Archive for the ‘Safety’ Category
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Daniel Peterson of Redwood will collect more than a quarter of a million dollars in damages after the company and Peterson reached a settlement in a lawsuit he filed last year. United Package Smashers previously wrote about the incident here. Peterson, a UPS Mechanic, was fired after he put unsafe ...
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
UPS has been connected to drug crimes alot lately. Just a few days ago we ran a story about how UPS had found some parcels containing pot. Now comes a report that 14-year veteran UPS driver delivered more than just parcels: he also transported the occasional illicit substance. Police say ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Documents recently filed show UPS is taking steps to settle a lawsuit filed by a mechanic for the company who complained about unsafe UPS trucks. The mechanic, having found cracked or rusted frames on at least four UPS trucks, removed inspection certifications for those trucks and was fired four days ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
UPS Driver Paul Warren, 43, of Rockport, Maine filed a lawsuit against UPS after he was diagnosed with epilepsy. He won a jury verdict against the company back in 2007, now the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has upheld the riling. The crux of the issue involves ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is investigating a near miss at Miami International Airport (MIA) involving a UPS 757 and a small turbo prop. The planes came within 4,000 feet of each other in what could have been a head on collision. The news media may be guilty of sensationalizing ...
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
If your package stopped showing tracking activity in Illinois, you might want to call UPS and ask them if they'll at least return the ashes. A trailer full of parcels caught on fire while parked at a UPS terminal in Hodkins, IL, according to a news report. There is no ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
Five people shipped 330 pounds of pot and the occasional cocaine shipment through United Parcel Service using drop off n' ship stores, according to a report. Apparently, UPS detected the shipment and contacted the police, who setup various raids and stings to capture the five suspects, only to have them ...
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
A federal appeals court ordered a San Francisco judge on Friday to reconsider his ruling requiring United Parcel Service to give its deaf employees a chance to compete for jobs as drivers of small delivery trucks. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 13-2 that U.S. District Judge Thelton ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
UPS driver Glen Delong called the police as two kids threw a Pit Bull into a canal and hit it with a stick, according to news reports. The driver phoned the tip in after seeing the incident while working his route. Jarrius Flournah, 18, and Reginald Robinson, 19, are charged ...
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