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<blockquote data-quote="browniehound" data-source="post: 732825" data-attributes="member: 4653"><p>Scratch, I truly feel sorry for you. I think its totally ridiculous that you lost all your safe drving time over a cracked mirror. In my center, a cracked mirror can just be written up on the DVIR and no accident charged. However, if you damaged the $10 (instead of your $3, lol) piece of metal that houses the mirror, then we are charged with an accident.</p><p> </p><p>It still doesn't make sense to me. Why does UPS do this to themselves? I really don't get. For example, take small business owners that would hypothetically own 3 or 4 trucks. If one of his employees broke a mirror do you think he is going to call his insurance company for a claim?</p><p> </p><p>No, he's going to fix his $3 piece of glass himself instead of getting a $50 surcharge for 6 years on his insurance bill.</p><p> </p><p>Its the difference between $3 and $300. I don't get it. Its amazing to me that this company makes any money when I hear stories like this. If it were not for the efficiency built into all our routes because of stop density, I think the some (the minority) of idiots running the show would sink the ship in a hurry. Yes our labor costs are significantly higher than the competition, but Fed-Ex ground doesn't have the luxury of the stop density that UPS currently enjoys.</p><p> </p><p>So the Fed-ex guy gets $27 bucks/hour instead of $29. It doesn't matter because the UPS driver is doing 10 more stops/hour than Fed-Ex ground. He's delivering 10 stops for $27 and I'm delivering 20 for $29. Which is more profitable?</p><p> </p><p>I apologize for going off on this tangent, its just where my train of thought ran too, lol! I hope everyone can understand my rant? ha ha</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="browniehound, post: 732825, member: 4653"] Scratch, I truly feel sorry for you. I think its totally ridiculous that you lost all your safe drving time over a cracked mirror. In my center, a cracked mirror can just be written up on the DVIR and no accident charged. However, if you damaged the $10 (instead of your $3, lol) piece of metal that houses the mirror, then we are charged with an accident. It still doesn't make sense to me. Why does UPS do this to themselves? I really don't get. For example, take small business owners that would hypothetically own 3 or 4 trucks. If one of his employees broke a mirror do you think he is going to call his insurance company for a claim? No, he's going to fix his $3 piece of glass himself instead of getting a $50 surcharge for 6 years on his insurance bill. Its the difference between $3 and $300. I don't get it. Its amazing to me that this company makes any money when I hear stories like this. If it were not for the efficiency built into all our routes because of stop density, I think the some (the minority) of idiots running the show would sink the ship in a hurry. Yes our labor costs are significantly higher than the competition, but Fed-Ex ground doesn't have the luxury of the stop density that UPS currently enjoys. So the Fed-ex guy gets $27 bucks/hour instead of $29. It doesn't matter because the UPS driver is doing 10 more stops/hour than Fed-Ex ground. He's delivering 10 stops for $27 and I'm delivering 20 for $29. Which is more profitable? I apologize for going off on this tangent, its just where my train of thought ran too, lol! I hope everyone can understand my rant? ha ha [/QUOTE]
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