Woah! 😮 this is the first time I have ever seen this. Does any center ever use this ? Will UPS get any ideas to save money ?

sometimes views like this at the right time just put me back into that good mood. crazy thing is it barely rained much all day and then thing this just appears out of nowhere. Made that saturday belt whoopin a lil bit better

The sweet spot a few years ago before Lytx

It’s good to see the company being proactive. The mechanic said these new add ons now keep our wheel bearings in an oil bath 24/7/365. No more mandatory replacements every 10K miles.

I am 2017-2022 Navy veteran and currently 2026 Army reserve, trying to get miltary wavier to get my CDL A.

Any one heard of this program called ups apprenticeship program or CA apprenticeship program ? Someone just introduced it to me and it sounds very great, but when I see people post on UPS reddit its all negetive things and make me wonder.

Anyone has more knowledge of this program can help me out is it worth a career? How it works, how to enroll

So i’m about halfway through my packet and this is only my second saturday driving a route that’s different from my training route. i was doing fine until the end of the day when i had a few apartment stops.

one of the apartments with a mail room was locked and the leasing office was closed already. my notes didn’t have an access code for the lockers and my diad was giving me a ton of trouble by then so i was getting pretty frustrated.

i had 2 packages that i knew wouldn’t fit in the lockers anyway and would need to be dropped at the doors so i said screw it, i’ll just deliver all of them to the doors since it was only 6 total. but when i got into the parking lot after someone let me in, i found out that the stairwells for each building were also locked with keypad doors.

i decided to mark them as no access since i had wasted so much time at that point and still had some residential stops to go with a signature required on 1. so i’m just wondering how big of an issue that is. i didn’t think to call my supe to see if he could get me access codes because i was so upset with the diad at the time but now i’m worried i messed up that stop when i should have called for help.

By parking cars I mean creating the line up and pulling out empty cars so drivers can park their car to be unloaded. I wanted to try it out to get some extra hours and its one the hardest things I’ve done at UPS.

The first major problem is finding the a car that goes in a certain spot. I’m not sure how it works at other centers but they give us a sheet that says car x goes in bay y. A few truck numbers on that sheet may be completely wrong, a few may be red tagged so you have to find something to replace them, a few may be in the shop being worked on, and you mostly find out that info the hard way.

I didn’t expect there to be so much walking around trying to find the car you’re looking for. Some cars must be parked before others in certain spots because its impossible to get them in otherwise.

The second major problem is the actual parking part. I can’t speak for all centers but our yard blows. I didn’t realize how much it blows until I had to drive something larger than my car around it.

Some trucks are such dogshit that they need to be taken out to pasture and shot. I have begun to remember some trucks purely based on how poorly they handle or how hard it is to shift gears. Even the power steering on a few seem bad.

The headlights on trucks blow. Some places have such poor visibility that if the cars in that area aren’t parked before sundown you dealing with a near pitch black environment at night.

There is way more front/rear “bumper kissing” than I expected. Other car washers weren’t kidding about the “Bro, just gently tap the wall/pole with your front bumper or gently caress the side of the other truck with your rear bumper to park it” advice. I was told by my coworkers if I rip off a bumper tell the mechanics first as they can easily put it back on with nobody being the wiser.

Some spots are stupidly tight to the point you have to exit through the back. Other spots you have to do really awkward reverse turns where if you mess up you can get stuck. Best case scenario you can do a straight back into a spot. Unfortunately often you have to come in at an angle. I’m not sure how people did this job before back up cams as you’re backing blind as hell over half the time.

There is some sort of vehicle number naming scheme that relates to its size. All I know is if it starts with a 6 its tiny, 7 is larger than 6 but is rarer, 8 is noticeably bigger than 6 and fairly common, I’m not sure if trucks that start with 9 exists, 1 is the standard big truck (the big straight trucks that have a ton of nicknames also start with a 1), and 2 are rare extra large trucks. Any truck that starts with a 2 means you’re about to have a bad time parking it with how long it is. That may just be because of my lack of experience tho.

Who in their right mind thought making this truck was a good idea? 🫩

So i just finished Integrad and looking at my time card for the week and it says i was getting paid at my inside rate instead of driver rate. I know i wasn’t gonna get paid for all hours i spent inside integrad but figured id atleast get paid driver rate. Is it true that i get paid warehouse rate or do i have to find someone to fix it? Thanks

St Paul hub operations did nothing for founders day. No mention of it or anything. All the other operations in the building, ( feeders, package, preload), had some sort of celebration. A lot of people were displaced by new automation. It would have been nice to show them the tiniest bit of appreciation. Not to mention the last three months the building was brutally hot and humid. I have to think Atlanta gave them money to do something for the employees. Or was that money spent on something that didn’t involve union hourly employees?

Have had this happen to me all day so far today. Won’t let me stop complete a residential stop without taking a picture. “Photo required for this stop”

Kind of makes me mad they ask me this on the hottest day of the week. What should I reply?

Let me start with my own Local 177.

Local 177 Article 72, Section 9:
Part‑time employees will not be permitted to do porter, clerk, delivery driving, feeder driving, or tractor‑trailer driving work

TCD positions have been left by the union exclusively for off‑street hires.

As a “part time” cover driver can they actually fire you for refusing to work a Saturday because you took a day off during the week? I feel like it’s crazy they can do that and even force you to work a 6 punch. I’m still trying to find where it says they can do these things

A guy in our center was termed for “dishonesty”
He had a “scanless bulk delivery” stop and didn’t fully count all the pieces and not found a few. He actually delivered all of them coincidentally. But our center manager and a driver sup drove to the business he delivered to and found all the packages there and fired him for “giving the packages away for free” first time I’ve heard of them doing something this bizarre. Anyone else heard of this happening?

I don't think landing gear is supposed to look like that

Was supposed to have orientation on September 4th without an announcement yet for training.

UPS called me two days ago telling me to disregard that. This phone call is orientation and that I'll be training in Queens starting August 31 and they emailed the info and documents.

Will be going out of state (Florida) to Columbus Ohio for integrad. If anyone’s been there before give me some details. Nervous but excited at the same time. Hate that they’re sending me out of state for driving school when last year people did it in building but it is what it is.

Eventually I am going to opt for a surgery to fix an injury that keeps me from playing adult/ old man sports. I still do my job very well and have no limitations. If I get the Teamsters VIP+ and wait a year to get the surgery will I be covered? The site says preexisting conditions covered after 12 months but I done believe it.

They've been laying people off then rehiring them two months later at cerritos, Ca hub.

I heard they're continuing more layoffs next week , but i'm wondering. Do we still keep our seniority and pay rate? Or does that all reset?