please help

[ManInBrown]

It just seems like the drivers are miserable.

We are. But the paychecks ease the pain

 

[UPSGUY72]

Not if I cover drive

Are your going to be a FT or a TCD cover driver. Either way there is a progression and as TCD your not guaranteed a route each day and when you work on the inside for your 3 1/2 guaranteed it's at your inside rate not your TCD rate.

In the end working ever day as a FT driver and going through the progression is going to make you more than work a couple of months as a TCD and the rest inside the building at a drastically lower rate.

 

[Brownslave688]

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Hatin it to the tune of almost $450 today.

Oh yeah I think I can veal with that.

 

[rha]

Are your going to be a FT or a TCD cover driver. Either way there is a progression and as TCD your not guaranteed a route each day and when you work on the inside for your 3 1/2 guaranteed it's at your inside rate not your TCD rate.

In the end working ever day as a FT driver and going through the progression is going to make you more than work a couple of months as a TCD and the rest inside the building at a drastically lower rate.

Are your going to be a FT or a TCD cover driver. Either way there is a progression and as TCD your not guaranteed a route each day and when you work on the inside for your 3 1/2 guaranteed it's at your inside rate not your TCD rate.

In the end working ever day as a FT driver and going through the progression is going to make you more than work a couple of months as a TCD and the rest inside the building at a drastically lower rate.

Most cover drivers work every day at $28hr an I still do alright in the building at $17.31. Ill keep signing the bid sheets for full time but my name is up for the cover driving class.

 

[scooby0048]

Most cover drivers work every day at $28hr an I still do alright in the building at $17.31. Ill keep signing the bid sheets for full time buty name is up for the cover driving class.

Good luck and keep plugging along, there are plenty of drivers who will take a day off so you should be able to get some hours.

 

[rha]

Sounds like you think cover driving is a bad idea.

 

[scooby0048]

Sounds like you think cover driving is a bad idea.

If you're asking me...I'm telling you that you will get some hours. And good luck...break a leg...go get em...you know good luck, don't know any other way to say it!

 

[scooby0048]

I think NOT cover driving is a bad idea. Is that clearer

 

[rha]

I think NOT cover driving is a bad idea. Is that clearer

I guess it is clearer but still not clear enough. I can't ever get straight answers it's like a secret society. I drive air already. So give it to me straight.

 

[scooby0048]

I guess it is clearer but still not clear enough. I can't ever get straight answers it's like a secret society. I drive air already. So give it to me straight.

Air is like a reward...real easy low stress. Not a bad gig but not enough hours. Cover driver is almost as easy, some stress but not bad. Cover driver makes more money and usually can get more hours without the headaches of full time driving. If you're being offered an opportunity to cover drive, jump on it because that will give you area knowledge, route knowledge, and here's the secret...more $$$.

 

[rha]

I got you. I just saw your previous post. Sorry.

 

[rha]

Gotcha thanks

 

[Brownslave688]

I guess it is clearer but still not clear enough. I can't ever get straight answers it's like a secret society. I drive air already. So give it to me straight.

Making it in package everyday is a whole nother beast compared to air. I'm not saying you can't do but be prepared to kick it up a notch. Or 10

 

[bleedinbrown58]

Hatin it to the tune of almost $450 today.

Oh yeah I think I can veal with that.

Wow..Veal....the other, other white meat...lol

Sugar daddy??

Yes please....candy on a stick? I'm in!

 

[ZQXC]

So give it to me straight.

Seriously?

 

[ZQXC]

Making it in package everyday is a whole nother beast compared to air. I'm not saying you can't do but be prepared to kick it up a notch. Or 10

Anybody can run package; guy at my center is in his sixties, out there every day slinging parcels and wowing the ladies.

 

[ZQXC]

It just seems like the drivers are miserable.

Happy don't pay the bills / Life is about choices

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Air is like a reward...real easy low stress. Not a bad gig but not enough hours. Cover driver is almost as easy, some stress but not bad. Cover driver makes more money and usually can get more hours without the headaches of full time driving. If you're being offered an opportunity to cover drive, jump on it because that will give you area knowledge, route knowledge, and here's the secret...more $$$.

I disagree that cover drivers do not have any of the headaches of full time driving. Depending on the route and the bid driver, the cover driver can really struggle when covering a bid route.

That being said, air driving will not pay the bills.

 

[bleedinbrown58]

Happy don't pay the bills / Life is about choices

"Your choices are half chance....so are everybody else's."

 

[rha]

I disagree that cover drivers do not have any of the headaches of full time driving. Depending on the route and the bid driver, the cover driver can really struggle when covering a bid route.

That being said, air driving will not pay the bills.

Air is not gonna cut it.