Originally Posted by Hoaxster
Just curious, do you think the metro commercial UPS driver should make 30-40% more than the rural/residential UPS driver?
No, the ass pounding on back roads in an old P5, non power steering, bench seat(meaning 1inch of foam over a plywood based pedestal seat with 800,000 miles on it makes up the difference between packages and miles.
The reason I ask is that the primary differences between a UPS route and a FedEx Express route is Stop Density, Packages per Stop and Weight per Package.
Wrong, and at the same time, Right. The debate is between fedex pay/per production and Ups pay per/production. Based on ratio of actual production, they make more than we do.
In my case, there are 3 Fedex drivers covering the same area.
Between the 3 Fedex drivers, I deliver more pkgs and deliver more stops than any of them combined,not to mention that two of them are in a/c, powered steering vans.
So, back to my basic premise.
I make $29/hr driving one beat up old pkg car.
3 Fedex drivers make $15/hr.(just a guess on my part) to cover the same area and volume.
Simple math.
Fedex= $45/hr(plus bennies) and the cost of running 3 trucks.
UPS= $29/hr(plus bennies) and the cost of running one POS P5 pkg car.
These are the same primary differences between a UPS metro commercial route and a UPS rural/residential route.
I can only address the rural aspect, as I have, but, I doubt that the business model is that different in the metro/commercial ares.