Keeping a Route While in the Military

[Seymour Packages]

Does an RPCD keep their route while training or deployed? Bids are for life in my local. I was at the right place at the right time and I bid on a very good route compared to 95% of the other routes in my building. If I go away to Basic Training then AIT school or when I am eventually deployed, will my route be put up for permanent bid? I know UPS has to hold my job, continue my progression, and my local will hold my seniority, but I can find anything on keeping my route. Thanks.

 

[Staydryitsraining]

Bids are for life? How ing miserable

 

[PT Car Washer]

Bids are for life? How *ing miserable

Either for life or until you bid another route.

 

[allahuakbar]

Here it’s held till ya get back. I’m not saying where here is tho.

 

[Wally]

Bids are for life? How *ing miserable

Why? People quit, retire, transfer all the time. If that's not agreeable, stay a split driver.

 

[allahuakbar]

Why? People quit, retire, transfer all the time. If that's not agreeable, stay a split driver.

Exactly. You can just abandon the route too.

 

[Overpaid Union Thug]

Does an RPCD keep their route while training or deployed? Bids are for life in my local. I was at the right place at the right time and I bid on a very good route compared to 95% of the other routes in my building. If I go away to Basic Training then AIT school or when I am eventually deployed, will my route be put up for permanent bid? I know UPS has to hold my job, continue my progression, and my local will hold my seniority, but I can find anything on keeping my route. Thanks.

If it was your bid route before you shipped then it’s yours when you come back. They can probably (depends on your local language) temporarily bid it until you get back.

Also....any route that comes open while you’re gone is yours when you come back if you want it. And if you have seniority over whoever won the bid in your absence.

 

[trickpony1]

So there are no misunderstandings, the OP should get a withdrawal card from his local union office prior to this break in employment. Safeguard this document.

Don't accept the:
"oh...well...we don't do that anymore. It's on the computer that you are in the military.".

Get a document that says that.

Thank you for your service.

 

[Overpaid Union Thug]

So there are no misunderstandings, the OP should get a withdrawal card from his local union office prior to this break in employment. Safeguard this document.

Don't accept the:
"oh...well...we don't do that anymore. It's on the computer that you are in the military.".

Get a document that says that.

Thank you for your service.

I didn’t know about that when I enlisted. Luckily my local is cool and didn’t back due my ass when I got back

 

[Staydryitsraining]

Why? People quit, retire, transfer all the time. If that's not agreeable, stay a split driver.

Yea but say the route is trash you bidded it and now the other routes are taken so now your screwed.

 

[rustys954rr]

Yea but say the route is trash you bidded it and now the other routes are taken so now your screwed.

Around here you get a week or something to decide if you want the route. I've know guys just to bid routes to get out of their heavy pickups on Mondays.

 

[Feeder665]

We have a guy in the reserves who had a sweet route. He’s been deployed 3-4 times in the 15 years I’ve been at ups. He has always come back to his route. In Northern California