Off the street hiring and inside hiring is 2 different things. They will not train off the street hires for their CDL... You need experience. If hired from inside, you're trained to get your class A and then feeder school. I am not guessing, I am not speculating, it is facts. We literally use the same 5 and 10s feeders use. We use all the same driving habits feeders use. If you can't follow package methods how are you going to follow feeders? Our pretrip is peanuts compared to feeders pretrip.. Stay part time and load those trucks and get that 13 a hour baby!
CDL before feeder school
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Quickdraw
Well-Known Member
Feeders isn't hard but isn't for everybody either the hours suck if you want family time unless you have 25+ years I can't speak for everywhere but our sups arnt to bad if they know you aren't going to take their smile*. we have decent stewards but they will try to figure out who will bend over and who won't. So keep a stiff back and it's alright
allahuakbar
She/Her
Package car is literally the easiest job I’ve ever had.
Cyclops
Well-Known Member
I definitely didn’t want to work for that j@k @$$ for the next several years.
MyTripisCut
Never bought my own handtruck
You don’t work for the Sup. You work for yourself. Now you work for less, good job.
burrheadd
KING Of GIFS
You showed him
Cyclops
Well-Known Member
Feeders is the only job at ups that is remotely comparable to working for yourself. All others including package car are slave jobs.
why dont people want to get into feeders
scooby0048
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And this is why UPS should allow transfers or open bidding across country. We have 2 feeder spots and 35 drivers wanting to go into them. Most of us will never see feeders in our careers unless we whack someone or blow someone.
Scared.
MyTripisCut
Never bought my own handtruck
Some are scared. For me, I’m not into working nights, and not getting the vacation schedule I want.
MyTripisCut
Never bought my own handtruck
Well pal, lucky for you, you know how to do both!
Fear of of the unknown is what I should have said. Most guys I talk to say they don't want to work nights, don't want to work the long hours, don't want to drive a big truck in the snow... I said all the same things for years whenever my buddies in feeders would try and talk me onto signing the bid list. Finally I got so sick of delivery that I signed it anyway and it didn't take me long to realize that all the things I thought were going to be a problem weren't a problem at all. You're right about the vacation though.
TheMachine
Are you sure you want to punch out?
Currently a 7 year waiting list for Feeders at my place. All the very best jumping ahead of the line pal.
Nimnim
The Nim
I would imagine there's 10 times the reasons someone would get DQ'd from driving the PC than there are for being DQ'd from Feeders. Feeders, you make sure your 
is right in the pretrip and follow the 10/5 while driving and probably being safer than that, in PC you glance the pretrip because you're taking too long to go deliver your AM and then you're behind the whole day by their metrics.
is right in the pretrip and follow the 10/5 while driving and probably being safer than that, in PC you glance the pretrip because you're taking too long to go deliver your AM and then you're behind the whole day by their metrics.
burrheadd
KING Of GIFS
So, how come you flunked out of pkg.
Was it because the supe was a jerk and was mean to you?
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