Summit Racing/UPS

[Brian VT]

I ordered a new starter @ 10pm last night from Summit Racing in Ohio.
Tracking says label created at 12:00am last night. Package picked up by UPS at 1:30am and left OH at 4:30am.
Arrived in Buffalo, NY at 8:30am and left at 8:40am. I'll have it here in Maine tomorrow.
How they do that? I guess both companies must be working 3 shifts?

 

[Nero]

From someone who used to work as a subcontractor of ups, yes they do. The shipping network is actually pretty interesting how smoothly it runs.

 

[Clb]

Godspeed

 

[Brian VT]

From someone who used to work as a subcontractor of ups, yes they do. The shipping network is actually pretty interesting how smoothly it runs.

I'm more surprised that Summit was able to get the package out the door at that hour.

 

[Jesus Freak]

As a FedEx ground driver, I've delivered stuff and the customer blankly stare at me and say, "I ordered this at 8pm last night"..... To which I respond, "I drove REALLY fast to get here"......... courtesy laugh...... and I'm on my way. But yeah, logistics is pretty amazing.......... sometimes.......

 

[Booyah45828]

I can get stuff from summit and jegs overnight typically. I had a buddy in college who's mom was a packer for jegs near columbus. IIRC he said they had 2 10 hour shifts she could choose from, not sure on the exact hours, but that leaves little time for someone not pulling/packing stuff during a day. Most major shippers have their own trailer that goes direct to the sorting hub from the warehouse, skipping any kind of center that you or I would have to go through.

 

[Rdnck84_03]

Most things I order are delivered fairly fast to my area, now to the correct location always seems to be the problem.

We have 2 different houses on our property with separate driveways, you never know which one they leave it at. And there are usually 5-7 vehicles out front at any given time. It is always a scavenger hunt trying to figure out where it's at.

Then add to that about 1/4 of the time they get deliver to my boss's house about a mile away.

James

 

[u2slow]

Takes 3-4 weeks to get Summit stuff via FedEx. I think thats just how it is for us western canadians.

 

[Clb]

Fuckkkkkkk
Logistics today
That is all

 

[Cubey]

FedEx has gotten horrible. They lie about delivery dates and cite "weather delay" on a cloudless, 75 degree sunny day.

Still not as bad as OnTrac or DHL though. OnTrac being THE worst.

 

[KansasIDI]

Our local FedEx drivers are good at smashing packages… never gotten a box from them that wasn’t battered. UPS guys seem gentler, drive like demons though.

 

[Jesus Freak]

FedEx has gotten horrible. They lie about delivery dates and cite "weather delay" on a cloudless, 75 degree sunny day.

Still not as bad as OnTrac or DHL though. OnTrac being THE worst.

Of course they weather code it on a day like that, the driver probably went to the beach or on a hike since it was so nice and just didn't have time to deliver everybody's stuff.

 

[Jesus Freak]

Our local FedEx drivers are good at smashing packages… never gotten a box from them that wasn’t battered. UPS guys seem gentler, drive like demons though.

The way my truck is stacked, everything usually gets a good walking on and climbing over. As far as UPS, since they're a union (read that leftist cult) they're so micromanaged that they have ty drive like really safe nuts. Watch a UPS driver in a neighborhood, they're like robots....... well paid(read that over paid)robots, but robots none the less.

 

[Brian VT]

I had a friend that was UPS and they had him do repetitive drills for taking the key out of the ignition, putting it in his pocket and getting out of the truck, taking it back out of his pocket and getting back in the truck and restarting the engine. I imagine they have many other techniques that they demand be followed to shave seconds from their labor costs.

 

[Jesus Freak]

I had a friend that was UPS and they had him do repetitive drills for taking the key out of the ignition, putting it in his pocket and getting out of the truck, taking it back out of his pocket and getting back in the truck and restarting the engine. I imagine they have many other techniques that they demand be followed to shave seconds from their labor costs.

It's crazy, I was almost a driver for them. I decided I didn't want to marry a union (read that leftist cult) and their schedule is just too much for a family man like me. In proverbs it says "better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox and contention", in a modern vernacular it might say "it's better to he broke and happy than loaded and unhappy".