hurricanegunner
UPSPoop
I approached three salesmen at the Toyota dealership on my route and asked them if my 20 year old 800 qualified for a trade in under the "cash for clunkers" program. All three got a kick out of that.
I approached three salesmen at the Toyota dealership on my route and asked them if my 20 year old 800 qualified for a trade in under the "cash for clunkers" program. All three got a kick out of that.
What did they get a kick out of? Your question or UPS still using vehicles older than their first born, lol?
World class company? Third world equipment.
Seriously, lets think about this. UPS is concerned about its image, yet they allow our customers to witness its drivers in trucks manufactured during the Reagan administration and some rare cases the Carter administration.
Our customers witness us "pushing and pulling" the steering wheel to back the truck on the dock. What takes the Fed-ex guy 30 seconds requires the UPS driver more tham twice that get on.
In cul-se-sacs (children, toys, bikes, pets, etc.), the Fed-Ex driver can just turn his truck effortlessly without backing. UPS needs to make a 3 point turn and back at least once. We're talking about large circles here, Smaller dead-eand streets require a 4-8 "point turn" for the lucky UPS driver.
It comes down to a couple of things. Safety and image. If Fed-Ex can afford a 100% power-steering fleet, why can't UPS? On the safety front, no power-steering leads to more backing.
I liken the image concept to two landcapers in one small neighborhood. One landscaper has equipment like most of the others. New truck with a new paint job. New equipment and a proffesional name on all of the vehicles.
The other landscaper is trying to run his business with his 1992 Chevy pick-up and beat-up trailer. Instead of his company name and number painted on his truck, he makes his own sign and puts it on his roof while he does a job.
Which one would you hire?
Seriously, its 2009 and we are driving vehicles with no power-steering???
Good God. Only at UPS. Only at UPS and nowhere else in America.
This brings me to another point. If the day-to-day descions made at the center level had a significant impact on the bottom line, the company would sink faster than the Titanic.
Its my belief that there so much efficency built into the routes by the volume and stop density, that a monkey could make money with a UPS center.
I criticize the center-level management because I see it everyday. Our customers see it everyday and its embarassing. The center will cut a route before the pre-load to save money, but will add a route on road when they realize 5 drivers in 1 town are over 10 hours. Now 1 driver will have to meet 5 others and take work from them. UPS loses in fuel and labor by this miscue.
The only thing I disagree with is that this lunacy is coming from the center level management. They are told everyday how many routes they are allowed to dispatch from the District level and they try to cut routes accordingly. There is some kind of loophole in the dispatch reporting that doesn't show the extra driver sent out to take packages of something to that effect that keeps the process off the daily reports.
Either keep the route out and pay some OT or leave it in and leave the drivers light so there is less OT. Why not let them be under 8 and work 8-8.3 hours? Why dispacth them with 9-9.5 and have them come in at 10-10.5 hours if you are just going to add a route on road to bring them into the 8-8.3 hour range?
It happens all too often at my center. A cover driver is given a list of drivers to meet and the number of stops he is to take. Think of the labor time wasted in this process? The "windshield" time alone of the cover driver to meet the other drivers is enough to make someone sick if they're paying for the driver and the gas.
Its comical that drivers get criticized for not moving our packages into the selection area so we take only one step into the cargo area instead of 5, but the center will pay someone $29/hour to drive 15-25 minutes at a time without delivering 1 parcel to meet a driver. The center will then pay both drivers $29/hour to do nothing except transfer the work.
If it were my business, I would fire the person in charge of this charade on the spot!
That is funny.I approached three salesmen at the Toyota dealership on my route and asked them if my 20 year old 800 qualified for a trade in under the "cash for clunkers" program. All three got a kick out of that.
What did they get a kick out of? Your question or UPS still using vehicles older than their first born, lol?
World class company? Third world equipment.
Seriously, lets think about this. UPS is concerned about its image, yet they allow our customers to witness its drivers in trucks manufactured during the Reagan administration and some rare cases the Carter administration.
Our customers witness us "pushing and pulling" the steering wheel to back the truck on the dock. What takes the Fed-ex guy 30 seconds requires the UPS driver more tham twice that get on.
In cul-se-sacs (children, toys, bikes, pets, etc.), the Fed-Ex driver can just turn his truck effortlessly without backing. UPS needs to make a 3 point turn and back at least once. We're talking about large circles here, Smaller dead-eand streets require a 4-8 "point turn" for the lucky UPS driver.
It comes down to a couple of things. Safety and image. If Fed-Ex can afford a 100% power-steering fleet, why can't UPS? On the safety front, no power-steering leads to more backing.
I liken the image concept to two landcapers in one small neighborhood. One landscaper has equipment like most of the others. New truck with a new paint job. New equipment and a proffesional name on all of the vehicles.
The other landscaper is trying to run his business with his 1992 Chevy pick-up and beat-up trailer. Instead of his company name and number painted on his truck, he makes his own sign and puts it on his roof while he does a job.
Which one would you hire?
Seriously, its 2009 and we are driving vehicles with no power-steering???
Good God. Only at UPS. Only at UPS and nowhere else in America.
This may be the first time I ever agreed with you, although I don't keep notes on who I do or don't agree with.
Ther is one little aspect that I do disagree with though, I'll address it following the paragraph.
Trplnkl, I never understood why the decisions are made at the district level. The people at district cannot possibly know, telematics notwithstanding, how many routes and drivers are needed on a day to day basis. Granted, sometimes they get it right, but just as often they get it wrong. There are simply too many variables that the district cannot take into account(weather, traffic, accidents, injuries, etc.). Why not let the decisions be made at the local level?This may be the first time I ever agreed with you, although I don't keep notes on who I do or don't agree with.
Ther is one little aspect that I do disagree with though, I'll address it following the paragraph.
Well said.What did they get a kick out of? Your question or UPS still using vehicles older than their first born, lol?
World class company? Third world equipment.
Seriously, lets think about this. UPS is concerned about its image, yet they allow our customers to witness its drivers in trucks manufactured during the Reagan administration and some rare cases the Carter administration.
Our customers witness us "pushing and pulling" the steering wheel to back the truck on the dock. What takes the Fed-ex guy 30 seconds requires the UPS driver more tham twice that get on.
In cul-se-sacs (children, toys, bikes, pets, etc.), the Fed-Ex driver can just turn his truck effortlessly without backing. UPS needs to make a 3 point turn and back at least once. We're talking about large circles here, Smaller dead-eand streets require a 4-8 "point turn" for the lucky UPS driver.
It comes down to a couple of things. Safety and image. If Fed-Ex can afford a 100% power-steering fleet, why can't UPS? On the safety front, no power-steering leads to more backing.
I liken the image concept to two landcapers in one small neighborhood. One landscaper has equipment like most of the others. New truck with a new paint job. New equipment and a proffesional name on all of the vehicles.
The other landscaper is trying to run his business with his 1992 Chevy pick-up and beat-up trailer. Instead of his company name and number painted on his truck, he makes his own sign and puts it on his roof while he does a job.
Which one would you hire?
Seriously, its 2009 and we are driving vehicles with no power-steering???
Good God. Only at UPS. Only at UPS and nowhere else in America.
Which reminds me of another embarrasing sight from UPS. Because of EDD and the idiocy of some dispatch sups., we 2 or 3 drivers in the same neighborhood. 2 UPS drivers passing each other in the same small neighborhood. Logic would dictate that its more efficent to just have ONE driver do the one neigborhood street? Instead UPS has to break up this street of about 100 houses to 2 drivers.
Which reminds me of another embarrasing sight from UPS. Because of EDD and the idiocy of some dispatch sups., we 2 or 3 drivers in the same neighborhood. 2 UPS drivers passing each other in the same small neighborhood. Logic would dictate that its more efficent to just have ONE driver do the one neigborhood street? Instead UPS has to break up this street of about 100 houses to 2 drivers.
Brownie
LOL!!Yeah, but neither one of them turned LEFT, did they? Mission accomplished!
I think it is FAR more embarrassing when one driver is picking up a business at 4:55 while another driver is delivering!!!!
Go Brownie Go Brownie Go BrownieDefinitely! I could have continued my rant with your above comment, but I thought I had said enough. Thanks for 'chiming in' Over. Its just not right to operate in this manner. Fed-Ex express and ground don't.
You would never see one Fed-Ex employee delivering a package while another Fed-ex employee is picking up packages. It just doesn't happen at Fed-Ex, but it happens too often at UPS and I'm embarassed about it.
Like I stated earlier, if it was not for volume and stop density the center team would have sunk the company many years ago.
I'm not proud of this either. Management has the reigns to an operation that bears fruit that other companies can only dream of. Problem is, these supervisors don't know what to do with the "keys to the castle".
Harrassing me for sales leads will not incease the bottom line. Focusing your attention on employees to get the trucks wrapped will and drivers out of the building can be seen in real dollars.
Brownie