Should i switch to feeders ?

[barnyard]

1 minute with 10lbs of lost pressure? I think my state is 4psi lost in 1 minute for a combination vehicle. My memory sucks with old age!!

Which is why it is a good idea to read the CDL manual. The specifics are there.

 

[Indecisi0n]

No

 

[hondo]

Yep I already have my A license. Besides the basics What is UPS looking for in the pre trip

If you have time, get a copy of the "UPS" pre-trip for feeder.

Will they be testing you at your home center, or do you have to go to a hub?

 

[DC7]

Home center

 

[DC7]

Road test tomorrow

 

[DOK]

Ups is creating 15 new feeder runs for the new Amazon hub and are looking for drivers to go into feeders. Does anyone having experience doing feeder runs out of Amazon hub? I heard that there will be a trailer leaving every hour and there is usually one guy just assign to the Amazon yard but it's all rumors.

Why would ups do that with Amazon starting to move their own stuff now?

 

[silenze]

Amazon always moved their own stuff via 3rd party contracts. Now that they have their own trailers they can bid out each individual load instead of the run.

 

[Johney]

Amazon always moved their own stuff via 3rd party contracts. Now that they have their own trailers they can bid out each individual load instead of the run.

How close are you to a Amazon dist. center?

 

[silenze]

How close are you to a Amazon dist. center?

About 24 minutes

 

[Johney]

About 24 minutes

And they don't have a few feeder runs going there nightly?

 

[silenze]

And they don't have a few feeder runs going there nightly?

We have 1 that goes there twice. You will lose jobs and volume guaranteed.

 

[silenze]

The entire reason amazon is building that facility is to divert volume to the post office and deliver same day with contractors

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

The entire reason amazon is building that facility is to divert volume to the post office and deliver same day with contractors

In addition to taking "our" volume, I wonder how many of "our" management people they will take.

 

[Bottom rung]

In addition to taking "our" volume, I wonder how many of "our" management people they will take.

Good riddance to those "management people" management are not people, you'd have to be human first. They don't qualify.

 

[OVERBOARD]

Why would ups do that with Amazon starting to move their own stuff now?

All I know is Amazon going to open a one million square foot warehouse on 77 acres of land

 

[silenze]

Mke1 is a million square feet and right behind it mke 5 is a half million
The only volume we get now is for our extended centers

 

[OVERBOARD]

Mke1 is a million square feet and right behind it mke 5 is a half million
The only volume we get now is for our extended centers

It will be better for me I'll get my CDL and not have to go into feeders right away. I can wait until I get more seniority and don't have to cover. The classes start next week Ups is training 15 drivers for when Amazon opens in the fall, that's is what I was told.

 

[Star B]

They built a second one in Kenosha? I'm suprised they just didn't expand the first one.

 

[silenze]

They built them at the same time.

 

[Orion inc.]

Yeah they said that here too. Never happened. The one run we have that goes there replaced another that was lost. Amazon is phasing ups out

Other way around, ups is phasing Amazon out