Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
I don't know why they even bother. They change the routes so much every day now it's impossible to home anyone to any standard.
Center Bid Sheets are up
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Johney
Well-Known Member
They actually train people where you're at?
upschuck
Well-Known Member
Not usually, unless it is a higher seniority driver.
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
I really doubt they train many of them.
PhatPattheRiverRat
Well-Known Member
Where's the bid sheet for CEO?
PhatPattheRiverRat
Well-Known Member
I ask bc the HR person who interviewed me said "if you go management instead of on the Union side, the sky is the limit...you could be CEO." I scoffed and chuckled. My sup gave me this look like he wanted to die, or had just a died a bit inside. I love this place.
govols019
You smell that?
It was always fun having high seniority when bids went up.
All the younger guys were looking over their shoulders at you and asking questions.
Start a few different rumors and see what happens.
I've never understood the joy some folks get out of that...we just rebid and I bumped a guy off his route..I also told him six months ago I was gonna do it so it wasn't a surprise.
Just because older drivers loved to play games at bid time when I was lower seniority doesn't mean I have to do the same now.
It's kinda nice actually, in the summer you can take a long interstate run that gets you out in the country and then in the winter when the weather's bad you can choose to work local.
Indecisi0n
Well-Known Member
Sounds great if you have the seniority to do so.
hellfire
no one considers UPS people."real" Teamsters.-BUG
Do you ride a unicorn to work and fart sunshine?
barnyard
KTM rider
I thought I was going to retire as a cover driver. A route opened up in an area that I do not hate, it is not my favorite, but not horrible. I bid it and won. This year at peak, I ran the same area I have run for the past 5-6 years, except I had a different package car every day. Several times, I had to fuel before I left the lot or on my way to the delivery area. 1 day, I cleaned out a week's worth of lunch scraps. I got sick of working in pig stys.
I signed the bid and now I regret it. It is boring as hell. I do not deliver to any farms, very few dogs and I have to do some pick ups.
According to our local, once you bid a route, you have to do it for a year and then can either sign a bid to go cover or wait and sign a bid for an open route. The routes that I would love to do are never going to be available for me to bid, but I could go back to doing them 6-7 weeks a year.
728ups
All Trash No Trailer
Did you take that sweet route in the East center? The man who recently retired?
I was just kidding, and all but the newest knew I was. I already had the sweetest route in the building. No way I was going to leave it.
sailfish
Master of Karate and Friendship for Everyone
Hopefully his automation wet dreams bite him in the ass and he is replaced by a mainframe supercomputer. Just think how much extra money they'll have for you to bargain with come negotiation times.
WorknLateHuh
Well-Known Member
Its got to be really hard after so many years of moving around where u want, and then suddenly being locked in.
Maybe you’ll change your mind as time passes, but I will say this though... you’re right, dealing with ppl’s trash and wading through it is ridiculous. i hate it. i dont pick it up anymore i just kick it into a corner. Maybe i should leave it all piled up on the driver’s seat for Monday when they get back from vacation.
Nope, I won that bid but I turned it down. Late Letter Box Pickups and a couple of slacker drivers working next to it. I'm tired of getting work off the driver next to me now. That is a big money route but I don't want to get home too late. Your son loves it as a cover driver, but I'm going to get the easiest route in the building. I noticed that the East Center's Bid List was finally posted tonight. I look at the Bid Board every week, this will be the fifth route of my career.
barnyard
KTM rider
If I could have an assigned PC that followed me from route to route, I would have stayed cover till I retired. I covered for 15 years and knew enough routes that I did some cut cars with areas I had never done just for some challenge.
The good part is that everyone in the loop are people that I enjoy working with. We all work to make sure that no one gets screwed.
35years
Gravy route
I looked at all the routes in the bldg, and who moved the least pkgs.
I took the one with the least pkgs. years ago.
You will love it.
I always looked for low stops, low pieces and rural. The more rural the better.
The one I am now used to be the easiest when I took it 21-22 years ago. 125 stops and a hundred miles in a P-500 would work up to eight hours exactly. I am about 95% subdivisions with no pickups, but the area has grown with new houses and I get dispatched with 160 stops a day now. I love the area but Peak has got out of hand, I get loaded up with a Helper for ten weeks now and deal with a golf cart route. My new bid gets about 130 stops and 115 miles a day. Mostly subdivisions and some country stuff. It only hit 167 stops the worst day of Peak. I will retire on this one.
