Wally
BrownCafe Innovator & King of Puns
How about the smell?
Tips for new drivers!
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Wilson1397
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true!!
I can't even imagine.
OptimusPrime
Well-Known Member
Wrong, WRONG, and wrong. It's the snowflake bid drivers quaking in their boots they might not have "my truck" for a day or two. Go to cover a route. Hmm, gas gauge doesn't work. Steering has six inches of slop so the truck wanders all over the place. Seat belt doesn't latch properly. Bulkhead door doesn't open unless you say a specific prayer under the new moon. Rear door doesn't actually lock. (Had an old timer pissed I wrote this up. "That's the way I like it!") Drove a truck that didn't have 2nd gear, route guy told me I should "make do" instead of writing it. Don't put this crap on swing guys.
Brownsocks
Just a dog
I am a new driver and was hired off the street as an ft package driver. I spent 15 years of my career working for some of the largest FCs and DCs on the east cost.cosmo1 said:
I have delivered, received, sorted, picked, packed, shipped, been in Inventory control, Ran shipping and delivered. I remember the days of paper and pen pick lists and Ups pickups when most people (including myself) didn't even know what an rf gun was or how to generate a barcode.
In my time in distribution I really have watched the way the whole industry has instituted technology and not always in a positive way, I.E. - Orion use in heavily populated areas.
It doesn't take a veteran to know that criss- crossing 4 lane roads and trying to get to a 7,000 in your fully loaded package car works rural, but is a waste of time in the city when all you got to do is run rdo.
I follow trace but I don't hesitate to break trace if I know it doesn't make sense and I run my stops in a way that effectively links one section of my route to the next.
I knock out the little neighborhoods I have nda in while im there and I'm not going to back track a mile towards nowhere to deliver one even number package I can cross the street for. Management hasn't said anything to me about how I run my route probably because I was scratching in 4 days and hitting all my air, commits and buisnesses.
I guess what im trying to say is just because someone is new and doesnt have 5 years + on preload waiting their turn to drive doesn't disqualify them. Sop and common sense is almost a universal requirement in logistics and lots of non Ups people have worked in 130 degree + trailers and dealt with all the bull
this industry has to offer.Pc/ feeder driver is the logical progression for someone like me and I love Ups and value the friendships I have developed with pc drivers at the centers I have worked at.
I would have loved to put in my grunt work at Ups, but wasn't going to drive 1 hr for 4hr worth of work and a 10 year wait to drive, I had a family to feed.
Just because someone is new doesn't mean they don't have value, experience and knowledge.
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Tom MacDonald
Max E. Pads
I am a new driver and was hired off the street as an ft package driver. I spent 15 years of my career working for some of the largest FCs and DCs on the east cost.
I have delivered, received, sorted, picked, packed, shipped, been in Inventory control, Ran shipping and delivered. I remember the days of paper and pen pick lists and Ups pickups when most people (including myself) didn't even know what an rf gun was or how to generate a barcode.
In my time in distribution I really have watched the way the whole industry has instituted technology and not always in a positive way, I.E. - Orion use in heavily populated areas.
It doesn't take a veteran to know that criss- crossing 4 lane roads and trying to get to a 7,000 in your fully loaded package car works rural, but is a waste of time in the city when all you got to do is run rdo.
I follow trace but I don't hesitate to break trace if I know it doesn't make sense and I run my stops in a way that effectively links one section of my route to the next.
I knock out the little neighborhoods I have nda in while im there and I'm not going to back track a mile towards nowhere to deliver one even number package I can cross the street for. Management hasn't said anything to me about how I run my route probably because I was scratching in 4 days and hitting all my air, commits and buisnesses.
I guess what im trying to say is just because someone is new and doesnt have 5 years + on preload waiting their turn to drive doesn't disqualify them. Sop and common sense is almost a universal requirement in logistics and lots of non Ups people have worked in 130 degree + trailers and dealt with all the bull
Pc/ feeder driver is the logical progression for someone like me and I love Ups and value the friendships I have developed with pc drivers at the centers I have worked at.
I would have loved to put in my grunt work at Ups, but wasn't going to drive 1 hr for 4hr worth of work and a 10 year wait to drive, I had a family to feed.
Just because someone is new doesn't mean they don't have value, experience and knowledge.
Umm ok
1. Tl;dr
2. You take
way too personal especially from the didlos on this website.3. Smoke some weed
Ms.PacMan
Well-Known Member
I remember this video on the news. It's in Honolulu during peak a couple yrs ago.
