Age you started and years it took to get f/t

[ja4079]

26 yrs old

started as a full time driver from the very first day never loaded
been here 28 yrs

[Docparcel79]

19 worked on the Twilight.
23 I went to package.

[BrownPR215]

29 years old (airwalker then air driver)
2 years

[outta hours]

21 years old full time driver off the street 1986

[IDoLessWorkThanMost]

29 years old

Hired 23 y/o January 2002
Fulltime 27 y/o Aug 2006

Hired at 23. Driver from day 1. All in package car. Retired last year with 32 years at age 55. Hey Left In Building, what are you waiting for? I'm so happy I can't stand it.

[dragracer66]

23 years old......fulltime only never was partime!!!

[filthpig]

I was 21 when I fell for it. I could have gone FT after 6 years, but passed it up and waited another year or so.

[MD Dan]

Age 29 - hired as Christmas Temp Driver for Peak'87. Got Hired back March '88--20 short years ago.

[coldworld]

It seems as if hardly anyone had the 7-12 year wait that you hear about from time to time. The wait has come down in most areas. but I waited 7 years, I wouldnt have minded waiting 3 or 4 but when they were hiring off the street and I was busting my hump in the hub, well, its a very sour subject for me...as Im sure it is for some of you. There will be lots of new drivers in the next 2-5 years when the folks that were hired in the late 70's and early 80's leave.

[big_arrow_up]

I started part-time at age 21. I'm 30 now and way past my center's average wait time for full-time driving. I would have been full-time already if UPS didn't hire "off the street." I will never understand why UPS thinks they need to do this. I'm sure I'll be full-time pretty soon. Hopefully sooner than later.

[moodaddy247]

I started in summer of 2006 as a seasonal in feeders; Labor Day came in September, me and 13 or so guys got the nod to come on f/t.
From all of the stories that I read and or hear about, I am quite thankful that I never had the opportunity to run on a PC.

Course, I used to work at Coca-Cola as a sideload driver... and every once in a while I'll hear about how hard PC was to be in.... I smerk, giggle a bit and think...yeah, y'all had it hard in that lil' brown oven...

Perhaps those HOT summer days would've been easier to handle if those PC drivers had to be a stop for an hour or so, and fill the cooler doors, the fast lanes, rotate the product, and stand around and wait to get checked in and.... oh, there I go rambling on again....

Yeah, I am thankful that those days are over for me.

[feeder53]

56, and still awaiting a slot.

[mainebrown]

age 23/15 months to ft

[moreluck]

WOW....well, I guess you're in Maine and felt the need to shout all the way out here to the West Coast.

[belyl4]

19. Did my road test for delivery on my 21st b-day.

[Griff]

18 inside at night.
21 went f/t driving.

[scratch]

I was 17 when I was hired as a Loader on the Midnight Sort in 1975. I bid on a route and started driving Package Car in 1984.

[Zigzag99]

25 years old in the unload

Ft it took me 6 long years

[Baba gounj]

age 22

full time 23 yrs ( I wasn't in a real hurry )

[paganpink]

21 when hired, p/t supervisor at 25 (still attending college), driver at 28. I could have reached f/t driving sooner if I hadn't been a p/t supervisor, or dropped out of school, but I don't regret it. UPS later paid for me to return to school and receive an MBA degree using tuition reimbursement.

[ezmoney5150]

I started at 18 on the preload. I was classified full time 7 years later. I was working full time without classification after 3 years. Preload, Air Exceptions, Sat. Air, Double shifting twilight, night.

[LeddySS98]

preload at 27 started driving 11months later

[upsdude]

29, hired ft off the street.

[covemaster]

24 yrs old hired to unload, showed up asked if i could drive a stick ?? put on pkg car that same day 19 yrs of bliss feeder