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100% agree. Full disclosure. I was an off the street hire driver. Delivering 3 or 400 packages in 9 hours vs loading 1200 in 4 hours. No comparison. I was strained just helping wrap up before I left.Am I the only one who is shocked to see so few loaders bitching? Drivers have a hard job sure, but a driver is a loader they just have to take the packages to the person. But a loader lifts every package, every heavy ireg but of 3 drivers some more and have to have it all in there usually in 5 or 6 hours. To the loaders that don't care and leave the cars looking like messes to hell with em. But to loaders like me that make sure I give the driver the best load possible, even when his car is close to 500 pieces, good job. Not wanting props, I signed up for it and not complaining about the work. But the loaders that give a damn are like the offensive line. Without us the quarterback would be friend*cked. Also for a third of the pay in some cases of drivers.
I'm only 25, played football all through school for 7 years still strong and there isn't a part of my body that doesn't ache every night. 2am starts, earlier some days with peak. We wrap up by 8:45 and then off I'm to classes by 10am.100% agree. Full disclosure. I was an off the street hire driver. Delivering 3 or 400 packages in 9 hours vs loading 1200 in 4 hours. No comparison. I was strained just helping wrap up before I left.
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Am I the only one who is shocked to see so few loaders bitching? Drivers have a hard job sure, but a driver is a loader they just have to take the packages to the person. But a loader lifts every package, every heavy ireg but of 3 drivers some more and have to have it all in there usually in 5 or 6 hours. To the loaders that don't care and leave the cars looking like messes to hell with em. But to loaders like me that make sure I give the driver the best load possible, even when his car is close to 500 pieces, good job. Not wanting props, I signed up for it and not complaining about the work. But the loaders that give a damn are like the offensive line. Without us the quarterback would be friend*cked. Also for a third of the pay in some cases of drivers.
Are there more part-timers or full-timers at UPS?Am I the only one who is shocked to see so few loaders bitching? Drivers have a hard job sure, but a driver is a loader they just have to take the packages to the person. But a loader lifts every package, every heavy ireg but of 3 drivers some more and have to have it all in there usually in 5 or 6 hours. To the loaders that don't care and leave the cars looking like messes to hell with em. But to loaders like me that make sure I give the driver the best load possible, even when his car is close to 500 pieces, good job. Not wanting props, I signed up for it and not complaining about the work. But the loaders that give a damn are like the offensive line. Without us the quarterback would be friend*cked. Also for a third of the pay in some cases of drivers.
They are still the last to go on at our hub too, but we have to load them. One of the trucks I load poor guy is always close to 500 and has a big bulk stop to barnes and noble every day that's always 100+, and more times than not has 6 other bulk stops with 15+ pieces and they make us throw in the iregs. He delivers to a guitar center every day so he has 10 guitars amps and then during peak he has 10 or so bikes.Kind of surprising that in your preload operation that you actually attempt to load irregulars. In ours they are the last to go on and more than likely (left in the building) to squeeze more smaller deliveries on the maxed out cars.
They generally have the air drivers come in early and attempt to deliver them.
The newest beasts are 146 pound trampolines.
Kind of surprising that in your preload operation that you actually attempt to load irregulars. In ours they are the last to go on and more than likely (left in the building) to squeeze more smaller deliveries on the maxed out cars.
They generally have the air drivers come in early and attempt to deliver them.
The newest beasts are 146 pound trampolines.
its "safety, safety, safety" until it inconveniences them or costs them more money. Then when you get hurt its your fault.We shouldn't be delivering anything over 100 lbs.
I roofed for 3 years and we weren't allowed to lift more than one bundle at a time (usually 60-75 lbs).
They take up space in the truck, and create an injury risk several times over, especially when you have to take them into the clerk because the lady on the 3rd floor of an apartment wasn't home to sign for the pkg and the office refuses it due to size.
Then the clerk has to lift it back on the belt, and it gets processed all over again.
Anything over 100 should be put on a shuttle for 2 workers to go deliver together. I know that's a pipe dream, but it's the truth.
Safety safety safety safety......yeah right.
Grab a dictionary and look up sarcasm. Lol.During Christmas there are more part timers. They actually work full time, but are still considered part time. During the rest of the year the full time drivers outnumber the part time employees on the preload and local sorts, for most centers.
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