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This has been an absolutely exhausting week on the preload. I don't bother with forecasts because they are rarely accurate and I have found the driver manifests to be most helpful in loading efficiently...up till now...
When I review the manifests I can get a pretty good picture of how much will go on what shelf so I can make a good load plan. Unfortunately this week it's been like peak!! Now usually I can look at the number of stops and figure they will come in a few over or under that number..but this week it has been horribly off. Yesterday one of my trucks had 4 bulk stops that were not on the manifest and the combined total of those pkgs was over 170. The truck already had a pkg count of 340 planned.
Same situation with my other two trucks put stop counts over 200.
So at 8:30..dispatch comes running down the belt with add/cuts of course..and 4 of us were there until after 9.
So today..same thing happens again. I get hit with bulk. But no sign of it on manifests..and not send agains.
So I ask the preload sup and she tells me that the reason it doesnt show up on the manifests or forecast sheets (even though they are printed up AFTER the sort begins) is because the companies don't send ups the information.
Now..I'm extremely confused by this. You mean to tell me that this multi million dollar computer system has no idea that these packages, that have been scanned at pick up,and are sitting on a ups trailer out in our parking lot, are supposed to be unloaded and loaded on trucks for delivery??
I mean seriously..
Did I miss something here..can anyone please explain what I obviously missed...
When I review the manifests I can get a pretty good picture of how much will go on what shelf so I can make a good load plan. Unfortunately this week it's been like peak!! Now usually I can look at the number of stops and figure they will come in a few over or under that number..but this week it has been horribly off. Yesterday one of my trucks had 4 bulk stops that were not on the manifest and the combined total of those pkgs was over 170. The truck already had a pkg count of 340 planned.
Same situation with my other two trucks put stop counts over 200.
So at 8:30..dispatch comes running down the belt with add/cuts of course..and 4 of us were there until after 9.
So today..same thing happens again. I get hit with bulk. But no sign of it on manifests..and not send agains.
So I ask the preload sup and she tells me that the reason it doesnt show up on the manifests or forecast sheets (even though they are printed up AFTER the sort begins) is because the companies don't send ups the information.
Now..I'm extremely confused by this. You mean to tell me that this multi million dollar computer system has no idea that these packages, that have been scanned at pick up,and are sitting on a ups trailer out in our parking lot, are supposed to be unloaded and loaded on trucks for delivery??
I mean seriously..
Did I miss something here..can anyone please explain what I obviously missed...