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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1405491" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>My building has used PODS and pup trailers in this manner for the last few years.</p><p></p><p>They do help, but they aren't all they are cracked up to be. Someone still has to drive out and unload the packages into the PODS. There are no shelves in the PODS so everything winds up in a big, random pile on the ground. There are no lights in the PODS so after about 4:30 you are mucking around that big random pile of boxes in the dark. And drivers who have been conditioned to be totally dependent upon PAS/EDD or ORION to line up their stops are often totally incapable of coping with having to line up a random pile of stops into some sort of deliverable order by themselves when they don't have area knowledge, a manifest or an accurate EDD to show them what stops are actually in that POD. Turning a random pile of 50 or 100 boxes on the ground into a properly sequenced load in your package car takes longer than you might think, especially when you are holding a flashlight in your mouth and you don't necessarily know what sequence numbers or even which route(s) have been dumped in there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1405491, member: 14668"] My building has used PODS and pup trailers in this manner for the last few years. They do help, but they aren't all they are cracked up to be. Someone still has to drive out and unload the packages into the PODS. There are no shelves in the PODS so everything winds up in a big, random pile on the ground. There are no lights in the PODS so after about 4:30 you are mucking around that big random pile of boxes in the dark. And drivers who have been conditioned to be totally dependent upon PAS/EDD or ORION to line up their stops are often totally incapable of coping with having to line up a random pile of stops into some sort of deliverable order by themselves when they don't have area knowledge, a manifest or an accurate EDD to show them what stops are actually in that POD. Turning a random pile of 50 or 100 boxes on the ground into a properly sequenced load in your package car takes longer than you might think, especially when you are holding a flashlight in your mouth and you don't necessarily know what sequence numbers or even which route(s) have been dumped in there. [/QUOTE]
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