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<blockquote data-quote="Dollar Chasing" data-source="post: 3781306" data-attributes="member: 73474">Eeeehhh...I see it as UPS realizing that they can hire all of these temps at $25/hr with no benefits in addition to all of the brand new drivers they have been hiring for a while now at $18.75/hr (soon to be about $21) and buy new trucks for them to drive while taking away $54/hr OT away from senior drivers, all the while making sure to be paying ZERO penalty pay for over 9.5s. They’ll come out on top overall I guarantee it.Add to that their ability to turn all of these trained temps into 22.4s with a ton of area knowledge already gained. It’s expensive and time consuming to hire and train new people. Add to that their ability to take all of the new trucks and claim them on their taxes with the new tax law writeoffs for corporate expenditures, and they’re probably going to come out of this on the plus side. Plus I heard these new trucks they are building are gas, not diesel. Better gas tech has allowed them to make engines that get better power with better gas mileage while using cheaper fuel. Add to that all of the electric vehicles they’re putting out, and costs just keep going down for operations. Less service failures with people not being overloaded means less refunds and less people leaving us because we are sucking. UPS is going to be just fine.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dollar Chasing, post: 3781306, member: 73474"] Eeeehhh...I see it as UPS realizing that they can hire all of these temps at $25/hr with no benefits in addition to all of the brand new drivers they have been hiring for a while now at $18.75/hr (soon to be about $21) and buy new trucks for them to drive while taking away $54/hr OT away from senior drivers, all the while making sure to be paying ZERO penalty pay for over 9.5s. They’ll come out on top overall I guarantee it. Add to that their ability to turn all of these trained temps into 22.4s with a ton of area knowledge already gained. It’s expensive and time consuming to hire and train new people. Add to that their ability to take all of the new trucks and claim them on their taxes with the new tax law writeoffs for corporate expenditures, and they’re probably going to come out of this on the plus side. Plus I heard these new trucks they are building are gas, not diesel. Better gas tech has allowed them to make engines that get better power with better gas mileage while using cheaper fuel. Add to that all of the electric vehicles they’re putting out, and costs just keep going down for operations. Less service failures with people not being overloaded means less refunds and less people leaving us because we are sucking. UPS is going to be just fine. [/QUOTE]

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