Satellite driver question

[Package_Donkey14]

If you're a satellite driver, is it OK for your stupervisor to send you a text 1hr before your scheduled start time telling you due to low volume you are laid-off today?

 

[PT Car Washer]

If you're a satellite driver, is it OK for your stupervisor to send you a text 1hr before your scheduled start time telling you due to low volume you are laid-off today?

Better then waiting until you get to work.

 

[Brownslave688]

Depends. Do you want to work?

 

[Package_Donkey14]

I always want to work.

 

[BakerMayfield2018]

If you're a satellite driver, is it OK for your stupervisor to send you a text 1hr before your scheduled start time telling you due to low volume you are laid-off today?

As long as no one with more senority than you is working.

 

[bottomups]

You can be laid off if you are the lowest seniority person. If anyone in your center with less seniority is working, ask to bump them and head into work.
Lots of fresh snow out there today. Take the day off and stay warm.

 

[Brownslave688]

I always want to work.

Then tell them you'll run a route out of the center.

 

[By The Book]

I always want to work.

Just because they cut your route doesn't mean you aren't entitled to drive. You can bump into the center and run a route from there. This is if you have more seniority than the other driver at the building. If you have a satellite route you probably have more seniority than the lower third in your building, yes?

 

[By The Book]

As long as no one with more senority than you is working.

I think you mean less?

 

[3 done 3 to go]

Its all about where your seniority lies. Have higher -- you can always work. If you want too

 

[BrownTexas]

I wouldn't answer the call or text and would show up accordingly. You are then guaranteed 8 hours of work. They are suppose to tell you by the end of your previous shift. This one hour bs is for the birds.

 

[By The Book]

I wouldn't answer the call or text and would show up accordingly. You are then guaranteed 8 hours of work. They are suppose to tell you by the end of your previous shift. This one hour bs is for the birds.

In most cases you are scheduled for the week, so it's on the schedule.

 

[BrownTexas]

As a full time driver being texted by his supervisor I would play dumb and then force them to pay me while I sit at home if there is no other work.

 

[BakerMayfield2018]

I think you mean less?

Lol. Yes. Yes I do.

 

[Package_Donkey14]

I'm being told I can not bump into the preload and drive on the same day... is this true?

 

[Turdferguson]

I'm being told I can not bump into the preload and drive on the same day... is this true?

I could see where that would cause a problem with DOT hours.

 

[box_beeyotch]

Next time ignore the text or call, by answering and not showing up on time you have voided your guarantee of 8. Also you should be allowed to bump into preload, you're allowed to bump into two part times shifts to get your 8.

 

[ManInBrown]

What's your satellite route like? If you don't mind me asking. I've always been intrigued by satellite routes. My center and where I live is a heavily populated area. No Sat routes anywhere near me. I used to have a family friend who had a Sat rt in Nevada. Way out in the boonies.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I'm being told I can not bump into the preload and drive on the same day... is this true?

Yes. The only way you could do both is if you agree to work for hours on road.

 

[3 done 3 to go]

There is no way in hell. That I'm not heading into work via text message. Unless you are an hr away from the building or something like that. Make them call you. Are you the last guy on the list? You have got to have more than others. Plenty of work if you go get it