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<blockquote data-quote="Gladiator" data-source="post: 193185" data-attributes="member: 9839"><p>Comparing UPS workloads with FedEx workloads is just apples and oranges. I assume your drivers do all the same things that our Express, Ground, and Home Delivery drivers do independently. While there is some crossover, Express goes out with a little lighter freight and is all time oriented. Not to mention that they are employees like UPS. Ground takes most of the bulk business deliveries and pickups. In the metro areas they could have huge loads, but there are some drivers who go up to 400 miles with only about 40-50 stops. There's nothing easier than Home Delivery. While we do load our own trucks like Ground, we rarely have to deal with customers. Less than 10% of what we deliver requires a signature so over 90% of what we do is drop-n-dash. We'll get the occasional business, mostly it's clothes that a secretarty ordered so we don't have to go through the usual loading dock nightmare. We can often just pull up to the main entrance and drop something off with the receptionist. Anyway, we are still spread out pretty good compared to UPS. I think my delivery area has at least 5-6 UPS drivers, possibly twice that. I do about 130 stops a day with about 130 miles. We have a couple of drivers who do about half the miles with the same number of stops. We also have 3-4 routes that do between 300 and 400 miles with 50-90 stops. Some of the towns we hit on the outskirts of our area have their own UPS terminals, so they aren't covering near the area that we are out of a given terminal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gladiator, post: 193185, member: 9839"] Comparing UPS workloads with FedEx workloads is just apples and oranges. I assume your drivers do all the same things that our Express, Ground, and Home Delivery drivers do independently. While there is some crossover, Express goes out with a little lighter freight and is all time oriented. Not to mention that they are employees like UPS. Ground takes most of the bulk business deliveries and pickups. In the metro areas they could have huge loads, but there are some drivers who go up to 400 miles with only about 40-50 stops. There's nothing easier than Home Delivery. While we do load our own trucks like Ground, we rarely have to deal with customers. Less than 10% of what we deliver requires a signature so over 90% of what we do is drop-n-dash. We'll get the occasional business, mostly it's clothes that a secretarty ordered so we don't have to go through the usual loading dock nightmare. We can often just pull up to the main entrance and drop something off with the receptionist. Anyway, we are still spread out pretty good compared to UPS. I think my delivery area has at least 5-6 UPS drivers, possibly twice that. I do about 130 stops a day with about 130 miles. We have a couple of drivers who do about half the miles with the same number of stops. We also have 3-4 routes that do between 300 and 400 miles with 50-90 stops. Some of the towns we hit on the outskirts of our area have their own UPS terminals, so they aren't covering near the area that we are out of a given terminal. [/QUOTE]
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