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<blockquote data-quote="pickup" data-source="post: 433847"><p>okay, lets take my day yesterday as a feeder driver, punched in , grabbed tractor and trailer, emptied out twenty pallets (left over) and garbage with a sense of urgency, drove to my first pickup and at second pickup broke down 4 pallets of approximately 200 pieces so everything can fit, came back , dropped trailer, picked up another trailer for a pickup ( got 20 empty pallets off again ) Drove down to pickup and swapped trailers which meant unhooking, hooking, unhooking,hooking, unhooking, and hooking. Came back, unhooked. Took lunch, , did a couple of trailer moves with tractor (not shifter), got assigned a 2 hour run with a set of doubles, that i had to assemble. 2 hours to get there , 2 hours to get back with another set of doubles that I had to assemble. The point I am trying to make is we don't sit on our asses all day as feeder drivers. The problem in this case is that feeder's dispatchers try to use him to enforce the pull time and creates friction with the loaders. they want him to be the bad guy. Plenty of times i have relayed info to my dispatch about a trailer being held up at door and they say they will send one of our supervisors over. The first time they sent someone over, I thought " great ! I am going to get going." Supe shows up and just observes, says nothing. He doesn't want friction . He justs hopes his presence is enough to speed things up. They know they are powerless, yet they expect me on my own to do (get trailer off door) what they can't or are unwilling to do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pickup, post: 433847"] okay, lets take my day yesterday as a feeder driver, punched in , grabbed tractor and trailer, emptied out twenty pallets (left over) and garbage with a sense of urgency, drove to my first pickup and at second pickup broke down 4 pallets of approximately 200 pieces so everything can fit, came back , dropped trailer, picked up another trailer for a pickup ( got 20 empty pallets off again ) Drove down to pickup and swapped trailers which meant unhooking, hooking, unhooking,hooking, unhooking, and hooking. Came back, unhooked. Took lunch, , did a couple of trailer moves with tractor (not shifter), got assigned a 2 hour run with a set of doubles, that i had to assemble. 2 hours to get there , 2 hours to get back with another set of doubles that I had to assemble. The point I am trying to make is we don't sit on our asses all day as feeder drivers. The problem in this case is that feeder's dispatchers try to use him to enforce the pull time and creates friction with the loaders. they want him to be the bad guy. Plenty of times i have relayed info to my dispatch about a trailer being held up at door and they say they will send one of our supervisors over. The first time they sent someone over, I thought " great ! I am going to get going." Supe shows up and just observes, says nothing. He doesn't want friction . He justs hopes his presence is enough to speed things up. They know they are powerless, yet they expect me on my own to do (get trailer off door) what they can't or are unwilling to do. [/QUOTE]
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