And here...we...go. Amazon launches UPS/FedEx style package cars

[Over70irregs]

Have them here in San Diego already.

From what I'm told they get paid the same as the Van drivers so they are having trouble getting people to do it because of no AC and heavier packages. Lol
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Pull out a check stub and show the Amazon guy/gal how their being ripped off.

 

[BigUnionGuy]

Wait until they back into the first dock.....they will be nice and flat..

They are kind of high on the truck, to contact a dock.

Don't they know.... the 5 rules of backing ? And they have a back-up camera.


You better start writing warning letters right now.

 

[Over70irregs]

Amazon’s got the money and the market share to accomplish just about anything it’s fully committed to. If they need to up employee compensation they will.

Good. Let’s all retire with pensions then jump ship......Nah!

 

[Over70irregs]

You all just keep making your little jokes and snide remarks about Amazon. Meanwhile keep your fingers crossed that UPS survives.

If we don’t survive it will be due to mismanagement. Plain and simple greed mixed with arrogance.

 

[PASinterference]

I have to agree with you. UPS seems to be its own worst enemy.

It started 20 yrs ago when management started worrying more about production numbers than quality service. That, and a silly grudge over a strike 23 years ago that 90% of today's management never experienced.

 

[Over70irregs]

Barring gov't intervention, Amazon WILL control the world and UPS is a goner, as are many, many other companies in a variety of industries. No joke, they already keep their data centers well under wraps in part because there are so many and they don't want anyone to get "concerned."

In any case, even though UPS provides well for us, that's only because of the Teamsters. If Amazon World is inevitable, the hope and goal should be to get their workers organized.

Show them a stub to get their attention.

 

[MECH-lift]

Hundreds of US Postal Service delivery trucks are catching fire as they continue to outstay their 24-year life expectancy

Two separate engineering firms hired to determine the cause of the fires were unable to really find a pattern.

www.yahoo.com

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Hundreds of US Postal Service delivery trucks are catching fire as they continue to outstay their 24-year life expectancy

Two separate engineering firms hired to determine the cause of the fires were unable to really find a pattern.

www.yahoo.com

It's says they are supposed to have a 24 year life expectancy and the last one was made in 1994...

Plus they have a 1000 pound weight capacity, I'm sure they hasn't been exceeded...

 

[MECH-lift]

It's says they are supposed to have a 24 year life expectancy and the last one was made in 1994...

Plus they have a 1000 pound weight capacity, I'm sure they hasn't been exceeded...

our fleet is getting old , it would be nice to have some new trucks.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

our fleet is getting old , it would be nice to have some new trucks.

I'm hanging on to my dinosaur as long as I can. I don't like the newer trucks.

 

[rod]

If we don’t survive it will be due to mismanagement. Plain and simple greed mixed with arrogance.

I've posted this before (so don't some of you get your panties in a wad) but WAY back when I first started in 1971 there was a 2 page story in a magazine called US Businesses News or Time or News Week or one of those types of rags called "What Makes Brown Run? It was basically a glowing report about how UPS was such a well oiled machine and what a great workforce they had. The whole article was nothing but GOOD news about UPS. The last paragraph said---The only way UPS could possibly fail was through BAD management----it looks like whoever wrote that article had a crystal ball.

 

[Wontmake9.5]

What I'd love is if they created pkg cars that you could attach the handtruck to the outside. Also, installed something that beeps when you're backing, and a sign attached to the back that says "this vehicle makes constant stops, please stay 50ft away", with hazard lights that flashed like a sos signal.

I was talking to a fellow driver the other day about the same thing lol especially the constant stop things

 

[Boywondr]

You all just keep making your little jokes and snide remarks about Amazon. Meanwhile keep your fingers crossed that UPS survives.

Yeah.DHL did.

 

[purehavanne]

Have them here in San Diego already.

From what I'm told they get paid the same as the Van drivers so they are having trouble getting people to do it because of no AC and heavier packages. Lol
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soon enough they’ll staff up with cheap labor. Yea your delivery guy won’t speak any English but he can do 150 stpps

 

[Boywondr]

Barring gov't intervention, Amazon WILL control the world and UPS is a goner, as are many, many other companies in a variety of industries. No joke, they already keep their data centers well under wraps in part because there are so many and they don't want anyone to get "concerned."

In any case, even though UPS provides well for us, that's only because of the Teamsters. If Amazon World is inevitable, the hope and goal should be to get their workers organized.

Amazon has hammered their drivers. Paying more for wages while millions of people are out of work is not going to happen and especially after the $600 unemployment bonus is terminated.

 

[Boywondr]

Wait until they back into the first dock.....they will be nice and flat..

Uh, the bumper will contact the dock wall way before the handrails flatten unless......


management is driving.

Rookie.

 

[Boywondr]

It started 20 yrs ago when management started worrying more about production numbers than quality service. That, and a silly grudge over a strike 23 years ago that 90% of today's management never experienced.

Most haven't experienced $38 per hour and free benefits either. But they and their dispatchers are infallible.

 

[Boywondr]

Did anyone read the article associated with the picture? It said that the driver will receive a total of four days training.
Get the ambulances ready..

 

[ManInBrown]

Amazon’s got the money and the market share to accomplish just about anything it’s fully committed to. If they need to up employee compensation they will.

jeff scum Bezos would hang himself before he would pay his workforce a living wage. I don’t know how true this is, but I’ve heard whenever there is the slightest talk of unionizing at a certain building, they close up shop and fire everybody and move to a new location.

 

[JJinVA]

Guarantee Bezos will use the hordes of illegals flooding the country to run his workforce before he ever pays a UPS wage to American drivers. It kills me every time I see an Amazon driver cause Im looking at them like theyre just helping to shoot holes in the ship theyre on, building up a megalomaniac like Bezos who will dump them at the first opportunity.