Union officials say a Texas UPS driver called for help after falling ill due to heat prior to crashing, but was told to drive himself in. KXAS’ Keenan Willard reports.
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ups too cheap to pay for air conditioning
Sounds like he’s weak
👀 This may come off as insensitive, but someone HAS to say it: some of these drivers are dumbasses for not staying hydrated with WATER–not soda–in the hot @$$ Texas,
Arizona, & Florida heat.
This is NOT UPS, FedEx, or USPS's fault when these knuckleheads don't resort to BASIC self-care 🙄
I've had that happened to me but not driving, this is no joke.
Ok people, for real, UPS needs to start being held accountable for these situations.
And as always nobody goes to jail for this.
"We are aware of an incident involving our driver in McKinney, TX. We care deeply about his safety and well-being." No, you don't. If you did you'd re-tool every last truck to have a functioning A/C with seals on the doors of the cabin. But no, that's too expensive. Instead, you give them a dinky little desk fan mounted on the dash thinking that's enough to survive in >100 degree heat for several hours every day during summer. How many more instances of heat stroke are going to have to happen before we get a class action lawsuit started? TOO MANY.
Something must be done about corporate greed.
UPS is extremely corrupt and the teamsters are barely doing anything to defend us anymore. All they did for the trucks is add a second one of those crappy small fans. Great job
I just bought a new car after driving an older one for over 2 years… the older one wasn’t worth repairing and one issue it had was the a/c… I worked in hot summers but this is also Michigan… and I was still feelin the heat… UPS should feel like trash for the lack of a/c in those trucks… those doors are always wide open because they are trying to give themselves any breeze possible. Sad for the driver who has to deal with this kinda treatment from a multi-million dollar company
Thank God I’m in Utah
Ups needs to switch to white trucks. But also usps, fedex, ups box trucks dont have good ac. They need to have a closed cab with a slider door too the back and be able to keep the front cold. I have heard so many stories about these box trucks with no heat or ac.
This is the 1000th comment
Carol B Tome could care less.
If they cared about the drivers then the trucks would have air conditioning. It’s probably only an extra 2k option per truck.
Companies only act like they care when they about to lose money. Glad the driver is ok!
Idk UPS has unions, they aren’t fighting for their own rights enough. Stop evil practices for big companies, big Pharma, and big government.
Crazy. I hate this. As a mail carrier, these delivery companies really don’t care about us. We had a carrier pass out and die in someone’s yard in Texas last year due to extreme heat, and all they cared about is “next man up.” Yet we call these things out and higher management ignores it, but they say safety is their number one goal 🙄. Praying for the guy. A lot of times, each of us from each different company have to look out for one another.
Air conditioning is an expense. Companies don't like expenses.
America didn’t know that transportation drivers are over worked and under paid
Compaines: "Don't get heat stroke working in the heat!!!!
Also companies: "what's ac"
No AC in Texas is crazy😅.
UPS does not care about it's employees…
Drug test
UPS doesn't give two cents about their employees or customers. MONEY IS ALL!! MONEY IS GOD!!!!!
SUE them for them everything . It’s the only way companies will learn to care is if it hits there pockets hard .
NONE OF THOSE TRUCKS HAVE AC
Suing does nothing to these giant corporations. They will gladly pay since it's pennies for them. Former Google CEO just told a bunch of Stanford students to use AI to make an app that will copy TikTok. And if the clone becomes successful, lawsuits don't matter as you can just pay it off and barely make a dent in your company.
Should like does people need to workout more and get healthier. How do you pass out driving?
Got it, never working for UPS
It’s called air conditioning (A/C), it was invented in 1902. UPS is just cheap and the government needs to step in.
It’s so annoying that avrg people just say “ I’m so shocked about….” Every story like they grew up in some bubble.
I live here in Houston and let me tell you. This heat is NO JOKE. Then when you factor the high humidity on top of it. It's deadly dude.
UPS higher ups don't care. Deliver those Amazon packages, wage slave. Their thoughts.
Corporate greed is breaking America at the seams in more ways than one. I give us another decade at the most if nothing changes.
Much much much worse is just around the corner and you soon understand why humanity spent a very long time living underground (removed from “history” for obvious reasons) so good luck with that ✌️
Why isn’t the government requiring them to put AC in ALL UPS trucks.
They need to put AC units in those trucks, or start using a new type of truck to deliver packages.
Most people don't understand that the back of those step vans get 160°F and the cabin isn't insulated so the only way an A/C works well is being blasted at you. The Amazon step vans just started getting a head A/C unit installed which works very well so UPS has NO reason to not give these guys the same thing
Has an ex Amazon driver no AC is insane I bring something to mesure the temperature at work one day mad in the bac we got all the way up to 90c (194f) in the back or truck is equipped with AC but we are almost not allowed to use it, because we have EOC (engine of compliance) that must be followed at 100%. so every time we do a delivery, we are not allowed to leave the engine on so every time I come back to the truck when I start the engine if I put the AC the only thing that get out of the vent is hot hair that doesn’t have time to cool down before the next delivery
All things considered that could have ended a lot worse.
i dont understand why the trucks DONT have a.c.
UPS FEDEX USPS they all got the same crap management
Safety gets in the way of profits. You must think of the shareholders.
Every job should be required to have ACs in Texas
Anyone talking in the comments talking about how horrible it is, it's your fault. Consumerism in a nutshell, many of the workers who deliver, make, pack, ship, your cheap junk deal with the same horrible working conditions.
This is not the first time this has happened, and unfortunately, it will not be the last.