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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 642237" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>There is a pretty huge difference between "year around helpers"---which would be a strike issue as far as I am concerned---and allowing helpers to ride bikes for 4 weeks during peak season.</p><p> </p><p>The bottom line is that, for the most part at least, the bikes are a bad idea and within a couple of years I predict that they will be gone from most areas.</p><p> </p><p>The math doesnt pencil out. UPS isnt saving any money with the bikes. They are probably already aware of that fact, but whoever came up with the idea in the first place is probably high enough up the corporate ladder that no one has the balls to tell him how stupid his idea really was.</p><p> </p><p>I'm going to have a bike helper in my area. He is going to spend <em>several hours </em>on his bike doing what would take the two of us about 45 minutes if he was on car with me. To accomplish this, UPS is going to have to spend at least $25 a day just to rent the U-Haul trailer that myself or another driver will tow out to the area with his stops. The bike and the trailer and all the accessories (helmet, light, flag, lock etc.) had to have cost at least $500. Whoever tows the trailer out there will make an extra $.25 per hour all day for pup pay. He will spend an extra 15 minutes a day (on OT) hooking and unhooking the trailer and breaking trace (extra miles) which will require <em>yet another </em>driver to help him make service on his NDA in the AM. I will <em>also</em> have to break trace in order to meet the helper, go through the load, and take any packages that are too big or heavy for him to haul around with the bike. And this is assuming that we <em>dont</em> get any snow. When it is all said and done, the amount of time and money that is actually <em>saved</em> by having a helper ride a bike...is virtually nothing. </p><p> </p><p>Whoever came up with the bike idea never thought it all the way through. He had a pretty picture in his mind of some guy riding a bike around for $9.50 an hour, but he forgot one simple fact...<em>the devil is in the details.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 642237, member: 14668"] There is a pretty huge difference between "year around helpers"---which would be a strike issue as far as I am concerned---and allowing helpers to ride bikes for 4 weeks during peak season. The bottom line is that, for the most part at least, the bikes are a bad idea and within a couple of years I predict that they will be gone from most areas. The math doesnt pencil out. UPS isnt saving any money with the bikes. They are probably already aware of that fact, but whoever came up with the idea in the first place is probably high enough up the corporate ladder that no one has the balls to tell him how stupid his idea really was. I'm going to have a bike helper in my area. He is going to spend [I]several hours [/I]on his bike doing what would take the two of us about 45 minutes if he was on car with me. To accomplish this, UPS is going to have to spend at least $25 a day just to rent the U-Haul trailer that myself or another driver will tow out to the area with his stops. The bike and the trailer and all the accessories (helmet, light, flag, lock etc.) had to have cost at least $500. Whoever tows the trailer out there will make an extra $.25 per hour all day for pup pay. He will spend an extra 15 minutes a day (on OT) hooking and unhooking the trailer and breaking trace (extra miles) which will require [I]yet another [/I]driver to help him make service on his NDA in the AM. I will [I]also[/I] have to break trace in order to meet the helper, go through the load, and take any packages that are too big or heavy for him to haul around with the bike. And this is assuming that we [I]dont[/I] get any snow. When it is all said and done, the amount of time and money that is actually [I]saved[/I] by having a helper ride a bike...is virtually nothing. Whoever came up with the bike idea never thought it all the way through. He had a pretty picture in his mind of some guy riding a bike around for $9.50 an hour, but he forgot one simple fact...[I]the devil is in the details.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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