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My husband is stuck on the dreaded satellite route...
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<blockquote data-quote="beentheredonethat" data-source="post: 726570" data-attributes="member: 4886"><p>Satellite routes are reexamined periodically to ensure that they actually save money for UPS. So occasionally one or two will be taken down. But in large part satellite routes are increasing. There are some big savings for UPS. The best types of satellites are when it's a one of, (sounds like your husbands), where it's a rural route, he has another driver in his general area where he drives a TP60 out to the satellite driver and\or loaded unto the existing drivers car. Then they can offload\load his car and he's off. The initial savings for UPS is that we can eliminate an hour of travel both to and from the area each day. If you had 4 drivers with similar charateristics that's 4 drivers driving 2 hours just to get on area\off area. That's basically one driver of savings. Also, the other savings is that by having drivers in satellites, it can delay when UPS needs to build a new building or expand an existing one. This in itself is a large saving. Also, the 2 hour drive time is quite a few gallons of gas on are package cars that gets saved. I know of a few area here, where the satellite drivers actually lived about an hour from the center and now with the satellite they have a 5 min drive to the center. So in some cases, the drivers are loving it for this reason alone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="beentheredonethat, post: 726570, member: 4886"] Satellite routes are reexamined periodically to ensure that they actually save money for UPS. So occasionally one or two will be taken down. But in large part satellite routes are increasing. There are some big savings for UPS. The best types of satellites are when it's a one of, (sounds like your husbands), where it's a rural route, he has another driver in his general area where he drives a TP60 out to the satellite driver and\or loaded unto the existing drivers car. Then they can offload\load his car and he's off. The initial savings for UPS is that we can eliminate an hour of travel both to and from the area each day. If you had 4 drivers with similar charateristics that's 4 drivers driving 2 hours just to get on area\off area. That's basically one driver of savings. Also, the other savings is that by having drivers in satellites, it can delay when UPS needs to build a new building or expand an existing one. This in itself is a large saving. Also, the 2 hour drive time is quite a few gallons of gas on are package cars that gets saved. I know of a few area here, where the satellite drivers actually lived about an hour from the center and now with the satellite they have a 5 min drive to the center. So in some cases, the drivers are loving it for this reason alone. [/QUOTE]
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