Overnight/UPS Freight Salaries?

10-27-2006, 03:52 PM

Obviously, the hourly rates/ salaries are much different between the UPS Union tractor drivers and the UPS Freight drivers( Overnight). What are these pay differences, and will this possibly change for the better?

bamaboy · 10-30-2006, 08:12 AM

When we (UPS Freight) starting making as much profit and revenue that UPS small package makes, I would bet our salary improves. The problem is that we are a long way from making that profit/revenue compared to small package. It is no different than when we were O, you got to have the freight to make $$ and you have to give good service to keep the freight once you have it.

Braveheart · 11-08-2006, 08:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bamaboy

When we (UPS Freight) starting making as much profit and revenue that UPS small package makes, I would bet our salary improves. The problem is that we are a long way from making that profit/revenue compared to small package. It is no different than when we were O, you got to have the freight to make $$ and you have to give good service to keep the freight once you have it.

True, I had a customer ask me who runs the docks down at UPS freight. I told him I did not know and he said the manager he talked to was an A-hole. He said they lost a pallet with $8,000 worth of goods and that was 2 weeks ago. I hear that in typical fashion, UPS buys something and then has no idea what to do with it.

11-09-2006, 11:02 AM

I was just wondering if either one of you knew how much the delivery truck drivers made annually?

bamaboy · 11-10-2006, 04:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Anonymous brian

I was just wondering if either one of you knew how much the delivery truck drivers made annually?

I'm UPSF, I asked a UPS Feeder Driver and he told me as much as they wanted. He said most weeks they work at least 45 to 50 hours per week and some even work longer. He says that sometimes he works on his off day (4/10) and that day is all time and half. No differnent than any other job. If you work hard and long, you usually make more money. So take $25.00 per hour and start the multiplication.

stormchaser148 · 11-10-2006, 06:48 PM

I work for ups freight and do also have friends that work for ups. The difference in pay has to do with the difference in the job. We as upgf have a lower scale because are income ratio to theres in trailer revenue is 100% difference. Also, there is the matter of union and non-union. There non-union part of ups doesn't make much on there docks as sorters. Also, factor in that are side is lazy, can't service the customers, and couldn't dispatch out of centrol correctly on a good day. If ups management would just get off there butts and start firing managers and teach us the about rules and standards. We may actually see our wallets getting fatter. Just tell them to put a leash on there managers in regards to the way they treat you!

STLFeeder · 11-11-2006, 03:51 AM

My Father-in-law works for ABF and it seems that union freight drivers are making around 24 or so an hour. I do his taxes and he brings in roughly 70 grand a year..

DorkHead · 11-14-2006, 08:21 PM

UPS feeder drivers make about $27.60 per hour not counting contract supplements. Our feeder drivers work 57 to 59 hours a week. Yearly, its about $90,000.00 to $100,000.00 a year.

mpeedy · 11-16-2006, 02:46 AM

Ups pay rates vary by a few dollars depending on the union local.

onewing · 11-18-2006, 02:56 PM

i can tell you from experience that fedex drivers make a lot more money

boatman · 11-18-2006, 06:27 PM

fedex freight drivers make less than ups frieght per hour also fedex friend on road drivers being hurt by wakins buy

01-18-2007, 04:54 AM

How can i be hired as a UPS freight driver? What's involve with the training and what kind of starting pay i can expect?

UPSFreightMan · 01-23-2007, 09:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by STLFeeder

My Father-in-law works for ABF and it seems that union freight drivers are making around 24 or so an hour. I do his taxes and he brings in roughly 70 grand a year..

FreightTeamsters such as ABF make $21.76 hr

02-18-2007, 12:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by UPSFreightMan

FreightTeamsters such as ABF make $21.76 hr

i work for ups freight and make 21.00 an hour and non union go figure

04-24-2007, 09:14 PM

My brother is a Fedex Freight P and D driver and is currently making $23.55 an hour, plus they receive a production bonus every month that runs around $250.00.

sppollock · 05-05-2007, 03:33 PM

I know out of our UPGF terminal, we start at 18.01 and top out at 21.50/hour. It depends on where you live for the wages. I know that we are paying the same as Fedex freight with better benefits in this area.

krash · 05-16-2007, 09:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by UPSFreightMan

FreightTeamsters such as ABF make $21.76 hr

Where'd you come up with that figure:confused1
There making 24

sppollock · 05-16-2007, 06:05 PM

Im sure that some areas there pay is better.

nvnative · 05-20-2007, 07:03 PM

I've talked to Boise, Salt Lake, Sacramento, Newark, Fresno, San Jose, Rialto, L.A., And Las Vegas drivers, everybody I talk to is making the same wages exept us at REN Reno, NV. and thats because we were union before ups took over and still considered union now, I just started 1 month ago so i don't know all the details but I do know I'm making less than everybody I talk to.

Buckethead · 05-22-2007, 04:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nvnative

I've talked to Boise, Salt Lake, Sacramento, Newark, Fresno, San Jose, Rialto, L.A., And Las Vegas drivers, everybody I talk to is making the same wages exept us at REN Reno, NV. and thats because we were union before ups took over and still considered union now, I just started 1 month ago so i don't know all the details but I do know I'm making less than everybody I talk to.

Salt Lake and Reno were always paid less than the rest of the system, due to being Union. Then the Teamsters dropped representation for the SAL employees, they did not have enough paying dues. MC in Newark used to get paid a little more for the area they are in. I don't know if they have it the same way since the integration.
When the Indy contract comes out I'm sure Reno will be the first to benefit, being they are all ready represented. I've worked for Motor Cargo/UPSF for over 6 years and it took me quite a while to make up what I lost at the start of the integration. Actually I had to work in a Team operation to make up the difference, If I didn't, I would not have made enough to make it. In a way you guy's make more because you never lost your delay (line drivers, of coarse).

Stick with the Reno terminal, you guys will be making more than the rest of us soon, well, at least for a while.

07-26-2007, 06:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by onewing

i can tell you from experience that fedex drivers make a lot more money

you are so wrong my my man. what is your fact? I made 67,000 my first year driving for ups 7 years before that all wharhouse. you are WRONG! I KNOW FEDEX DRIVERS.

Teddy Bear · 09-17-2007, 05:25 PM

I am wondering why no one mentions much about the differences in overtime. UPS receives overtime after 8 hrs.....UPS freight after, is it 41 or 42 hours now. It used to be 44 or 45 hours! That adds up to a huge difference at the end of the year $$ wise. And those are WORKING hours. Holidays, Vacation Days, etc. do not count toward your 40 some odd hours. If UPS and UPS Freight are the same company.....why do they not have the same rules and regulations? I'd like to see someone address this issue since it pertains directly to the difference in salaries.

raceanoncr · 09-18-2007, 10:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Teddy Bear

I am wondering why no one mentions much about the differences in overtime. UPS receives overtime after 8 hrs.....UPS freight after, is it 41 or 42 hours now. It used to be 44 or 45 hours! That adds up to a huge difference at the end of the year $$ wise. And those are WORKING hours. Holidays, Vacation Days, etc. do not count toward your 40 some odd hours. If UPS and UPS Freight are the same company.....why do they not have the same rules and regulations? I'd like to see someone address this issue since it pertains directly to the difference in salaries.

Actually, it's quite a simple equation. UPS parcel is union and most of UPSF is not.

The O/T issue was negotiated into the labor contract many yrs ago for UPS parcel. Overnite, now UPSF, has, for the most part, never had ANY contract. While now being owned by UPS, that doesn't mean that UPSF will get everything, down to the last paper clip, that UPS gets.

I'm not going to bang the union drum here on this post but this is what it essentially boils down to: Vote for union representation and possibly negotiate the same rules as have been in effect at UPS for many yrs. Until then, you're stuck with whatever your division of the company wants to hand you.

Teddy Bear · 09-20-2007, 05:26 PM

Correct.....I was just wondering why no one had brought this up....I know about the over time issues you mentioned....The O/T issue was negotiated into the labor contract many yrs ago for UPS parcel. Overnite, now UPSF, has, for the most part, never had ANY contract. While now being owned by UPS, that doesn't mean that UPSF will get everything, down to the last paper clip, that UPS gets.
I am not praising the union or knocking it....just bringing up a point that if UPSF got paid for overtime after 8 instead of after 40 whatever it is now there would be a huge difference on your W2 at the end of the year! I can't understand why those who posted above did not even bring this into consideration when they were bantering about the wages....

09-23-2007, 10:30 AM

I have worked for Overnite/UPGF for 27 almost 28yrs now. They never paid me overtime for at least 18 of those years. By 2009 we will be getting time and a half after 40hrs. Mighty nice of them to bring us into the 20th century, to bad it is the 21st century. It is not like they ask if you want to work over either. When you work a holiday week. laber day for example. you can put 40 to 42 hrs in 4 days and not get any OT. That is my biggest complaint with ths company. We will never see anything above this because most of the people want to work 50 or better and shudder if they can't. Also they need to close the gap between road pay and PU&D pay. Ot after 8 would give us PU&D drivers a better shot at higher retirement pay. WE can only dream. Also the pay is the same for the entir country except for the Few and I mean Few terminerals that are represented by a third party. They are not exactly better off now but who knows if they will be..