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

diesel96

Well-Known Member
Age you started UPS and years it tooked to get friend/t

You first ! Reveal your 411 before you ask to analyze others and maybe attach a comment as to why this peeks your curiosity my Brown Brother. Then I will gladly share part of my Bio. Sorry, but working for Brown and being a Teamster has taught me to blow caution into the wind. Skeptism has been instilled in me. Welcome to BC....Shred on
 

rainmaker099

rainmaker099
You first ! Reveal your 411 before you ask to analyze others and maybe attach a comment as to why this peeks your curiosity my Brown Brother. Then I will gladly share part of my Bio. Sorry, but working for Brown and being a Teamster has taught me to blow caution into the wind. Skeptism has been instilled in me. Welcome to BC....Shred on

I"M not a driver just getting started .Just want to get a idea of the time it took to get friend/t. 32age 9months
 
The info you will gain from this question won't help you a bit. The time it will take you to get to full time is determined in your center alone. All centers are different. The best way to shed any light on the subject is to ask around your center.
 

Jack4343

FT DR Specialist
Started at age 31. Midnight shift in the unload. Started driving Saturday air about 1 year in. Within 6 months I was covering PM air routes during the week in addition to my unload job. About 2 1/2 years in started cover driving. I've been at UPS for 6 1/2 years and I'm still a cover driver. The wait in our building to go full time is rather long. The last guys that went full time averaged around 9 years of employment. I have at least another 2 years to go full time which will make me almost 40 years old. I think I applied at the wrong hub. LOL!
 
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oldupsman

Guest
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.
 

Coldworld

60 months and counting
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.
 

Overpaid Union Thug

Well-Known Member
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 can't drive 55
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 friend/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.:clap:
 
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