Work for UPS
Workers for the United Parcel Service have a lot to live up to. UPS’s brown trucks deliver over 15 million packages per day, reaching 6.1 million customers in over 200 countries and territories. In 2009, the company had 408,000 employees. When you work for UPS, you work for a company that has built itself up out of nothing. The company’s history stretches back to 1907, when Jim Casey (age 19) and Claude Ryan (age 18) founded the American Messenger Company in Seattle, Washington. In 1913, the company combined with Evert McCabe to form Merchants Parcel Delivery and introduced the idea of consolidated delivery (transporting packages going to different locations in the same neighborhood on one delivery vehicle). In 1919, the company expanded its service to Oakland, California and took the United Parcel Service name. UPS has continued to grow since. The company now controls several subsidiaries, including the UPS Store, UPS Capital, UPS Airlines, UPS Freight, and more. In recent years, the company has taken special steps to reduce its environmental impact. Starting in 2004, UPS started eliminating left turns from their traffic routes, helping to improve their fuel economy around the world. In recognition of this as well as the company’s alternative fuel program, the United States Environmental Protection Agency awarded UPS the Clean Air Excellence Award in 2006. In 2008, the company added 200 hybrid electric vehicles to its existing 50, and also added 300 more compressed natural gas vehicles (with a fuel efficiency 20 higher than leading gasoline vehicles) to its stable of 800. Most recently, the company has been experimenting with offering consumers the option of buying carbon offsets. Such purchases would help to neutralize the emissions of the company’s large stable of vehicles (recently recorded at 94,600).How can you get started with UPS? Visit their Careers site at https://ups.managehr.com/Home.htm to see currently available opportunities. If selected for an interview, you can schedule your perfect time in the Application Center. If you don’t see the job you want currently listed, keep checking back. New opportunities are posted all the time. There are even hourly student opportunities to help pay for college tuition.UPS is one of the best-known truck-driving jobs, but those who imagine trucking as a cross-country ordeal will be sorely disappointed. The company requires less cross-country travel than others, since it operates on an international system of drivers, with intermediate transport done via air or rail. Do you have the stuff to join “The Big Brown Machine” (the company’s nickname, based on their iconic brown trucks)? Find out by visiting their website today.