Ask a Feeder Driver, Feeder Driver FAQ
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Themanthatdid
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Someone give me the scoop, if you make seniority as a feeder driver, do we get 85% pay if we file a grievance ? This is the southern supplement I’m speaking of.
Just A UPS Guy
Bully.
@Yeet will prolly know, I have no clue what you're talking about.
Cowboy Mac
Well-Known Member
That depends on what your pay/job was before going to feeders. You only go through full time progression once. Let’s say you go to feeders in you second year of progression. You would get the second year feeder progression rate, and you would still have about 2 more years before top rate.
DriveInDriveOut
Inordinately Right
We have people coming straight from PT, I'm pretty sure they start at 85% of top rate.
Swanson
Henry Swanson's my name, and excitement's my game.
sign me up
Themanthatdid
Well-Known Member
I gotta find out a bit more about this 85%, I was a off the street hire who came in at 21$ but had seniority on day one on my first working day. Someone told me that it’s in the contract where you get 85% of top pay when you make seniority.
Yeet
Not gonna let ‘em catch the Midnight Rider
File a grievance on what? If you made seniority as a cover driver, you get 85% of top rate. Even if you win a bid run later, you are red circled at 85% until progression passes that rate which will be year 4. If you didn’t get hired on as cover, you will start at year 1 pay and get your increases every year on your seniority date unless you already went through your full time progression somewhere else like package. In that case, you go straight to top rate in feeders.
Yeet
Not gonna let ‘em catch the Midnight Rider
Same here but that’s because we are bringing them up as PT cover drivers first and they have to win a bid to be considered FT feeder.
Themanthatdid
Well-Known Member
Thank you for clarification, I know it was to good to be true. I was a off the street hire for feeders who got seniority my first working day. 6 months before that I did package but at a different station.
Yeet
Not gonna let ‘em catch the Midnight Rider
Someone lied to you. If you got brought on day 1 as FT feeder you do not get 85%.
burrheadd
KING Of GIFS
It’s not a station
olroadbeech
Happy Verified UPSer
In Reno/Sparks you would have gotten 100% from first day in feeder.
so read your contract book.
so read your contract book.
Cowboy Mac
Well-Known Member
At least you have your full time seniority. Those 4 years will pass by quickly. Each year faster than the one before it.
quad decade guy
Well-Known Member
Well.....
Our two "Top Stewards" were the biggest company men ever. Both could not be less helpful, self-centered and selfish. *. Would sell you out in a heartbeat.
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govols019
You smell that?
Consistently miserable.
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PreTrippin’
Getting drunk and falling down
Hey I have a question. One time I saw a wal mart driver with a 53’ trying to get through an apartment complex parking lot and was completely stuck on a turn because of the car ports. He was doing an Austin Powers trying to get out but there was no way that dude was going anywhere without serious damage. I don’t even know how he got that thing where it was.
So my question is have any of you guys gotten stuck and if so what do you do?
So my question is have any of you guys gotten stuck and if so what do you do?
retiredTxfeeder
cap'n crunch
I went around one of our buildings one night with a set. You were supposed to be able to drive completely around, but there was a bunch of equipment parked on the back side. I was the only one there. I had to break a set and rebuild it in limited room. Took me well over an hour. After that, when in doubt, get out and look was my motto.
Yeet
Not gonna let ‘em catch the Midnight Rider
Good advice. If it’s my first time at a small center I will park the truck at the entrance and walk it. I ain’t building the same set twice.
