Not quite true | Sunday Rant | Trucking Answers
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- Опубликовано: 12 авг 2023
- In the Sunday Rant I deal with the so-called trucking news media and how they are hyping the UPS contract. The media is saying drivers will be making $170000 a year. This is only partially true. It is that much when you include all of the benefits. These benefits increase the pay of any company driver. This is unfortunate as some people may see that and go into trucking only to be surprised at what the actual pay really is. I discuss this on my Trucking Answers Podcast in longer form. You can't trust the media to do any actual investigation any more.
Mark@TruckingAnswersNation.com
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right.
Here I am.
Stuck trucking with you.
If done right, the roach coach could be a good money maker.
Too many permits you just can’t pull in a factory or job site flip up your doors & start barking hot sandwiches hot coffee and cold drinks do you know who runs most of that I will tell ya it sure ain’t the Boy Scouts LOL good luck
One lie begets another, just to get them to sign on the line. Exactly right, click bait bait.
I was at Wabash a couple weeks ago. Those turds won't even let you go get a new trailer anymore. You sit in a staging area and wait till some yard dog finishes his 14th cigarette in a row, then eventually brings it to you.
That's a shock! I was there twice and got our trailers myself. Now, you have to wait for the jockey to bring it to the staging area for you? to manyn knuckleheads or "New union/company policy," I guess.
Check the transmission on that roach coach, just say'n.
Roach Coaches have some of the best food
Only if you run under your own authority!!!!!
UPS would have to prove to me their drivers are earning $170k a year WITH benefits. I'm seriously doubting that mess.
For Real!
Oh and by the way. Some drivers could most likely make more money with that roach coach then they ever will driving a truck with most of the bigger carriers.
I talked to a team ups turpike triple / California doubles driver who been there 20 yrs and he wasnt makin no 170k lol.
Buster Brown be fudging the numbers.😂
Most drivers will make 38 to 50 thousand a year before taxes. The industry is such a rip-off.
I believe that 170k is at the end of the 5th year in the new contract. So like 2028 or 2029 maybe
Currently UPS full time benefits cost the company around $750/week per employee. That's $39,000/year. The $170k number is based on the top rate in 2028 including benefits. Any tech bros that decide they want to come to UPS be advised that you may have to start part time for at least 6 months and possibly years depending on location and that is $21/hr under the new deal with 17.5 hours guaranteed per week. Full time drivers start at $23/hr. You will not come close to $100k until you have 5 years in. The grass isn't always greener on the other side of the fence.
Advertising to the lowest common denominator has always been, and will continue to be the way most companies go. Why? People don’t do their homework! They take everything at face value. The news said it, so therefore it must be true! 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Absolutely Mark! The parking lot maintenance, recruiting salary and 20 years of social security are in that 170 K LOf,'nL..
Same crap different pile!
heres the trucking facts pirates,theives and schmucks........um rookies since 80s
Trucking is not like other trades it’s so political, more like 60k reality for never being home!!! Get in another trade to make well over 6 figs plus!
Right
We’re only interested in paid income. Give us that number.
170 thousand dollars sounds pretty great to people over in Eastern Europe and in Somalia..
So does $170 😂
@@chris76-01 I'm sure some would drive their Volvo for 170 a week from those places
I typically tend to discount assertions like the hundred and $170,000 pay scale just as he mentioned here, they're probably including benefits packages Etc but also overtime, and perhaps this person's at the top of the pay scale. That's not quite often you see jobs advertised, especially governmental jobs where the pay range is from $4120 to $5250, so you think well I'm experienced, I have special training in that area, I could start at the $5250. Nope, you're the new kid on the Block, you're starting at the Bottom Rung $4120, after 20 years of service if not promoted, you would work your way to the $5,250.
First of all who thinks of UPS as strictly trucking? It's not a "trucking" company. A logistics package delivery company.
They use all modes of transportation. But there's always some type of truck involved in the process.
@@chris76-01 I hear ya, yes they employ a thousands of truck drivers, and have thousands of trucks but they are not strictly a trucking company like a JB Hunt or Swift transportation.
Await a minute, I thought that in UPS you have to climb the ladder as a step-Van home/office delivery driver before you can become a tractor trailer driver? And there is a long waiting list, since the old timers will not retire. Am I incorrect here, please let me know! Thanks.
But mark…. Western xpress just told me that’s what they pay rookie drivers
Stale sandwiches hard sweet rolls bitter coffee and a bunch of other out of date hot food that will get you a trip to the E.R.
That truck will make a great Wiener Slinger!
Old sandwiches? I'll only take it if it is set up for roller weiners. Only the best for the drivers! The tech bros wouldn't last driving because there isn't an app to drive the truck.
It’s mis information $170,000 ??? You will never make that kind of money if you stayed there for 20 years NO WAY dream on a few years back their slogan was what Brown can do for you it should be what Brown ain’t going to do for you it’s a miserable job whatever your position is that place is like the military if you can go a whole year without any write ups or suspensions than you are the super driver / warehouse person of the century
Brown because it's 💩 😂
Yes, heard UPS is like the military, well, been there, done that, I don’t need another form of military, and i wouldn’t last a week there, for real.
170, no way