To UPS Customers Reading This Site -
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City Driver
Well-Known Member
i got one for the ups freight shippers reading this site
thank you for choosing to band your skid with that cheap plastic banding....your customers have no idea you use this stuff, because it always breaks off or falls off the skid and becomes nice trailer/dock confetti.....gets itself wedged under pallets or gets tangled up in the pallet jack wheels
thank you for choosing to band your skid with that cheap plastic banding....your customers have no idea you use this stuff, because it always breaks off or falls off the skid and becomes nice trailer/dock confetti.....gets itself wedged under pallets or gets tangled up in the pallet jack wheels
dilligaf
IN VINO VERITAS
The same thing applies to pkg as well. Our trucks are constantly littered with those.
City Driver
Well-Known Member
i wouldnt know......
i didnt think UPS ever used skids or pallet jacks or forklifts..
i thought all boxes were loaded straight onto the trailer, and unloaded by hand onto a conveyor belt
i didnt think UPS ever used skids or pallet jacks or forklifts..
i thought all boxes were loaded straight onto the trailer, and unloaded by hand onto a conveyor belt
sealbasher
Well-Known Member
ive been sick for 3 days drunk 4
trplnkl
555
Hmmmmm, maybe would be a good time to learn,,,huh...Moderation? Not criticizing, just saying.
trplnkl
555
The banding you are talking about is probably the same as what our shippers use to band multiple packages together, that rarely stay together. One or more of the bands gets loose and ends up in the package car. Great tripping device.
sealbasher
Well-Known Member
i havent been ill for at least 4 years,but whatever i had floored me
trplnkl
555
I take it you are doing better now?
JimJimmyJames
Big Time Feeder Driver
In feeder, we often pick up from customers who load our trailers with their packages on pallets. At the hub, the loaded pallets are then broken down, inside the trailer, during the unloading process. Usually, conveyors extend into the trailer to retrieve the packages. Sometimes rollers are used.
The empty pallets are left in the trailer, along with any shrink wrap, bands, or tape the customer might have used to secure the packages to the pallet.
The next time the trailer is used, it is swept and the pallets are stacked in the front (or removed) by the next feeder driver to use the trailer. Some of the trailers are also cleaned by car washers.
UPSNewbie
Well-Known Member
Ha. Funny story. I was unloading, and there were two pallets leaned up against the nose of the trailer when I got finished. I thought that your scenario is why they were there. The trailer then got pulled, and I got trailer. I got halfway through it when I get this bitching from this power-tripped sup. There was actually address labels stuck to the pallets--which were for the pallets... Someone shipped pallets... Does this normally happen? Shipping prices must have been high, when they could go to any warehouse around here and ask if they have any extras...
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pickup
Guest
There's no worse feeling when you walk back there , hoping that it is empty, hoping maybe it has two pallets at most, and when you look, the front to the back is lined with these pallets and all the shrink wrap. UGGGh. I carry a razor blade knife with me to cut the shink wrap. Nothing more annoying carrying a skid and the shrink wrap attached to the skid starts dragging other skids.
This can take up a lot of time. What I like to do is If I am going to a pickup that uses skids Half will get thrown out onto the dock and the other half will go into the front and then the customer will just take out the stack and be happy that he got 12 free pallets.
I get offered money sometimes for the skids, but refuse it. Creates good will, keeps me out of trouble by not taking the money and it is a win, win for everyone
DorkHead
Well-Known Member
DS
Fenderbender
Don't mess with sealbasher or I'm comin' after you
JimJimmyJames
Big Time Feeder Driver
I'll have to say, sweeping trailers and stacking pallets (physical labor, ugh!) has to be my least favorite activities of the job. That and shifting (Too hot! Too cold! And sometimes, too dirty!).
Hehe, boy have I become spoiled
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pickup
Guest
I'll have to say, sweeping trailers and stacking pallets (physical labor, ugh!) has to be my least favorite activities of the job. That and shifting (Too hot! Too cold! And sometimes, too dirty!).
Hehe, boy have I become spoiled
shifting sucks, mostly because the equipment sucks. No workable defrost in many, gotta keep the windows and the backdoor open sometimes to keep the windows defogged.
JimJimmyJames
Big Time Feeder Driver
True, and whats up with not having air conditioning? A fan just does not cut it. And driving at a max speed of 15 mph does not lend to great air flow.
And when you leave the back door open on some of those slugs the exhaust fumes you breath can make you sick
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And when you leave the back door open on some of those slugs the exhaust fumes you breath can make you sick
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pickup
Guest
True, and whats up with not having air conditioning? A fan just does not cut it. And driving at a max speed of 15 mph does not lend to great air flow.
And when you leave the back door open on some of those slugs the exhaust fumes you breath can make you sick
yeah! the last time I saw a fan like that was in the school bus that picked me up when i went to elementary school.
and ain't that the truth about the fumes
City Driver
Well-Known Member
i love shifting...true theres no AC......
the trick is to drive 50 mph in the yard with your head out the window
the trick is to drive 50 mph in the yard with your head out the window
