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Damnit, Steamer. Are you a runner?No one has their own route or package car. They all belong to UPS and we are all expendable.
@MECH-lift i think we got ourselves a runner
How long until you won your first bid route?
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@MECH-lift i think we got ourselves a runner
MECH-lift
Union Brother ✊🧔 RPCD
Netsua 3:16
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Orion’s making me 💰
Active Member
21 years for me
FedUPSer9816
Full Service
I was an off the street hire from FedEx Express peak 2016. Then laid off, rehired as an air driver for 2 months, then FT RPCD when Saturday Ground rolled out. Got my own bidded route my 2nd year for 2 years, though it was a training route. Now on a late start trip that nobody likes, UPS Store sucks. But I like it, no airs, dropboxes at night, guaranteed 9.5 M-friend top rate money in the bank!
Overpaid Union Thug
Well-Known Member
Getting a bid route nowadays is no big deal since some supplements started requiring that ALL routes be bid. Getting a decent route is the goal now. And that’s personal preference.
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They really need to do this in my local. But our volume fluctuates so much that on any given week we can be plus or minus 15-20 routes. When we have slow days the layoffs are insane. Then the next day, we’re all on road and bricked out.
I will say, part of it has to do with what I gather to be purposeful volume manipulation on Saturdays/MONDAYS, when really those two days combined are just a normal ass full operating day, but they HAVE to justify staffing on Saturdays. Saturdays are a joke.
Covemastah
Hoopah drives the boat Chief !!
Day I was hired , went to sheet writing class on a Wednesday, was put on a route the following Monday
Covemastah
Hoopah drives the boat Chief !!
I did work on the Twi during peak of 87, left on good terms rehired in Jan of 89 and was one of the only guys on interview that could drive a stick , so they threw me on a package car
Netsua 3:16
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Just bored? Or they permanently blew up your route? We’ve had 2 extremely high seniority guys leave their routes of 15+ years recently to go cover and take the extra layoffs. Of which, right now, THERE ARE NONE
That’s how I got my route. The pickups suck because of distance between work areas, used to be more manageable but now nobody wants it. Except THIS GUY
allahuakbar
She/Her
A year and 3 months to get my own route.
barnyard
KTM rider
My area shrunk significantly. Instead of staying in my bid area, I am pushed into the neighboring route. It is right around 55% my route. There are days that a cut car is put in and that route is 100% my bid route. Most of the time when I have an 8 hour request, I have to bring stops back. My route used to have 2ish hours of rural routes every day. I have not been in those areas in 2 years.
I have enough seniority that I would be the #1 cover and would be able to choose the routes I cover. I am feeder qualified, so I work a feeder run at peak.
I would prefer to do as little as possible for the time I have remaining at the box factory.
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Nice thing about being high seniority cover is you can run those gravy junk routes with no pickups!! Protect your body on the way out brother
cornjewels
Member
1 year PT, 6 months driving, which included a failed 30 day packet and then going seasonal. Once I made book after my second attempt, it took 11 months for me to get a bid route. City route that nobody else was interested in. Not the best area, but I have no regrets.
Whereistheunion
Well-Known Member
Considering how undesirable these driving jobs have become. Probably less than 2 years.
evilleace
Well-Known Member
I must be in the minority in that I like having pickups.
