Diesel,
Once again, I must take a moment and address you. While it appears that you have the best intention in mind when you post, it is always the intention that draws my attention.
The post you quoted was clear and understandable. You READ too much into most posts and take them out of context. I really question your ability to comprehend what is really being said most of the time.
Clearly, sawdusty is speaking in terms of "Industry Standards" based on the profitability of the largest company in the world in this industry.
Industry Standards set the bar for others to follow. Maybe you would like to have your feeder pay reduced to $22.00 an hour and your hours reduced to a 40 hour workweek so that the Shareholders can get the remaining part of your paycheck?
Maybe you'd like to see our fellow sleeper drivers making .41 cents a mile like the gypo's who are desperate for work just so the company can show a greater bottom line?
I'll tell you what, as a feeder driver on this board, offer to have your rate of pay reduced and set a standard for all of us to follow. Once you are on the record as willing to have your rate of pay reduced so the stockholders can get a bigger piece of the pie, then we will know you are serious.
Who's interest are you looking out to protect? The shareholders?
You seem genuinely worried about the profitability and future of the company, and as I have said before, your "chicken little" impression is getting old.
Hopefully, you dont have that many years left on the clock, and the rest of us will continue to find ways to improve the "industry standards" for the future workers of UPS.
Until
YOU personally are willing to take a sacrifice that you are asking the rest of the membership to take, then STFU.
UPS is a great company with profits second to none. Its workforce is also second to none, why would you want the pay & benefits to be second to anyone?
UPS should and will always be the "industry leader" as long as the employees make it that way. We all work hard and give 100% each and everyday.
Sure there are some bad apples in the ranks, but moreso in the management ranks. I dont hear you calling any of them out.
There are more jokers pretending to be managers running this operation that cost this company millions of dollars each month than there are bad employees.
These jokers have tripled the cost of delivery by making rediculous decisions. example: Here, our drivers used to fuel every 1 1/2 days. With the extended hours we now run, we fuel 3 times a week. Diesel out here costs the company $3.15 a gallon. Our new P12's will hold 21 gallons each fill, thats $66.15 times (x) 3= $198.45 each week or an increase of $132.30 each week.
This in addition to the extra overtime amounts to a ton of money. If you add the increase in fuel costs to the additional overtime, you will see that it would have been more profitable to run more cover or new full time drivers for 8 hours a day than to keep a driver out till 9pm each day and burning three tankfulls of fuel.
You want to save the company money? Start there. Go to the next shareholder meeting and suggest they lean on the company to cut excessive costs and shed themselves of the managers like Tideguy who'd make these types of mistakes believing they are managing the company.
A cover driver makes $14.50 an hour out here. An 8 hour day would cost the company $116.00 a day. Two less fuelings for me saves the company $132.30, that would pay for one day cover driving. Now, times that by 90 drivers running an average paid day of 1145 and see the fuel savings.
90 drivers times (x) $132.30= $11907.00 a week in fuel savings.
Subtract 2 hours at OT at $43.21 and that totals $86.42 each day. $86.42 times (x) 5 = $432.10
$432.10 + $132.30 = $564.40 per driver taken off the road after 730pm.
Think of the productivity that is wasted running trucks out this late. Think about the customers that this type of service affects. Think about how the corridor is delayed by trucks returning after 9PM fully loaded with the days pickups and how this delays the feeder network from pulling from the walls ontime. Our feeder drivers are actually able to "Sleep" on the clock waiting for trailers to be loaded because of these delays. they can "sleep' in the cabs for two hours on some days.
What does this do to the hubs waiting for these packages.
You want to save the company money and improve its profitability?
Then invest your time in convincing the company to operate like its the largest company in the industry.
Dont ask "US" to subsidize the stupidity of its managers by asking the membership to pay for higher profits for the shareholders.
Youre begining to sound like an old coot.
Peace
