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<blockquote data-quote="westsideworma" data-source="post: 250634"><p>To be honest VT, most drivers at my hub prefer the old way because preloaders could adjust the load the way they wanted it the next day or that day if the left a note from the prior one. Dispatch is getting better about correcting loads, but nothing beat talking to your preloader and having it done everyday. As a result, while I was a preloader I still custom loaded for certain drivers because I knew them well having been their loader for a while and wanted to help them out since at the time no one who could officially fix the problem (other than me) was willing or able to do so.</p><p></p><p>I learned and loaded both ways, Alpha Charts and PAS. PAS is easier to learn, I don't and won't dispute that, but as far as load quality etc? Its a wash in my opinion. During the alpha days I KNEW what went on my trucks and where and as such could shift the load according to the amount of packages I got. When we got PAS I had NO idea what i was getting and where it was going day to day so my overall efficiency suffered. I stacked things out because I had no idea where I could put the overflow from the bulk stops (wanted to keep it together). You might say if a section is empty by 7:30 then use that (as our esteemed IE guy did) but wait here comes that 8:15 add/cut to the previously empty section now filled with a bulkstops overflow....and it happened more often than it didn't. But surely bulk stops must be constant right? nope those moved on certain days due to plans in the computer and I didn't realize it as I was trained to look at the address first anyway because of the alpha charts. It ended up being the Monday plan so I loaded it the "right" way (where the stuff is every other day besides mon not where it was "misPALed") anyway. The driver never noticed until I was out on a monday and the person who covered the pull put it where it was PALed. This tells me two things, that some drivers probably don't even use the PAL labels (or he'd know where the stuff moved) and that whoever did the plan for that particular day doesn't know the job as bulk stops don't belong on the shelves.</p><p></p><p>Also the job IS harder now no offense, we're expected to do more (a lot more) in less time with no mistakes. Our boxline had a planned pph of 219 while I worked on it on PAS (it may be different now). Our start times are based on that plan so we'd get less time to do it than before. I've always loaded around 200-250 (depending on the sleep I got lol and the flow from the primary of course) but 219 an hour is a lot. Considering before PAS 170 was the MAR and when we started PAS it went up to an at least respectable 180pph. When it was 180 (and we ironed out the system flips etc) an hour I still had misloads but rarely as i had the time to double check all the labels and finish. Whoever decided ALL preloaders should be able to do 219+ everyday consistently (I believe aspenleaf said her boxline was at 228) clearly doesn't know the job or our particular center. Add to that everything must be perfectly sequenced, labels pulled and facing front and oh yea don't even think about having a misload buddy. I have two words, pipe dream. Not to mention a lot of our work is late (which I've heard is a recurring problem in many centers) so we have even less time to do all that really. I never had a misload problem before PAS, the first day we used it I had a ton. More than I had the whole year prior to when we went live on PAS. Granted many were system flips and out of snyc but still. Even our former IE supe had 7 misloads with the PAS he touted as being so easy and that we were a bunch of "sh**heads" for not being able to do it...yeah he shut his damn mouth after he covered a pull that day.</p><p></p><p>So I guess I'm saying its not as easy as some people think. Its in the implementation I think. As on paper (the way this company looks at everything now) it should work. It does in some areas and not so much in others. I'd like to think that it will eventually too, but I hear the same issues at centers that have been on it for years so I'm not too optimistic. Preloaders only have so much time, they can't catch everything all the time and they shouldn't have to. I train them now and I do train them to look at the address first and then the PAL and the methods etc, but you know what when their backs are against the wall as they are nearly every day @ 745 when we throw 8 sorters on the slide (normally 3) to jam the cages I know they can't check them all (and wrap when we need them to) and I do indeed know thats when the misloads occur and load quality suffers. I know because I was a preloader too and I haven't forgot what it was like yet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="westsideworma, post: 250634"] To be honest VT, most drivers at my hub prefer the old way because preloaders could adjust the load the way they wanted it the next day or that day if the left a note from the prior one. Dispatch is getting better about correcting loads, but nothing beat talking to your preloader and having it done everyday. As a result, while I was a preloader I still custom loaded for certain drivers because I knew them well having been their loader for a while and wanted to help them out since at the time no one who could officially fix the problem (other than me) was willing or able to do so. I learned and loaded both ways, Alpha Charts and PAS. PAS is easier to learn, I don't and won't dispute that, but as far as load quality etc? Its a wash in my opinion. During the alpha days I KNEW what went on my trucks and where and as such could shift the load according to the amount of packages I got. When we got PAS I had NO idea what i was getting and where it was going day to day so my overall efficiency suffered. I stacked things out because I had no idea where I could put the overflow from the bulk stops (wanted to keep it together). You might say if a section is empty by 7:30 then use that (as our esteemed IE guy did) but wait here comes that 8:15 add/cut to the previously empty section now filled with a bulkstops overflow....and it happened more often than it didn't. But surely bulk stops must be constant right? nope those moved on certain days due to plans in the computer and I didn't realize it as I was trained to look at the address first anyway because of the alpha charts. It ended up being the Monday plan so I loaded it the "right" way (where the stuff is every other day besides mon not where it was "misPALed") anyway. The driver never noticed until I was out on a monday and the person who covered the pull put it where it was PALed. This tells me two things, that some drivers probably don't even use the PAL labels (or he'd know where the stuff moved) and that whoever did the plan for that particular day doesn't know the job as bulk stops don't belong on the shelves. Also the job IS harder now no offense, we're expected to do more (a lot more) in less time with no mistakes. Our boxline had a planned pph of 219 while I worked on it on PAS (it may be different now). Our start times are based on that plan so we'd get less time to do it than before. I've always loaded around 200-250 (depending on the sleep I got lol and the flow from the primary of course) but 219 an hour is a lot. Considering before PAS 170 was the MAR and when we started PAS it went up to an at least respectable 180pph. When it was 180 (and we ironed out the system flips etc) an hour I still had misloads but rarely as i had the time to double check all the labels and finish. Whoever decided ALL preloaders should be able to do 219+ everyday consistently (I believe aspenleaf said her boxline was at 228) clearly doesn't know the job or our particular center. Add to that everything must be perfectly sequenced, labels pulled and facing front and oh yea don't even think about having a misload buddy. I have two words, pipe dream. Not to mention a lot of our work is late (which I've heard is a recurring problem in many centers) so we have even less time to do all that really. I never had a misload problem before PAS, the first day we used it I had a ton. More than I had the whole year prior to when we went live on PAS. Granted many were system flips and out of snyc but still. Even our former IE supe had 7 misloads with the PAS he touted as being so easy and that we were a bunch of "sh**heads" for not being able to do it...yeah he shut his damn mouth after he covered a pull that day. So I guess I'm saying its not as easy as some people think. Its in the implementation I think. As on paper (the way this company looks at everything now) it should work. It does in some areas and not so much in others. I'd like to think that it will eventually too, but I hear the same issues at centers that have been on it for years so I'm not too optimistic. Preloaders only have so much time, they can't catch everything all the time and they shouldn't have to. I train them now and I do train them to look at the address first and then the PAL and the methods etc, but you know what when their backs are against the wall as they are nearly every day @ 745 when we throw 8 sorters on the slide (normally 3) to jam the cages I know they can't check them all (and wrap when we need them to) and I do indeed know thats when the misloads occur and load quality suffers. I know because I was a preloader too and I haven't forgot what it was like yet. [/QUOTE]
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