Will UPS ever do away with preloaders?

[Indecisi0n]

My center is working on having drivers yell and degrade themselves so UPS can do away with management.

 

[clean hairy]

If preloaders were done away with, there would be no way to gain seniority to drive, if no drivers, no packages are delivered, the union wouldn't let that fly, even if it were CLOSE to being possible, I can't imagine it being possible, so many things that only a human being can do that a robot or machine will never be able to do.

consider the automated centers, the scanners still make missorts.
Imagine any automation loading package cars and putting stops 15 miles away in all directions!

 

[Number24]

UPS wouldn't spend the $ to buy robots.

 

[clean hairy]

Sure they will!
Look at the cost savings, no vacations or retirement expense.
Of course, imagine the robots knocking on doors, they will be breaking countless doors each day when they see a note to knock loud!

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

UPS wouldn't spend the $ to buy robots.

ups will send as much as they can to get rid of us. They are looking at cost savings over years and decades.

 

[Number24]

ups will send as much as they can to get rid of us. They are looking at cost savings over years and decades.

Oh I knew that the minute I breathed in the hub's air.

 

[Wally]

 

[Lead Belly]

Just a question I'm posing. Do you think robots, or some future organizing system would be put in place that loads the trucks for drivers every morning? Do you think you'd like it better that way without human input?

Or what about drivers being replaced with self-driving delivery vehicles?

I'm replaced every time I take another one of my million teamster negotiated vacation weeks and option days. Usually by a young robot.

 

[rod]

I would say that the day UPS can do away with pre-loaders is about the same day all lower management is shown the door.

 

[PT Car Washer]

In my building preloaders are being replaced by PT sups hired off the street.

 

[Jackburton]

In my building preloaders are being replaced by PT sups hired off the street.

Sounds like you should make an LLC named PRELOAD SUP LABOR STAFFING SERVICE. Maybe start a P&L and bring in some orange peels and Gatorade for summer so your employees don't get dehydrated.

 

[imwell]

I would say that the day UPS can do away with pre-loaders is about the same day all lower management is shown the door.

KILL SHOT !!! Very, very well put!

 

[Brownslave688]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2898118/elon-musk-teslas-could-drive-themselves-today.html

According to Musk, we’ve solved the problem of self-driving cars. We know what to do. If that’s true, then we only need wait for Moore’s Law—and cameras, and chipmakers like Nvidia—to catch up.


Musk said that Tesla will continue to design for “legacy” drivers, even when cars go fully autonomous. That means including the same structural stability and safety mechanisms to protect the driver in case of a crash with a human-driven vehicle. But, he said, autonomous cars are a “solved problem,” with only the technology standing in the way. And that will be solved in a few years.

 

[HardknocksUPSer]

consider the automated centers, the scanners still make missorts.
Imagine any automation loading package cars and putting stops 15 miles away in all directions!

True, a lot can go wrong when dealing with so much volume and I imagine it will never be perfect.

 

[MendozaJ]

An automated loading system is just not feasible. What would be more practical is a built in scanner in the back of each truck. Even one scanner for a group of four would work, with a simple LED unit that lights green to indicate which truck to enter. There can even be an information screen as to how many packages are remaining for each drop, HIN, car, etc.

 

[rod]

Why would you want to replace the pre-loaders?

 

[throwbackk]

I'll have a flying car before drivers are replaced.

20 years ago if you told car manufactures in Detroit that the cars they put together by hand, would one day all be done by robots they would have laughed in your face. It will happen much sooner than you imagine.

 

[rod]

 

[watdaflock?]

Just a question I'm posing. Do you think robots, or some future organizing system would be put in place that loads the trucks for drivers every morning? Do you think you'd like it better that way without human input?

All of us will be dead before that happens.

 

[McGee]

An automated loading system is just not feasible. What would be more practical is a built in scanner in the back of each truck. Even one scanner for a group of four would work, with a simple LED unit that lights green to indicate which truck to enter. There can even be an information screen as to how many packages are remaining for each drop, HIN, car, etc.

That would be INCREDIBLY expensive, but the screens would replace the load sheets which could save a LOT of paper.