Back First, idiots!

[No1 Special]

We were never paid enough to drive those high steppers, especially the ones without power steering.

 

[scratch]

Golf course tunnels aren't good shortcuts.

 

[cosis]

Disagree. We are paid very well to do what we do, therefore the large majority take pride In their job and do it the right way. Where FedEx is paid like garbage and they act like it. If UPS paid ten bucks an hour with no bennies you’d see a whole lot of brown trucks doing the same stupid sheet.

this is why I saw a UPS truck in two different driveways in a matter of 2 minutes Friday

 

[Fido]

Did you not have to go to Integrad? I know some drivers didnt but I did

I dodged a bullet and didn’t have to.
Didn’t even drive
Sat in a classroom and looked at a computer
Never put a diad in my hand
Went downtown with all the boys and got drunk every night
Uber’d there and back of course
And still came back and qualified

 

[govols019]

We have one left and the guy who drives it daily has driven it since it's first day. They even repainted it for him and everything. As cool as they look, god they're awful. Nobody ever used first gear and just started up into second, the high step killed your knees, and the fact that my legs touch the steering wheel because of how small the driver area is warrants enough reason to never use them ever again.

Don't forget that they only had a lap seat belt.

 

[quad decade guy]

Some do for sure. I would have given him a heads up.

But it really just boils down to the training. UPS drivers go through driver bootcamp while other drivers are given a set of car keys and told to do their best

Driver bootcamp? Huh? Where is this "camp"? I was given a set of keys and told to go make a pickup....first day. So, if we have all of this "training", why do we have so many accidents? Our vehicles are all beat to hell, tatted, dreaded etc. Sloppy uniforms. If we are so highly "trained"....it ain't workin.

 

[quad decade guy]

Disagree. We are paid very well to do what we do, therefore the large majority take pride In their job and do it the right way. Where FedEx is paid like garbage and they act like it. If UPS paid ten bucks an hour with no bennies you’d see a whole lot of brown trucks doing the same stupid sheet.

Ever seen our fleet? I get passed every morning by the same speeding pkg car in a WORK ZONE. Get passed by the same feeders in the same work zones every night. They tailgate, speed blah blah. How about on the yard? Wanna go there?

 

[quad decade guy]

You mean there are drivers at UPS now that have never seen an old 800?

You'd really love that first step and wonderful power steering.

Wooden shelves and bulkhead door. A heater that makes plenty of noise....just no heat.

 

[Wilson1397]

Wooden shelves and bulkhead door. A heater that makes plenty of noise....just no heat.

Loved those heaters.........lol. It would defrost just enough of a spot on the windshield to look through. Used to have to use the ice scraper on the inside!!!

 

[MyTripisCut]

Ever seen our fleet? I get passed every morning by the same speeding pkg car in a WORK ZONE. Get passed by the same feeders in the same work zones every night. They tailgate, speed blah blah. How about on the yard? Wanna go there?

Yard here is a nut zone

 

[Maple Grove MN Driver]

As funny as that is....

Why do UPS people have such an "elitist attitude" towards other drivers ?

We are the best of the least best.

 

[ManInBrown]

this is why I saw a UPS truck in two different driveways in a matter of 2 minutes Friday

Do you know what it means when someone says, A LARGE MAJORITY? It means most, not all.

 

[Fido]

So he should of backed into the tree first before entering the driveway

 

[Zowert]

As funny as that is....

Why do UPS people have such an "elitist attitude" towards other drivers ?

Because we are paid more. $100k plus a year inflates the ego.

 

[Zowert]

That’s something I’d expect from an Amazon driver. I saw something similar one time with an Amazon contract driver in a white van. She back out of a drive way and knocked over a set of mailboxes. Got out looked at her van then got back in and drove away like nothing happened. I helped one of the homeowners fix it, two of the mail boxes were smashed up pretty good tho.

 

[Zowert]

UPS drivers never back into trees.

Maybe that dinosaur will finally be taken out of service. They’re dangerously slow on the freeway, struggling to get to a max speed of 55mph while everyone is flying past you at 70+ is not fun.

 

[myback]

As funny as that is....

Why do UPS people have such an "elitist attitude" towards other drivers ?

Because we are surrounded by inbred idiots, that’s why.

 

[Airbear]

But it really just boils down to the training. UPS drivers go through driver bootcamp while other drivers are given a set of car keys and told to do their best

Haha, do we indeed. My "training" was being sat in front of a computer for a week, and about 20 mins in a PC. Most of my 'class' killed the cones, couldn't back onto the dock, couldn't parallel park, killed the sup pretending to be a kid around the PC. Some couldn't get the 5 and 10s down.

End of the week, everyone "passed", even the 'ol 300lb lady who took 30 seconds just to exit the PC. Yeah. "Training". If UPS has the staff, the time, and doesn't desperately need warm bodies in vehicles NOW, then sure, maybe some drivers get "training".