Another UPS alumni here. Started the summer between my junior and senior year in high school. If I remember correctly, top pay for the dock workers at that time (1976) was $4.10. Better than most of my friends working at the hosiery mill (Cannon). Definitely taught young boys, and a few girls, how to work your tail off despite the circumstances you were in. Very hot, very cold, sick, sore, hurt, getting cussed at and threatened with job termination.....you just had to keep going. Opening up the trailers after they had sit outside on the asphalt in the middle of the summer was like stepping in front of a furnace. And then you had to go inside it to load or unload the boxes! I worked there 7 years and am thankful for the discipline it instilled in my soul as a young man.