me up about too much OT during peak.

It was the seasonals going out with 5/6 planned days and working 10-11 hours. Lol

Ups math,I guess?

 

[Brownslave688]

I won't argue that they invest a lot of $$$ in training a new driver. My point was that they will have a whole bunch of trained drivers they won't call in. This whole hiring/laying off thing is puzzling? We have two different threads going at the same time. One about all the new people being trained and one about centers laying off 40+ drivers. What's up with that????

That's kind of the point here. Speculate why you think it is.

If there's one thing ups doesn't do is just spend money to spend money.

Not to mention like I said I know of drivers at multiple centers who have asked what's up and HR has given them all the same answer.

"Something big is happening this year. That's all I can say"

 

[rod]

I haven't a clue.

We need upstate to tell us whats going on-----he knows everything

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

We need upstate to tell us whats going on-----he knows everything

I'm sure he will chime in later.

 

[oldngray]

That's kind of the point here. Speculate why you think it is.

If there's one thing ups doesn't do is just spend money to spend money.

Not to mention like I said I know of drivers at multiple centers who have asked what's up and HR has given them all the same answer.

"Something big is happening this year. That's all I can say"

Same day delivery (maybe for Amazon)?

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Same day delivery (maybe for Amazon)?

I don't see that as being cost effective.

 

[Brownslave688]

We need upstate to tell us whats going on-----he knows everything

I have a feeling exactly what he will say.

Something big is coming this year. That's all I can tell you.

 

[oldngray]

I don't see that as being cost effective.

Cost effective? Like ORION is you mean?

 

[Brownslave688]

I don't see that as being cost effective.

Plus many of us that are hiring people don't have an Amazon warehouse close by. What's the point of hiring at center x if the closest Amazon warehouse is 8 hours away?

 

[rod]

Same day delivery (maybe for Amazon)?

Same Day for Amazon as far as I know involves Amazon using their own trucks to deliver your order from their warehouse to a locked box near you that you are given a code to open. As far as I know it isn't to your door--you have to drive to a mall or something like that where they have these lockers. I could be wrong---(usually am)

 

[oldngray]

Sooner. When he is waiting to pick up his UPS store he will be posting.

 

[livin the dream]

I'd say same day delivery would be crazy expensive when you look at how much next day is already. if people would be willing to pay even more for same day, it could be profitable. but that's just my guess. I know flying a plane isn't cheap

 

[oldngray]

UPS doesn't want the low profit residential ground packages. They want air and international or anything else that would be high revenue.

 

[Brownslave688]

UPS doesn't want the low profit residential ground packages. They want air and international or anything else that would be high revenue.

I know upstate has been all about a teired pay scale.

What about a lower pay scale for drivers that do nothing but deliver resi all day?

Ups home delivery or something like that.

 

[Wally]

Glorious Leader and UPS teaming up?

 

[oldngray]

I know upstate has been all about a teired pay scale.

What about a lower pay scale for drivers that do nothing but deliver resi all day?

I don't see how UPS could do that without it being in the contract. Part timers to deliver resi ground would be like the trash that other couriers sometimes use.