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<blockquote data-quote="Marne Vet" data-source="post: 1230735" data-attributes="member: 51053"><p>OK, I think many of us have felt this way over the years, and have experienced similar situations. I can't stress enough that you shouldn't overthink this process. You're getting boned daily, and it's probably not gonna get any better. Just worse. If the driver is a rookie and isn't sure of himself, or the area he's working in, he needs to focus on a few basic things first. Forget getting the Preload to do their job correctly. Will never happen. Good loaders are few and far between. Most of them honestly blow, and don't give a crap about misloads. If you're a Preloader reading this and would like to disagree, then form a line. Nothing some cyber Cowboy will tell me on [here] will erase 19 years of dealing with awful loaders. You know you a lot of the people you work with are lazy, and just suck at their job, so lets stay on topic. </p><p>This driver of yours needs to work simple. Pick an area he can get to, and sort 10-20 stops at a time. If he has bulk, and can dig it out, then do those stops first after the airs are done. Stop trying to do everything at once. This job is tough physically and mentally, so lets focus on making the mental part easier. When I had an 800 blow-out front to back, and had zero room to sort, I would work from the front till I had about 10 feet of space. Then I would jam all the crap to the back as tight as possible. I didn't care if I was missing stops in a particular area, because I could always go back. I needed to make a comfort zone to operate in. When you can make a little space to sort in, everything else starts to fall into place. Don't focus on the huge mess behind you, and try to work on a shelf or a bunch that you can get to. It's not easy, and can be very stressful, but the stops will come off the truck. You might be our there till 9:30 PM or later. I've worked past 10 PM a few times and had to have someone grab my airs for the air-wall, but I stayed calm and didn't have a mental meltdown. You definitely should bitch to your sup, and to the Preload sup. Get them to get on that loaders ass about his poor quality. I don't care what someone thinks about me for bitching. If you don't do your job I'll express it the following day, but in a tactful manner so the guy/gal doesn't get too offended. Sometimes you can't avoid that, and the lazy POS needs to be ripped daily until management does something. I've seen loaders get fired, so it does happen if they can't fix themselves. As far as working on the diad goes. Let the driver use the diad. Let him/her put all of the stops in the board and DR them. You run them off and don't bring'em back. Businesses are an exception, but my helpers NEVER touch a diad. I use them, and put the minimum required stops in the helper board, and occasionally keep using it if I have to stop complete something with the wheels rolling or engine idling. Yeah, we still have to circumvent these stupid telematics at times, especially during peak since they're not keeping our dispatches honest. I wish you all the luck. Try not to let it stress you out too much.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marne Vet, post: 1230735, member: 51053"] OK, I think many of us have felt this way over the years, and have experienced similar situations. I can't stress enough that you shouldn't overthink this process. You're getting boned daily, and it's probably not gonna get any better. Just worse. If the driver is a rookie and isn't sure of himself, or the area he's working in, he needs to focus on a few basic things first. Forget getting the Preload to do their job correctly. Will never happen. Good loaders are few and far between. Most of them honestly blow, and don't give a crap about misloads. If you're a Preloader reading this and would like to disagree, then form a line. Nothing some cyber Cowboy will tell me on [here] will erase 19 years of dealing with awful loaders. You know you a lot of the people you work with are lazy, and just suck at their job, so lets stay on topic. This driver of yours needs to work simple. Pick an area he can get to, and sort 10-20 stops at a time. If he has bulk, and can dig it out, then do those stops first after the airs are done. Stop trying to do everything at once. This job is tough physically and mentally, so lets focus on making the mental part easier. When I had an 800 blow-out front to back, and had zero room to sort, I would work from the front till I had about 10 feet of space. Then I would jam all the crap to the back as tight as possible. I didn't care if I was missing stops in a particular area, because I could always go back. I needed to make a comfort zone to operate in. When you can make a little space to sort in, everything else starts to fall into place. Don't focus on the huge mess behind you, and try to work on a shelf or a bunch that you can get to. It's not easy, and can be very stressful, but the stops will come off the truck. You might be our there till 9:30 PM or later. I've worked past 10 PM a few times and had to have someone grab my airs for the air-wall, but I stayed calm and didn't have a mental meltdown. You definitely should bitch to your sup, and to the Preload sup. Get them to get on that loaders ass about his poor quality. I don't care what someone thinks about me for bitching. If you don't do your job I'll express it the following day, but in a tactful manner so the guy/gal doesn't get too offended. Sometimes you can't avoid that, and the lazy POS needs to be ripped daily until management does something. I've seen loaders get fired, so it does happen if they can't fix themselves. As far as working on the diad goes. Let the driver use the diad. Let him/her put all of the stops in the board and DR them. You run them off and don't bring'em back. Businesses are an exception, but my helpers NEVER touch a diad. I use them, and put the minimum required stops in the helper board, and occasionally keep using it if I have to stop complete something with the wheels rolling or engine idling. Yeah, we still have to circumvent these stupid telematics at times, especially during peak since they're not keeping our dispatches honest. I wish you all the luck. Try not to let it stress you out too much. [/QUOTE]
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