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Do preloaders get in trouble for misleads?
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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 861795" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>My route is loaded outside the building in an MDU, which is basically a 54-foot trailer with a conveyor belt running down the middle of it and 5 openings on each side for package cars to park against. There is a belt that runs from the sort aisle out through a hole in the wall of the building to the MDU.</p><p></p><p>Any preloader that is assigned to load in an MDU like mine has been set up to fail. The MDU is narrow, overcrowded and poorly lit. There are no stack tables for bulk routes, and the design of the belt is such that it isnt possible to store much bulk underneath it. The hole in the wall of the building that the belt comes out of is too small for irregs, so there are frequent jams. Large irregs must be loaded on a cart, wheeled out to the man door at the end of the MDU, dragged up the stairs, and pushed <em>against</em> the flow of the belt to the car they are supposed to be loaded into. And to make matters worse (for me) my route is parked in the <em>first</em> spot so anything coming down the belt for me has to be loaded <em>immediately</em> to keep it from blowing by. What I usually wind up with is a "fling job" which means that my preloader pretty much flings the packages into a pile on the middle of the floor since there isnt room to stack them anywhere.</p><p></p><p>The bottom line is that poor load quality isnt the fault of whatever 19 yr old kid happens to be assigned to my route on a given day. Our fine I.E. department has made a business decision that paying me $45 an hour on OT to fight a bad load and run around shagging misloads is more cost-effective than letting a $11 per hour preloader stay on the clock for a few extra minutes in a properly designed work area. Who am I to argue with their superior wisdom?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 861795, member: 14668"] My route is loaded outside the building in an MDU, which is basically a 54-foot trailer with a conveyor belt running down the middle of it and 5 openings on each side for package cars to park against. There is a belt that runs from the sort aisle out through a hole in the wall of the building to the MDU. Any preloader that is assigned to load in an MDU like mine has been set up to fail. The MDU is narrow, overcrowded and poorly lit. There are no stack tables for bulk routes, and the design of the belt is such that it isnt possible to store much bulk underneath it. The hole in the wall of the building that the belt comes out of is too small for irregs, so there are frequent jams. Large irregs must be loaded on a cart, wheeled out to the man door at the end of the MDU, dragged up the stairs, and pushed [I]against[/I] the flow of the belt to the car they are supposed to be loaded into. And to make matters worse (for me) my route is parked in the [I]first[/I] spot so anything coming down the belt for me has to be loaded [I]immediately[/I] to keep it from blowing by. What I usually wind up with is a "fling job" which means that my preloader pretty much flings the packages into a pile on the middle of the floor since there isnt room to stack them anywhere. The bottom line is that poor load quality isnt the fault of whatever 19 yr old kid happens to be assigned to my route on a given day. Our fine I.E. department has made a business decision that paying me $45 an hour on OT to fight a bad load and run around shagging misloads is more cost-effective than letting a $11 per hour preloader stay on the clock for a few extra minutes in a properly designed work area. Who am I to argue with their superior wisdom? [/QUOTE]
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