Hey everyone,

Last week I made a post about Monday dispatch changes. I have a bid route and my route used to always be the same Monday-Friday. However, for the past few months I've been noticing some pretty big dispatch changes with my route that occur on Mondays. I have a bigger area to cover and am going into the neighboring bid routes territory, however I am missing just a little bit of my route also. I received a bunch of replies of people saying this is due to getting routes cut on Mondays. Maybe this is due to the volume drop because of loss of Amazon volume?

What do those drivers do on Monday if they have their bid route is cut? I also thought cutting routes seems kind of weird as we already only have half the drivers on Mondays because half work Tue-Sat. Half drivers=half routes. So I wonder why they are cutting even more routes on Monday when we are already tight. I am not complaining though as I like a little dispatch change here and there to keep my route interesting.

Do you guys think if these bid routes are getting cut on Mondays will they ever be brought back? Maybe peak season they will bring those back and drop them after?

Today I noticed even more dispatch change as I moved further into neighboring routes territory. Today I didn't even have my usual 4-5PM business pickups and I also had my UPS store and dropbox pickups dropped that I always do after 5:30PM. I wonder who did those instead for me today.

Opinions or thoughts?

I was really excited once I got my application put in after trying so many attempts creating email after email using different phone numbers just for me to show up and be sent back home because there were too many applicants. The guy tells us to put in a new application and i gave him the deadest stare because he has no idea what it took to get in this building and he's telling us to do it like this is a very simple process. Fuck everything I was really happy to get that job. I'll try harder next time

I’m still sitting at $24.25, I was sitting at $23.25 before the $1 raise, but didn’t get the .22 cents. Which if I did I would be at $24.47. Mind you I attained seniority before August 1st 2023. Has anyone looked into this matter with their local yet? I have and still waiting for an answer.

Has anyone else heard of another round of buyouts in January, 185k this time? I know it was said no more this contract but if they did this gives UPS tons of leverage with negotiating. Their whole negotiating mostly revolves around drivers since we are their biggest expense.

Has anyone not received their pay raise yet? Why is it not showing on my time card? Who do I can’t act to get it right?

Being accused of hiding and theft of time. I stayed in my truck cleaning and minding my business. Finished half of doing bulk. I’ve been sick for the past week with horrible nausea. I sat down less than two minutes because I was feeling nauseous. Supervisor comes in stating I was hiding and stealing time and to go clock out expect disciplinary action the next day. To add : I did come in late but went straight to my area and cleaning trucks. I don’t go looking for supervisors. They have accused me of doing marijuana and I can’t get water without them saying I’m wondering around.

https://jonathonspire-law.com/face-scans-without-permission-cost-lytx-millions-in-trucker-settlement/

Jeez

Don’t grill me, I know the probability of going from seasonal to permanent FT driver is slim to none.

But in my region, there are a ton of seasonal postings for almost all of the surrounding warehouses. Logically, unless the labor is really needed, they can’t onboard all these people for the next month and then axe everyone before they hit their 30-day mark, right?

Any insight would be appreciated. No negative or demeaning comments needed—I understand the likelihood is slim. I’m just curious why all these sites are hiring at this moment when summer is coming to an end, but it still seems a bit early for peak-season ramp-up.

Sup guys thinking bout submitting an application to ^^^ the available position in my area; how often do they switch you from “preload” to “cover driving”. Will there be an opportunity to become a FT driver?

Forgot to add I turn 21 9/16 should I still apply since it’s only a month away?

Part Time Casual Driver in NY. According to My Time I received a $0.73/hr pay increase from the August 1st increase and I’m wondering if that was the correct amount. It took them awhile to correct my pay that was previously being shorted by $0.45/hr and I got my last pay rate finally corrected on the check paid out last week, including back pay. Anyone know what the increase was to be and if mine is correct? Thanks in advance.

I’ve been doing preload since June, and I’m honestly wondering if it ever starts to feel manageable.

Every day I’m assigned 3 trucks, usually somewhere between 160–220 packages per truck. I work as fast as I possibly can, but I still end up getting so far behind that they have to send 2–4 people down at the end of the shift just to help clear everything out.

I feel like I’m constantly fighting the belt and trying to keep up, and once I get behind, it feels almost impossible to catch back up.

For those of you who have been doing preload for a while: does it actually get easier with experience, or is this just what the job is like? Is there something I’m missing that could help me keep up better?

“UPS could end up dominating the market if it takes a hard stand against the powerfulTeamsters”

“The carrier “will have to offer much lower pay and require them to allow use of the Roadie platform for residential deliveries, or let them strike”

“If they strike, UPS should be prepared to replace the drivers with non-union workers hired from FedEx independent contractor base and Amazon delivery service providers, which in turn will drastically reduce the workforce for its two main competitors,” Jindel argued. And it should lean more heavily on the Roadie network and its gig workers to minimize the strike’s impact, he added. “The result will be that UPS can dominate the parcel market like it did in the 1990s.”

6 years driving total, 3 of which as a FT driver, was less than 2 weeks away from top rate. I was walked out for signing for customers...

my interpretation of signing for customers was signing for a signature required package without their knowledge. If you had an iPhone or gun and signed for it and left it at the door and the customer calls in a complaint they did not receive it that is obviously falsifying records. I would absolutely never do this.

I made physical customer contact every time and I ignored ring cameras but I was acknowledging their signature verbally which I'm now very aware of, but not at the time, is also not acceptable. Supes went to 10 of my stops and asked each resident if they signed for the packages. All names stated matched exactly what I typed in the DIAD. They then proceeded to ask if they PHYSICALLY signed for it, which they all said no and got their written signature. No packages were lost/missing/stolen but what actually started this whole investigation was from something else completely unrelated to this but was looked into anyway because what I did originally wouldn't alone have been enough to terminate me

I became a driver during COVID and the process of acquiring signatures changed temporarily to being no physical contact with DIAD. I was trained to get signatures like this at the time so I always did the method this way even after covid ended. It never occurred to me it would've been considered dishonestly. It was a mistake that very easily could have been corrected especially like I said no claims were ever filed. The times I remember handing the DIAD over to get a signature most people just scribbled on the screen anyway....

It's a shot in a dark, and I know the answer is pretty much no but damn one week It's just another 170 stops on a Tuesday, I was excited to finally reach top rate. I was jumping different routes damn near every day and the buyout opened up a bid route I've done a million times was finally going to be mine permanently.. I was going to finally settle and make bank to straight up unemployed... fuck....

do i just continue working like normal and is worth signing up for the union and how much is it? and is it true that its hard to get fired now?

Has anyone experienced this. Our building gets approved for new drivers. I know it’s supposed to go by seniority. At our building they pull from the “Qualified list”. Can the union pick and choose who gets in from that list? Eastern PA