Updated, updated VOSA update

Thank you Josh

Here are a few areas that you can look at.

A high level of Tachograph infringements as shown on the Tachomaster reports.

These levels remained constant throughout the year. No corrective action/re-training taken. It was more important for Supervisors to be on road delivering than for drivers to be compliant.

UPS’s answer in Dewsbury was to destroy the infringement letters. If VOSA had followed up promptly, this would have been seen, or rather not seen, as the infringement letters wouldn’t have been found.

It would have taken 1 day for these infringement letters to be brought up to date, other than drivers absent. No time was given to either Supervisor to deal with these issues. It was more important to be on road delivering.

No time was allocated to either supervisor to complete the drivers’ annual training, again being on road training.

There are false declarations of drivers’ hours.

There is the ignorance of drivers working through their dinner/tacho breaks. The UPS answer was that drivers chose to do this. Why wasn’t action taken to stop this?

I was given a Tachograph project when working my notice. Why was I only off road for 6 days out of 44 to complete this? A plan for me to fail? I did complete a set of procedures, but was not allowed to roll it out through the Company.

Having spoken to a number of UPS drivers from Dewsbury, Leeds and Manchester in the last year, it would appear that these practices are still continuing.

There are copies of many documents on my blog, and these are isolated cases. I have many more here at home

http://mikeyvtheworld.blogspot.co.uk/

Regards

Mike

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From: Josh.Geldard@vosa.gov.uk [mailto:Josh.Geldard@vosa.gov.uk]
Sent: 22 November 2012 15:02
To: mikewhitehead1@aol.com
Subject: RE: UPS Infringements

Thank you for your email,

I will now forward this on to who I think can help you.

Sorry for the delay in this I will try and get this sorted now.

Regards

Josh

UPS v. Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney said

We look to our pastors and priests and rabbis and counselors of all kinds to testify of the enduring principles upon which our society is built: honesty, charity, integrity and family.And I ran for office because I’m concerned about America. This election is over, but our principles endure. I believe that the principles upon which this nation was founded are the only sure guide to a resurgent economy and to renewed greatness.Like so many of you, Paul and I have left everything on the field. We have given our all to this campaign.

Sound similar to UPS policies?

Now why would Mitt be concerned about America?
Same reason I'm concerned about UPS?

A lack of honesty and integrity? 

UPS Accidents

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "How safe are Britain's roads? update":

UPS TREAT STAFF LIKE CRETINS !! Very interesting,sad how a blue chip company can treat their employees like cretins (which they certainly are not) a member of my family was recently sacked, due to the three strike accident rule!! through no fault of his own. We have to remember a 7.5ton vehicle in country lanes would cause any problems/obstruction, no matter how well he was trained, he pleaded his case for a smaller van, but it fell on deaf ears with the management and nothing ever came of it, except he was sacked on the three strike accident rule!! Pathetic. He had been with the company for four years. Interesting though,how they have bought out TNT and the drivers there are on lower wages FACT ! (as my company receives parcels via TNT and I have asked the drivers about there terms and conditions of employment incl wages, cheeky I know, but hey, dont ask and you never get to know). I wait to see how many other good UPS drivers are sacked in favour of this buy out to SAVE UPS SALARY BILL. In my opinion this is why they are getting rid of the decent staff and especially the ones they would have to pay severance pay too in a redundancy situation !!!



Posted by Anonymous to Mikey v. The World at 22 November 2012 11:54

I'm pretty sure that this was deemed an unfair policy. A driver at Gateshead (I think) challenged this and was re-instated. When we asked for more information and clarity, surprisingly (not) we never received any feedback.

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Report ID: iwf_17cd3fc0b5                       HISTORY:The most recent activity is listed at the top of the box below. Organization - ********************************************************** UPS wishes to thank you for contacting the UPS Helpline. As highlighted in the HelpLine menu, UPS is prohibited by law in certain jurisdictions from receiving information outside of accounting, financial or audit matters, suspected bribery of public officials or facts that may affect the vital interests of UPS. Therefore you need to contact your local management or Human Resources for further assistance with your concern.

Report ID:	iwf_17cd3fc0b5

 HISTORY:The most recent activity is listed at the top of the box below.

Individual Reporting -  ********************************************************** As per your comments. Local Management and Human Resources cannot be trusted to investigate with honesty and integrity. Randy Grimes and Christopher Robbins have been previous contacts to my complaints, they too have failed to follow-up correctly Individual Reporting -  ********************************************************** E-mail address mikewhitehead1@aol.com Individual Reporting -  ********************************************************** As yet I have not received any information as a follow-up to the issues of Integrity that I have raised. I have submitted many instances of a lack of integrity within the Company. Do you intend to follow this up or continue to ignore the issues that continue within the Company

There was no response from (no) Compliance & (no) Ethics Dept. when I raised this. There has been no answer to my chasers either. That includes through Randy Grimes and Christopher Robbins 

Updated VOSA update

Let's see where this goes,

Josh.Geldard@vosa.gov.uk; on behalf of; self.service@vosa.gov.uk

Thank you for your email,

Please can you inform me of when this was sent and I will try and locate where this was sent on to and chase a response up.
Regards
Josh Self Service

What do we think boys and girls? 

How safe are Britain's roads? update

Anonymous wrote about desperation, continuing the same quote that I heard, with exactly the same phrases on desperation, it continued with "Economic corruption a the top."

I have been told to get over it. Why? Because it happen some time ago? To stop exposing UPS Managers for the fraudsters that they are?

Jimmy Savile is dead. Has been for over a year. Get over it.
Jimmy Savile committed most of his crimes years ago. Get over it.

If Jimmy Savile, the UPS driver, ran over and killed a member of your family would you get over it?

If Jimmy Savile, the UPS driver, was driving illegally, would you get over it? You have seen the statistics on Tachograph infringements, it's not just an odd occurrence.

Did anyone watch "How safe are Britain's roads"? What did you conclude from the programme?

Road deaths are rising.

Every accident has a cause. In UPS speak the driver is always guilty until proven innocent. If you've read about disciplinaries on here, you'll know that disciplinaries can be corrupt. I see that there have been many hits on my clip of Scott Fowler saying drivers should stop out on road until 22.00 if necessary. That's the important bit in the meeting that didn't feature in Paul Mooney's notes of the meeting. Strangely, it was in my notes. Not in the notes, didn't happen.

What was the cause of most accidents?
A lack of concentration.

What could cause a lack of concentration?
Driver fatigue - long hours, no breaks. insufficient breaks.
Driver distraction - thinking about how he'd been bullied into taking extra stops out. How he will have to stay out until 22.00 if necessary.

Now do you understand why I keep raising these issues?

As a supervisor I trained drivers in space and visibility habits, this was over-ridden by poor despatch. Drivers have to cut corners or come back late. Which option do you think a driver will take? 

All this to increase productivity to line the pockets of Scott Davis, not the drivers.

Packages left in warehouse

Another scam for ripping of customers, falsely scanning packages that get left in the warehouse, or one of the  reasons why Centreboards go out on road. Can't have customers deliveries affecting our productivity can we?

Welcome number 62

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In the post today

Do I need to comment?

Maybe a tiny titter

Did somebody say incompetent?

UPS Helpline

https://www.tnwgrc.com/UPS/


Some UPS employees might want to think again before reporting anything to the helpline. It's a complete waste of time.

The helpline is a token gesture

& a comment from;

Nick Vincent

UPS is a terrible corporation and always will be the management is corrupt and unions, especially Hoffa, are a JOKE!