Ask a Feeder Driver, Feeder Driver FAQ

[Hitman Con]

Can any feeder driver here, help with an answer. There’s a package delivery position where I stay, that’s full time. However, one of the ups feeder driver that comes and picks up where I work, said that the building that’s hiring is small, and doesn’t have feeder positions, so wait until the bigger facility posts a position, so I won’t get stuck in the future. Should I wait? Or is there a way to bid on feeder positions at other buildings once I have enough seniority etc.

 

[Jones]

Depends on where you are. Where I am feeder openings at the hub also get bid at the outlying centers, but it's not like that everywhere.

 

[Johney]

Here you are better off staying away from smaller buildings when it comes to feeders. They have far less runs and are rarely vacated. I know a guy who left our building years ago to follow his p/c route to a smaller building and has been a feeder cover there for quite a few years, yet had he stayed he would be a full-time feeder driver and very close to #1 in seniority.

 

[retiredTxfeeder]

I have a friend that I keep in touch with that has been a sleeper driver for many years. He told me this week that Louisville (who you make contact with on sleeper runs, at least down here) informed them that fueling and washing will no longer be paid for time. Is that everywhere?

 

[Jones]

Here you are better off staying away from smaller buildings when it comes to feeders. They have far less runs and are rarely vacated. I know a guy who left our building years ago to follow his p/c route to a smaller building and has been a feeder cover there for quite a few years, yet had he stayed he would be a full-time feeder driver and very close to #1 in seniority.

There are pluses and minuses to both, but in general I agree with you.

 

[Undercover Boss]

They have said that in California too.

I have a friend that I keep in touch with that has been a sleeper driver for many years. He told me this week that Louisville (who you make contact with on sleeper runs, at least down here) informed them that fueling and washing will no longer be paid for time. Is that everywhere?

 

[Rick Ross]

I have a friend that I keep in touch with that has been a sleeper driver for many years. He told me this week that Louisville (who you make contact with on sleeper runs, at least down here) informed them that fueling and washing will no longer be paid for time. Is that everywhere?

Most of the wash tunnels are closed so they solved that problem although we now have drivers popping hoods and standing on tires to clean windows. This takes longer and is unsafe.

The fueling would only come I to play on their longest leg where they are giving back 2 hours, unless they are subtracting time from their layover pay.

 

[Feeder665]

Can any feeder driver here, help with an answer. There’s a package delivery position where I stay, that’s full time. However, one of the ups feeder driver that comes and picks up where I work, said that the building that’s hiring is small, and doesn’t have feeder positions, so wait until the bigger facility posts a position, so I won’t get stuck in the future. Should I wait? Or is there a way to bid on feeder positions at other buildings once I have enough seniority etc.

In my area the two closest centers to the main hub can bid on feeder runs from the hub. My center is farther away and we have only 7 runs. Our feeder jobs are bid in house and only to our drivers. So it’s a mix of both I guess. Depends on your distance from your hub.

 

[Indecisi0n]

How come when I swing a trailer into a spot on one move without the need of a pull up no one is ever around to see me ?

BS!

 

[Covemastah]

How come when I swing a trailer into a spot on one move without the need of a pull up no one is ever around to see me ?

BS!

Bout time ,, what’s it been ,, two years !!

 

[Indecisi0n]

Bout time ,, what’s it been ,, two years !!

I blame it on bad mirror placement or it would have happened sooner

 

[brostalss]

How come when I swing a trailer into a spot on one move without the need of a pull up no one is ever around to see me ?

BS!

I know the feeling.

When shifters are watching it seems I wouldn't be able to hit the floor if I fell on it.

 

[trickpony1]

When shifters are watching it seems I wouldn't be able to hit the floor if I fell on it.

...and the shifters aren't driving a long wheel base road tractor that bucks, bounds, hesitates and wasn't really designed for precision yard work.

Go figure...

 

[Feeder665]

How come when I swing a trailer into a spot on one move without the need of a pull up no one is ever around to see me ?

BS!

I feel your pain. It happens to me in our small yard. No ones around, I’ll one shot it. People are backed up, it takes me three hours.

 

[Sweeper]

I feel your pain. It happens to me in our small yard. No ones around, I’ll one shot it. People are backed up, it takes me three hours.

And we all appreciate the time while you do 8 pull ups!!!

 

[brostalss]

...and the shifters aren't driving a long wheel base road tractor that bucks, bounds, hesitates and wasn't really designed for precision yard work.

Go figure...

I love it when I'm ready to back into a spot and a shifter zooms right behind be with no regard for yard speed limit.

 

[Indecisi0n]

I love it when I'm ready to back into a spot and a shifter zooms right behind be with no regard for yard speed limit.

Or the jackass drivers that see me setting up to back up (as I swing out) but they insist on still pulling all the way up to the spot right beside me .why do you have to get so close jackass? If I swing my can right I'm hitting you.

 

[trickpony1]

I love it when I'm ready to back into a spot and a shifter zooms right behind be with no regard for yard speed limit.

At my hub...if you're backing up you've got the right of way.

 

[Indecisi0n]

At my hub...if you're backing up you've got the right of way.

I agree . I beep and start moving .

 

[Feeder665]

And we all appreciate the time while you do 8 pull ups!!!

I do at least 10 pull ups before I let people by...