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Drivers Injury Thanksgiving Worker Safety

I never realized how dangerous my job was – until the crashes started adding up.

Earlier this month a UPS plane ‘was destroyed after it impacted the ground shortly after takeoff’ from Louisville, Kentucky, killing all three people on board. Along the path of destruction, eleven more lost their lives and twenty-three others suffered mostly minor but still life-altering injuries. Though it didn’t attribute a cause or make any safety […]

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Advice Appreciation Holidays Online Shopping Thanksgiving Workforce

Four practical ways to thank your delivery drivers this holiday season

Thanksgiving two years ago I shared my thoughts about what I was thankful for as a new package car driver for United Parcel Service. Then last year I observed Thanksgiving with a reflection on how the supply chain is really a global chain of human (inter)activity bringing our purchases all the way to our front […]