UPS Acronyms--For Newbies, Old-Timers and Everybody In-between (On Topic)

[Coldworld]

Miss those challenge of the 80's meetings
Free food and booze

TLA’s????

 

[Coldworld]

My favorite was always MAR

Minimum acceptable requirements

Used to laugh when the boss said we need to talk about your MAR

Ok, whatever

When they were inside the trailer with a stopwatch figuring out you MAR??? I don’t even think they do that anymore....

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

TLA’s????

No

 

[Coldworld]

No

#kneepad-meetings

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

#kneepad-meetings

#who cares

 

[Analbumcover]

RDO: Route Delivery Order

Never heard of that one.

 

[BottomFeeder909]

Dgaf



Figure it out yourself.

Don't give a friend*

 

[Wally]

TLA’s????

T&A? Not at UPS.

 

[BottomFeeder909]

...

 

[BottomFeeder909]

Wow!

 

[suff0cati0n]

Are you constantly being bombarded with UPS acronyms and not sure what they mean?

Here's just a few:

CIR: Commercial Inside Release

DART: Days Away, Restrict or Transferred

DIAD: Delivery Information Acquisition Device

DOL: Delivery Order Listing (old school!)

DPS: Dispatch Planning System

DVIR: Driver Vehicle Inspection Report

HR: Human Resources

IE: Industrial Engineering

LP: Loss Prevention

OCA: On Call Air

ODS: On-demand Services

ODO: Orion Delivery Order

OJS: On-the-job Supervision

OMS: Operation Management Specialist

PAS: Preload Assist System

PCM: Pre-work Communications Meeting

PVD: Personal Vehicle Delivery

RDO: Route Delivery Order

TAW: Temporary Alternate Work

TLA: Talk, Listen and Act (old school!)

WOR: Weekly Operations Report

If you can think of anything else (that's on topic), please feel free to add. Help us all stay in the know!

DA: Data Acquisition

 

[Wally]

TLA’s????

T&A? Not at UPS.

 

[BakerMayfield2018]

I just did....

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

Are you constantly being bombarded with UPS acronyms and not sure what they mean?

Here's just a few:

CIR: Commercial Inside Release

DART: Days Away, Restrict or Transferred

DIAD: Delivery Information Acquisition Device

DOL: Delivery Order Listing (old school!)

DPS: Dispatch Planning System

DVIR: Driver Vehicle Inspection Report

HR: Human Resources

IE: Industrial Engineering

LP: Loss Prevention

OCA: On Call Air

ODS: On-demand Services

ODO: Orion Delivery Order

OJS: On-the-job Supervision

OMS: Operation Management Specialist

PAS: Preload Assist System

PCM: Pre-work Communications Meeting

PVD: Personal Vehicle Delivery

RDO: Route Delivery Order

TAW: Temporary Alternate Work

TLA: Talk, Listen and Act (old school!)

WOR: Weekly Operations Report

If you can think of anything else (that's on topic), please feel free to add. Help us all stay in the know!

DiLLiGAF

 

[Old Man Jingles]

Every once in awhile if you got stuck with something off your normal route we would put WL 1 on a package. I don't know if management was playing along or just too plain stupid to realize it stood for Won't Locate 1 but I never heard of anyone getting in trouble for using it.

UTL - Unable To Locate

 

[Heavy Package]

Are you constantly being bombarded with UPS acronyms and not sure what they mean?

If you can think of anything else (that's on topic), please feel free to add.

TPS: This Place Sucks

HCDR: Hot Chick Driver Release

CIRP: Commercial Indirect Release Last Name Patel (Use for any gas station)

CBA: Customer is a Bitch Alert

POGH: Punch Out Go Home

 

[Feeder665]

 

[Covemastah]

AOD
Acknowledgment of delivery. Tag

 

[Covemastah]

HWA
Hundred weight account

 

[Covemastah]

Tracer ::: was a driver follow up