Your boyfriend most likely drives a small car and just delivers mail and small parcels. The health insurance is great though and covered through your union dues.Īlso. With that said, it could easily take your boyfriend 10 years to reach that top rate. It depends on the hub you are at but I had to wait 6 years before I started driving and you start at a reduced rate and need to go through a pay progression. Well, the problem with UPS is that you aren’t a driver from the start. It's hard to understand what they think they are accomplishing. This grows the economy.Īmazon is incredibly short-sighted.
CHICAGO UPS DRIVER STARTING PAY DRIVERS
Meanwhile, UPS drivers are buying houses and taking vacations. People put off health care treatment, they don't invest in things like homes, new cars, etc. The long term cost of this is much greater than the short-term savings. Amazon is paying far less than its costs to have a healthy life in the US. The reality is, UPS drivers aren't 'overpaid' - they are paid a survival wage. The crash was almost certainly caused by Amazon's corner cutting. Did you notice how all packages now contain a lithium battery warning? That came about two months after the plane crashed in Houston.
The company knows that it takes a certain breed of human to wake up and make the choice to do this job everyday. It may sound like I'm complaining but I'm not. I won't even get into my Back and Hip injuries suffered. The worst part is the mandatory overtime they force us to do, which means less time with the Family. Even the mid range packages 30 to 50 pounders like dog food, water cases that drown our trucks everyday takes a toll. We also Deliver multiple packages that can way up to 70+ pounds called irregs like furniture pieces, gym weights. I actually work less during peak season because they give us a helper for a month because they add on 60+ more stops which pushes the total stops per day over 250 during peak. Consistently 160 to 200+ stops every day not just during peak season.
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