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<blockquote data-quote="Brownsocks" data-source="post: 3144832" data-attributes="member: 68379"><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p> 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.</p><p>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.</p><p> 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.</p><p>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<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/censored2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="Censored2 :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" /> this industry has to offer.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Just because someone is new doesn't mean they don't have value, experience and knowledge.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brownsocks, post: 3144832, member: 68379"] 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:censored: 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. [/QUOTE]
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