browniehound
Well-Known Member
We can always argue about what the company could do better. Sales leads can be entered on your own personal upsers.com web page where you can track the acitivity on each account. Your position is overstated. The truth is the company does work the sales leads but does not work them enough. The truth is the drivers have not done their best to gain business because many are afraid the sales lead will generate more work for them.
Lets try to stay in the truth zone and away from the bullshcit.
In the past my opinion was pickups are better than deliveries. I would rather spend my time picking up parcels than delivering them. For this reason I always seek out pickup volume.
I had a route about 1-2 years ago that had 23 PUs. With my deliveries I was always around 9.1-9.3. I put a sales lead in for a new shipper. Well this customer ships 50-80 grounds! That would be OK but at least 5 of them are over 70 lbs. and at least 2.5 feet in diameter!
It makes the route over 9.5 now, but I guess the volume gain makes up for it? No help is sent to keep me under 9.5.
I want to grow the businesss. I just don't want it to happen on my route so I'm over 9.5. This is a legitimate gripe I believe. I don't want to work more than 9 hours. I don't want more than 9 any day but its the nature of the business that I'm willings to accept.
I thought it was wonderful to gain the pick-up. Problem is UPS didn't take any house calls off of me. I know have to work over 9.5 everyday. I don't want over 9.5 and I work it due to 1 sales lead. What do I do now? Enter another one so I'm over 10 everyday???
Sorry, but I'm done.