UPS Package Car Driver — Full-Time Driving Career

September 21, 2026

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Position: Package Car Driver — Full-time Driving Career (Based in Oak Lawn) Company: UPS Location: Oak Lawn, IL

Pay: $25-$38/Hour (approx. $66.2k/Year) Benefits: This role offers a competitive benefits package. Impactful work with supportive local leadership.

Day-to-Day

Core objectives involve your professional skills in Package Logistics And Last-mile Delivery.

This Oak Lawn-based role is an excellent opportunity for professionals skilled in relevant skills.
Our UPS team in Oak Lawn, IL is growing.
Benefit from working in Oak Lawn, a key hub for the Package Logistics And Last-mile Delivery industry.

About UPS & Our Culture

The UPS Package Car Driver is one of the most iconic and financially rewarding blue-collar careers in America. Behind the wheel of the legendary brown truck, our drivers earn Teamsters union wages that reach among the highest in the parcel delivery industry — without ever needing a commercial driver's license. At UPS, the UPS driver job is not a gig, not a contractor position, and not a temporary assignment. It is a career built on a Teamsters contract, a pension, full family healthcare, and a guaranteed wage progression that rewards every year of service with a meaningful raise. When you search for UPS driver jobs near me, you are searching for one of the most sought-after full-time positions in the American labor market.

What Our Team Says (Employee Reviews)

"I have been driving for UPS for eleven years and I tell everyone who will listen — there is no better driving job in this country. My top-rate pay is higher than most office professionals in my area, my pension is growing every quarter, and my family's health insurance is the best coverage any of them have ever had. I get home for dinner most nights, I own my route, and I genuinely feel like I built something here. If you are looking for a real UPS driver job, not a gig, apply and do not look back." - Current Package Car Driver, Portland, OR.

Role Overview & Responsibilities

As a UPS Package Car Driver, you operate one of UPS's iconic brown delivery vehicles across an assigned residential and commercial route, delivering and collecting packages for homes and businesses while representing the UPS brand at every customer doorstep. This is the full-time UPS driving job that generations of drivers have built their livelihoods on.

Route Execution: Complete 100 to 200 package stops per day on your assigned residential and commercial route, using the UPS DIAD device and GPS routing to navigate efficiently and maintain the on-time service standards that UPS customers depend on every single day.
Customer-Facing Service: Represent UPS professionally at every stop — obtaining signatures, answering delivery questions, handling access codes for gated communities, and resolving minor delivery exceptions on the spot without escalation.
Pickup Service: Collect outbound packages from commercial accounts and UPS drop boxes along your route during the afternoon, scanning every item into the system and returning to the package center for end-of-day sort processing.

Benefits & Perks

Full-time UPS Package Car Drivers earn Teamsters top-rate wages after the contractual progression period — among the highest in the parcel industry without a CDL. Benefits include full family medical, dental, and vision insurance, a defined-benefit Teamsters pension, paid vacation, paid holidays, paid sick time, and a 401(k) with company match. No commercial driver's license required. Weekly direct-deposit paychecks from your very first week on the road.

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