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Petition to UPS

Require UPS to provide air conditioning to delivery drivers. Arizona experiences record breaking heat, every year.

As a UPS driver, who drives 8-10 hours a day in a solid metal truck with no air, my husband is at risk of injury every day. The temperature inside the cargo area is 15-20 degrees hotter than the outside temperature. Average temperatures in Arizona, for 5 months out of the year, are over 110 degrees. That means that the cargo area in a UPS truck is at least 125 degrees. This is extremely dangerous, as not only is the temperature a factor but a UPS driver is not allowed to go home until all of the packages on his truck are delivered. Imagine running for 8-10 hours in a fluctuating temperature of 100-125 degrees…dangerous right?

Even after 20 years of service, my husband still has no air but twice as much work during the summer than the rest of the year. As a Fortune 500 company, UPS could show appreciation to their dedicated drivers by giving them air conditioning in their vehicles. UPS is the ONLY company that does not provide this comfort. In the excessive heat of the southwest, it is mandatory for the health and safety of all UPS drivers to have air conditioning. If it is illegal in the state of Arizona to leave a child or pet in your vehicle during the hot summer months, then it is only reasonable to suggest that safety measures, such as air conditioning, be required in UPS trucks.

Delivery drivers are the ONLY employees, within UPS, who do not have vehicles with air conditioning.

Please sign, share and support us as we ask UPS to give all of their employees the same treatment, provide air conditioning for your package car drivers.

*We would also like to ask the State of Arizona to enact a safety measure to protect anyone who would be required to endure extreme temperatures inside of non air conditioned vehicles. *

Letter to
United Parcel Service
Arizona State Senate
Arizona State House
Require UPS to provide air conditioning to delivery drivers.
UPS

UPS driver recovering after pit bull mauling

DENVER – A UPS driver is recovering after he was viciously attacked by two pit bulls at a southeast Denver condominium complex.

Ed Kline was delivering a package Thursday at Woodstream Falls Condominiums on East Iliff Avenue when he was attacked.

Kline’s wife said he has more than 80 stitches in his arms and one of the dogs bit through his shoe and broke his foot.

The pit bull owner, who wasn’t home at the time, said her 4-year-old daughter opened the door and the dogs got out. A babysitter was supposed to be supervising.

“I’m very sorry for the gentleman,” owner Irina Malaya told 7NEWS, crying by phone. “I don’t know what to say because I’m freaking out.”

Malaya claimed she didn’t know pit bulls are banned in Denver, and said the owner of the condo she’s renting never told her. She said the dogs have not hurt anyone in the past.

A neighbor told 7NEWS that Malaya said she knew pit bulls were outlawed in Denver.

Malaya was cited for owning pit bulls as well as the dogs’ biting. She agreed to have both dogs euthanized. Animal Control said there is no record of prior attacks.

Neighbors who saw what happened to Kline said it was horrifying.

“The guy lost a lot of blood,” said neighbor Velma, who didn’t want to give her last name.

She showed 7NEWS the corridor where Kline was cornered by the dogs, one of them relentless.

“This was a pretty horrific looking thing here,” Velma said of the surrounding walls. “The dog was kind of in kill mode really, and it ran back and attacked him again.”

What likely saved Kline’s life was a man and woman who were able to pull him inside his porch, away from the dogs.

The couple weren’t home when we stopped by on Tuesday, and Kline’s wife said she has been unable to reach them to thank them personally.

Kline, a UPS driver of 38 years, is well-known at the complex, and neighbors are now circulating a “get well” card for him.

7NEWS