Job posting

[pearlpro]

I just received a JOB POSTING thru my email for a Van driver job as follows:

Pickup tubs of mail at main post office and deliver 6 blocks to the Distribution center.....pay is 10 dollars....daily route....

Now Gas costs 3.50 a gallon, it would take at least two gallons to drive to the post office, stop and go traffic downtown, then 6 blocks stop and go, and deliver...

Youve used 7 bucks worth of gas....so your time is worth 3.00 dollars, and van usage, Insurance etc....PAY.....So you make 60 dollars a week, but you earn 18.00 dollars...WOW Im a movin on up, to a DEELUX apartment in the skyyyy...

Is this what the expedite logistics world has to offer....

 

[Murraycroexp]

No by hats courier work. I've got plenty of those stories from my past life. But those require a beer or two. Not while in service.

 

[pearlpro]

Courier isnt that the lowpay drive what ya brung take what they give ya logistics...

 

[Murraycroexp]

Couriers put 8-10 of those mail runs together. And those 8-10 run right after and before other short junk that works together.

 

[Murraycroexp]

Or maybe I didn't understand the OP.

 

[OntarioVanMan]

Couriers put 8-10 of those mail runs together. And those 8-10 run right after and before other short junk that works together.

I used to do P/O contracting.. Put them small things together you can make money

 

[Murraycroexp]

Yes. A few of our couriers did lots of them. From and to the post office. And between buildings for multi-location companies in town.
But none of the deliveries were "designed" to run by themselves.

 

[RedBird]

I used to do P/O contracting.. Put them small things together you can make money

True, if you bid right on the contract!

 

[Murraycroexp]

Yes, it's hard to look at a delivery you NEED, to complete a period during a bunch of daily schedules, and NOT price it too low. Honesty usually worked for me. "I need your mail run to wrap up the 0930-1000 & 1630-1700 periods but I can't give it away."
More often than not it worked well for the driver.

 

[OntarioVanMan]

Yes there has to be a window of flexibility...
We used to clean out the SLB's - street letterboxes.... Every box in the country says they are Clean out at 1700...lol...

 

[BillChaffey]

Two gallons of gas to get to work. How many people get their gas paid so they can get to work?

 

[Murraycroexp]

I used to. And home. And to the movie. And.......
But that was an ops mgr job I had before this current life.

 

[layoutshooter]

Not to worry, they are going to go "on strike" for a "living wage" and all will be fine.

 

[pearlpro]

Living wage....ha thats what Ive been promised from several companys and then...real life goes WAP BAM OOPS....Im deciding what I need to make a living, then Ill propose that to someone, and then theyll tell me what they pay, and then there will be what I get....a living wage, 10 bucks to haul tubs of mail .....after the new truck is bought and paid for Ill be a little more aggressive on negotiating.....the classroom is about to close and the LIVING is about to begin...Maybe I can be like the Shipping Wars guys and string together some Alligators deliverys with some rock band gear and some tractor parts, and a few tubs of mail....and get the living wage.

 

[OntarioVanMan]

because one is an owner operator...is there an expectation of big money?.....making 10 bucks an hour AFTER all expenses....some would call good and to be home every night and weekends....

 

[Murraycroexp]

Many couriers did in my past life.

 

[OntarioVanMan]

Many couriers did in my past life.

up in the northland we had like a $15 to $20 a hr number floating in our heads...AFTER expenses...$10 meant picked up another run and work a bit quicker.....LOL