UPS Driving Gone Bad

UPS Driving Gone Bad

Introduction 

“A smart person learns from his own mistakes. A wise person learns from the mistakes of others.”
 As far as a list of high-paying jobs without a college degree is concerned, working as a driver for UPS is a job that certainly tops the list. The pay is high & it offers good benefits like health insurance and pension. UPS drivers make an average of $100,000 a year with other bonuses and perks that many people hope and even pray for, little wonder the position is highly sought-after and receives a lot of applications both in-house and from members of the general public.
 But just beside all the perks and benefits is a large array of problems that are stacked against a UPS driver. Apart from the obvious danger of being on the road for almost the entire duration of your work with other drivers, there are lots of risks inherent in the delivery of the parcel in itself. From being bitten by dogs when making deliveries to getting hit by a car and even sexual harassment or trespassing claims there is a long list of what can possibly go wrong. While some of these situations might happen without a fault on the part of the driver, many of them can actually be avoided by a wise driver.
What you're about to read are 21 real scenarios that you must avoid whenever you are in your brown uniform making deliveries and the lessons you can learn from them. The cost of these lessons to the affected parties caused lose of money, incalculable emotional stress and in some cases- litigation. However, you'll obtain the enormous benefits of the lessons they learned without the costs.
Therefore, what you will gain from this book is infinitely more valuable than the price you paid for reading it. You're about to gather lifelong, extremely valuable UPS driving and delivery knowledge that have taken others a lifetime to learn. This is what NOT to do if you plan to be or already are a UPS driver.
However, the intent is not to scare you away either. Although some of the losses you will discover are absolutely devastating, hopefully, you will not become so frightened by them that you run from this lucrative job. But instead, the goal is for you to gain new insight on how to make wise driving and delivery decisions in the future.
The collection of stories in this book is the most extensive research project on UPS driving and delivery failures ever. First, all of my own driving and delivery “war” stories were collected from the thousands of work hours I have personally been a part of, as well as all the people I have interacted with over the years who have shared with me details of situations that have not turned out the way they planned. Second, I reached out to most seasoned drivers across North America that I personally knew and gathered stories from them. Third, with my #1 book, How To Be A UPS Driver: Discover how you can become a UPS driver and earn $100,000 a year, I asked my audience to share the details of their worst experiences.
After two years of assembling a gigantic archive of stories, I then poured through them all and chose the ones that had the greatest losses and the biggest lessons. Furthermore, there were plenty of stories that had the same lesson, but different circumstances with different people in different places. In such situations, a definitive story that best encapsulated the lesson was chosen. In the end, this collection represents the best of the best stories from the most ambitious quest for UPS driving and delivery horror stories ever accomplished.
Disclaimer: Although the following are based on true stories, to protect the anonymity of the parties involved, names and even some minor details have been changed.

1- Cross from the Rear

Police car sirens wailed in the distance. Jane has counted three police cars already. A fourth vehicle zoomed past her, on one side of it was written: County Coroner. Two hundred meters outside the store where she stood, Jane could see the vehicles converge. Policemen had started installing barricades on the street. “What's happening?” Jane thought out loud, “And why are the police vehicles stopping in front of my house?” Visibly afraid and with worried looks, Jane ran down the street to get more information about what's appearing to be an incident where a life has been lost-in in front of her house. 

As she approached the scene, yellow tapes barricade the scene and from a distance, she could see the body of a uniformed man as he lay lifeless on the floor. Seeing her kids rush towards her, she didn't know what to feel. A part of her felt thankful that what she had feared hadn't happened as she had left the two children playing in the front lawn before dashing down the street to get the ketchup she will be needing for lunch.

Another part of her felt pain for the life of the man whose package car still stood across the road from her house. 

As she moved to get a closer look at the scene, a policeman stopped her in her path and said, “Ma'am this is a crime scene, you cannot go any further.” She responded, “That is my house across the scene and your barricade is preventing me from going in.

” The policeman looked at her more carefully this time and asked, “Are you, Miss. James Carson? “Yes. I am.” She answered. The policeman continued, “That's great, we need to ask you some questions.” “It is alright, but you need to first tell me what happened here.” She said quietly. “No problem ma'am. You see that body is packed in a body bag, he was an employee of the delivery service whose car is parked across the street from your house. According to our investigation, he had come to make a delivery for you. From an eyewitness account, that man had gotten off the vehicle to deliver two packages to a home on the same side of the road on which the package car was parked. After the delivery, he walked back to the vehicle, retrieved the third package and attempted to cross to this side of the road where we are standing so he could deliver your package. Before he could do that, a drunk driver ran him over. We have reported that the man crossed from the front of his package car which did not make it easy for the oncoming vehicle to see him on time and apply his brakes quickly enough to prevent the unfortunate incident.” 

Powerful Learning Lessons 

1-NEVER CROSS THE STREET FROM THE FRONT OF YOUR VEHICLE!! But If you must walk a minimum of 10 feet ahead of the package car before doing so. This makes it easier for you to see oncoming traffic and for them to see you. 

2-Patience is very important when crossing the road. It is better to spend some time waiting for the road to be safe enough to cross than risking your life rushing into traffic to improve your delivery time. If you get hit by a vehicle, your delivery time won't matter anymore. 

3-The rule of crossing which you have been taught in your growing up years still matters. Before you cross the road, look left, look right, then look left again.