Well, yeah it would be nice, but, this is UPS.....that's like UPS giving me a brand new package car with 2 empty shelves each day.
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Well, yeah it would be nice, but, this is UPS.....that's like UPS giving me a brand new package car with 2 empty shelves each day.
Brown Now
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You have two long boxes that need to be moved from a center to a hub with a distance of two hundred miles. One is 100% ,the other is empty. You have a feeder and a broker sitting there waiting to roll. Who would you send with what?
From a logical stand point (I don't condone this) I would send the broker with the load and the brown with the empty.
You're going to burn more fuel pulling a load as well as be exposed to more liability (cost of cargo) then pulling an empty. Should there be loss of cargo due to an accident, fire, theft etc., the brokers insurance pays, if it's a brown, UPS eats it.
I don't want to see this but it is shrewd if not at least logical. Again, I don't want to see this, but you can see the reasoning behind it if that is indeed the case.
From a logical stand point (I don't condone this) I would send the broker with the load and the brown with the empty.
You're going to burn more fuel pulling a load as well as be exposed to more liability (cost of cargo) then pulling an empty. Should there be loss of cargo due to an accident, fire, theft etc., the brokers insurance pays, if it's a brown, UPS eats it.
I don't want to see this but it is shrewd if not at least logical. Again, I don't want to see this, but you can see the reasoning behind it if that is indeed the case.
104Feeder
Phoenix Feeder
Hey you're only harming yourself, and if you have some problem with me that's no sweat off my back. Here we file every time they use subcontractors and we win more Feeder jobs. The company has an obligation to adequately train and staff for Peak under the Contract and every time they fail to properly plan. You're cutting your own throat allowing it to go on without filing. So you don't have sleepers, you are missing out on runs you could bid on for peak and keeping one of your brothers or sisters slaving away in package when they could be doing a sweet Feeder run instead. If that makes you sleep well at night then good for you.
104Feeder
Phoenix Feeder
They have our backups shifting in the yard while Swift takes trailers to/from an outside lot and the rail yard. With the 177 Arbitration this should produce a hefty monetary penalty plus mass training for next year. Hopefully your area is taking the same approach.
104Feeder
Phoenix Feeder
These are 2012 numbers but they are pretty dismal for non-UPS drivers. Median, for the statistically challenged, means that it is the value separating the higher and lower half of a sample, a value exactly in the middle. Not the same thing as the average, though it can be the same value.
http://www.bls.gov/ooh/transportati...g/heavy-and-tractor-trailer-truck-drivers.htm
Bottom rung
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We're professionals. Let brown pull the load, give that empty to that scab. We'll get the load delivered on time. We don't know the last time the scab slept or had a restart that wasn't fudged with his two log books. If the scab drives in the ditch with that empty is barely a blip on the radar. Have him drive into the ditch with a hot load and that's a mess nobody from a center manager to a sales rep wants to deal with. We got where we are with our service. Let's keep it that way.
Not really...but I get your point.
Pride, I like it!
Johney
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Contractors are running loads out of of our hubs(there are only three in our state). I don't work out of a hub. Sleeper runs are from the hubs,again we don't have them.Never have.To be honest the last two peaks they have added more runs then have ever been out of our building so I'm really not sure what we could file for as you say. So you're saying it's better to get a load from a gypsy (and do more work when I get back) as opposed to letting them take the first long box(that hasn't even been started to be loaded)while I WAIT for the second one and work just as many hours? Sorry pal I'd much rather sit at the hub and maybe do a shift or two(if that)and take a nap or screw around on my phone. Much better. The only problem I have with you is you seem, to think you know it all and you may where you're at, just not here. Seems our local is MUCH better than yours as we get our hours. And I sleep just fine, although not at night. Enjoy your holiday hope you make a ton of extra cash filing.
Mugarolla
Light 'em up!
That is more than the average independent trucker gets paid.
That $1/mi is about $150,000/yr.
After expenses, this yields around $50,000-$75,000/yr.
This is more than the average trucker makes.
MaceFremonti
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Quite the clusterfu*k at the New Stanton interchange today...
MaceFremonti
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MaceFremonti
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So sleeper team drops my.load st NEWPA....supposedly in the 400 section...nada....find it 30 minutes later on the ramp to the 800 section.....rear.glad hand broken off.....and ZERO brakes.....sigh....just another day at UP $
High winds in South Dakota...they look so peaceful sleeping like that....
Ya can't park on the left shoulder like that when the wind is coming from that direction. If your gunna park it, park it on the side of the road that leans into the wind, the right shoulder in this case
trickpony1
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I'm confused.....
Who said they were parked?
Left shoulder? The roads I travel have very little, if any, "left shoulder". Parking on your "left shoulder" would entail partially blocking the fast lane which, I think, is illegal.
Who said they were parked?
Left shoulder? The roads I travel have very little, if any, "left shoulder". Parking on your "left shoulder" would entail partially blocking the fast lane which, I think, is illegal.
