I'm serious.
Hope IE has to run routes when we strike
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Jkloc420
Do you need an air compressor or tire gauge
I need numbers
Johney
Pineapple King
It doesn't matter.
Johney
Pineapple King
I get that, but don't think the next one or the one after that can't screw you.
Heavy Package
Well-Known Member
IE is hard at work planning for August. I'm really worried, and you should be as well.
IESucks
Well-Known Member
Worried? NahIE is hard at work planning for August. I'm really worried, and you should be as well.
gman042
Been around the block a few times
IESucks
Well-Known Member
Don't they have it now?
brown_trousers
Well-Known Member
PVD is still in its infancy, im sure UPS is keeping a close eye on amazons PVD system, and figuring out how they could implement it themselves
We had some PVDs for peak. All but one quit in the first week. The other quit in the second week.
brown_trousers
Well-Known Member
It would make sense that they would quit. But yet amazon and uber somehow maintain a large workforce despite the reports that many of these people are making little to no money.
OrioN
double tap o da horn dooshbag
I know of a UPS driver working for Amazon flex on Sundays...and of course, not reporting it to UPS (HOS reset period)
if one knows how to maintain a vehicle themselves, it is more profitable for them. I'm thinking about doing that, since it's staged as 4-hour time block at a time...
brown_trousers
Well-Known Member
A UPS driver thats not getting enough hours, and needs extra work somewhere else??? I want his job!
OrioN
double tap o da horn dooshbag
He's a first year driver, hired after peak 2017.
Monday to Friday driver, but I guess that's not enough; he's out there on the road on Saturday and Sunday
3 more years to top rate?
<shrugs>
brown_trousers
Well-Known Member
Oh goodness! It took me years working at UPS just to get to $10 an hour. And almost a decade of part time work before getting a driving bid.
What do these new drivers start at? Like $18 hour
eats packages
Deranged lunatic
It's the workload honestly. Breaking even = a light day delivering some small stuff or just picking up a few people.
The workforce that actually works all day (and have take-home pay) is much smaller. And I think eventually the issues of maintaining a huge number of contractors that want a small workload are going to catch up to to these companies. It's not 9.5. It is 2 hours or less for most.
PT Car Washer
Well-Known Member
The logistics of having a hundred Uber drivers doing the work of one package car driver, dependably day after day, cancels out any cost savings if any. And UPS knows this.
brown_trousers
Well-Known Member
If thats the case, then we dont need contract language forbidding UPS from using PVD.
But i have a feeling we do need to stop UPS. They would absolutely replace us with PVD if we let them
