Catatonic
Nine Lives
Its not the money but UPS is afraid of the repercussions from losing the case.
No doubt ...
Its not the money but UPS is afraid of the repercussions from losing the case.
DOT laws also specify being within reasonable distance of facilities such as food and bathrooms. Not sure the availability late at night at the airport, but many air drivers tell me...nada.The big change associated with this, as I can interpret, is that drivers at t/a will no longer have to keep their vehicle in sight and they are not responsible for the security of the vehicle while on break.
If there is a driving range next door, they can go hit some golf balls.
I would think most airport t/a would be secure but if not, UPS may have to eat the time if driver has to stay close to vehicle.
Looks like feeder schedulers have some investigative and creative thinking to do.
I wonder if UPS management expectation/policy/understanding has changed recently in regards to feeder drivers taking meal break at turnaround?
Step over a dollar to pick up a nickel, that's what I constantly see.Its an awesome decision. Almost 500K to the driver for UPS stupidity. This is the result of YES men at the helm of the operation.
Just another case where UPS corporate allows ignorant overzealous morons to make business decisions that cost this company thousands of dollars.
CONGRATS to Feeder driver T. Bishop in his long battle and ultimate victory against UPS!!
I hope this serves as a lesson learned for the company, but I doubt it will.
Do your center feeder drivers a favor, print all 24 pages of this decision and pass it out to the feeder department drivers! The drivers of other centers are going through this same thing currently.
Spread the word, "THE WICKED OLD WITCH IS DEAD".
TOS
Driver made over 100k the year before and had to file for bankruptcy within 4 months of being fired. Good lesson.
Here on the east coast we have been told that if we have to wait more than 20 minutes for our meet guy we have to use at least 30 minutes of meal....it took almost four months before I was told to start doing this. Previously I used other work/equipment delay for the down time then took my meal about 90 minutes down the road after we swapped...
I felt this was a fair compromise since some days I would be sleeping..errrrr....WAITING for almost two hours before my guy would show.
I agree with those posting previously. If i "had" to go on lunch waiting on another driver then I'm taking all of it.
I like the fact that when on lunch, we are free to do what we want. Now if I can just get the Ice Cream shop to open at 0200.