If I could give zero stars or negative stars I would. We ship LTL freight regularly for our business. We have shipped with many companies and have NEVER had an experience as bad as with UPS Freight. We scheduled two shipments with UPS Freight thinking they should be a reliable company, like other big-name companies such as FedEx Freight, Central Freight, or YRC. What a tremendous mistake! In summary, Shipment #1 was picked up days late, lost, found weeks after the shipment was due, never actually delivered by UPS Freight (we had to pick it up from their terminal), and damaged. Shipment #2 was picked up 2 days late, they failed to deliver it during the "delivery appointment" time or even on that day, and failed to notify us that it would be late; then delivered it on day that we could not accept the delivery after saying they "definitely would not" deliver it that day. If you would like the details relating to each shipment, please read below.
For the first shipment, UPS Freight failed to pick up the freight on the scheduled pickup day. They picked it up a couple days later with no notification of the change. We requested a delivery appointment time because it was fragile freight and I wanted to ensure my warehouse manager would be available to oversee unloading of the freight, and paid extra for the "delivery appointment". The freight didn't arrive. I called UPS Freight and they could not determine where the freight was. They said they would contact the local terminal and someone would call me back within an hour. The next day I still did not receive a call. This repeated for 3 days. On the 3rd day they told me they had no idea where our freight was. They said it wasn't lost; they just didn't know where it was located. (That sounds lost to me.) About a week later, the freight was finally delivered to the UPS terminal for the destination city. They told us it would be another week before it was delivered to our warehouse (it was originally supposed to be 3 days from shipper to delivery to consignee, our company). It was now urgently needed, so we asked if we could send a truck to pick it up from the UPS terminal. Our driver arrived at the terminal and the freight was off of the skids and damaged. The freight consisted of 3 hospital beds wrapped in protective wrap and secured to skids. They severely damaged one of the beds and blamed it on the shipper improperly securing it to the skids. The shipper ships hospital beds wrapped and secured to skids on a daily basis, and they have never had this occur. We receive beds wrapped and secured to skids regularly and have never had this occur.
Shipment #2 included two very large, heavy crates (154" x 74" x 68" and over 1800 lbs each). Due to the size, we needed multiple employees present when the freight arrived to assist in unloading. Therefore, we requested a delivery appointment for this shipment also. Due to the size and weight of the shipment, UPS Freight called the shipper to arrange pickup. Then they failed to appear on the day THEY scheduled. The shipment was picked up 5 days later. After calling the shipper to schedule the pickup, they gave no notice that they would not arrive to pick it up. They then called to schedule a "delivery appointment", giving a 6 1/2 hour window during which they would (allegedly) deliver the freight. We arranged to have extra employees at the warehouse on the day of the delivery. But the freight didn't arrive. And once again, we did not get a call letting us know that they would not deliver during the appointment time or even the same day. After again calling to track down the freight, I was told it had not yet arrived in the state, much less to the delivery terminal. They said they would call me back and let me know when it would be delivered. Again, we received no call. I called UPS again the following business day and was told that it would arrive at our local terminal on Monday, that they would call to re-schedule the delivery appointment, and they "definitely would not" deliver without calling for an appointment first. Monday morning the first employee arrived at the warehouse to find the UPS truck in the parking lot. Needless to say, they had not called to re-schedule the appointment. Unfortunately, our forklift operator had taken the day off so we had no one to unload the freight because they said they "definitely would not" deliver it that day and without re-scheduling the appt.
The employees of UPS Freight have lied and failed to keep their promises repeatedly. They were not careful with the freight and caused extensive damage. I ABSOLUTELY RECOMMEND AGAINST USING THIS COMPANY! read more