Added Truck Doohickies

[FozziesDeliveries]

What are these things? They added them to all of our trucks. The one part time sup said security told him they were for better tracking. There are 3 on the truck so i guess that works as a theory for triangulation. idk i was just curious if anyone else has them in their center and if anyone knew what they were.

 

[KearsargeCoop]

RFID scanners. Will scan smart barcode to help eliminate misload. Supposedly

 

[FozziesDeliveries]

RFID scanners. Will scan smart barcode to help eliminate misload. Supposedly

Ok. I heard a rumor our center was getting that but wasn't sure cause we are smaller. When the part time said the tracking thing i was like...

 

[KearsargeCoop]

Ok. I heard a rumor our center was getting that but wasn't sure cause we are smaller. When the part time said the tracking thing i was like...
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Our district manager told us one center is using them, the other ones hope to be live by June

 

[Red Headed Stranger]

We have had them since last year. Shortly after mounting those devices to the package cars, they had the people working preload use a scanner mounted to a wrist/hand strap. The wrist/hand bracelets with the scanners were later discontinued and now the PT sups use a "wand" that is supposed to find misloads in the package cars.

 

[KearsargeCoop]

We have had them since last year. Shortly after mounting those devices to the package cars, they had the people working preload use a scanner mounted to a wrist/hand strap. The wrist/hand bracelets with the scanners were later discontinued and now the PT sups use a "wand" that is supposed to find misloads in the package cars.

Has it worked?

 

[Ghost in the Darkness]

My loader told me last week they won't be using the hand scanners anymore, UPS doesn't want to buy the chip pal labels that work with them.

 

[Sissy Brown Short Shorts]

Second times a charm. They wasted how many hundreds of millions on those stupid things they drilled into the shelves that you whack your elbow on making loaders wear those finger scanners. Our building used them for about a month and gave up on it.

 

[Sixth Punch Sense]

Has it worked?

We've had them for about 6 months, the answer is yes and no. I rarely have a misload in my car but I have a bad pal misload in my car regularly.

The spa machine runs slower than the previous one so when the packages come through a pal will regularly get on the wrong package. The first couple of weeks I'd get 7 bad pals a day, now it's a couple a week. We don't run bad pal's unless it makes sense. The clerk has a bad pal cart

 

[KearsargeCoop]

We've had them for about 6 months, the answer is yes and no. I rarely have a misload in my car but I have a bad pal misload in my car regularly.

The spa machine runs slower than the previous one so when the packages come through a pal will regularly get on the wrong package. The first couple of weeks I'd get 7 bad pals a day, now it's a couple a week. We don't run bad pal's unless it makes sense. The clerk has a bad pal cart

That's interesting, the bad pal cart. Definitely gotta be some learning curve.

 

[Commercial Inside Release]

@badpal it's all his doing. If you hear banjo music, a bad pal will turn up.

 

[eats packages]

We've had them for about 6 months, the answer is yes and no. I rarely have a misload in my car but I have a bad pal misload in my car regularly.

The spa machine runs slower than the previous one so when the packages come through a pal will regularly get on the wrong package. The first couple of weeks I'd get 7 bad pals a day, now it's a couple a week. We don't run bad pal's unless it makes sense. The clerk has a bad pal cart

I was a big fan of them for the 5 or more years we used them.
My philosophy is, if you don't dumb it down to *that* level, you'd better cut the dispatch crap and go back to looking at addresses and loading by sequence. Spa without the scanners sucks, it's just downright annoying. Being strapped like Barney was way better, this was especially true with rapidly degrading sequence numbers from "virtual" studies and a screw-you amount of add-cuts, then there are bad spa and flips.

 

[eats packages]

I am going to assume Diad 6 does not have the rfid "wand" capability. Like we wanted years ago when rumors started on them. So realistically they are just another preload harassment tool under the guise of misload metrics.

It's crazy how much stuff now we have in trial that has almost no software utilization. We also have dimension scanners on the unload belts and believe also weight, don't see that data getting used anywhere.

 

[Fido]

We have had them since last year. Shortly after mounting those devices to the package cars, they had the people working preload use a scanner mounted to a wrist/hand strap. The wrist/hand bracelets with the scanners were later discontinued and now the PT sups use a "wand" that is supposed to find misloads in the package cars.

Sounds like a job a union member should do

 

[SorryLazyPOS]

My loader told me last week they won't be using the hand scanners anymore, UPS doesn't want to buy the chip pal labels that work with them.

smells like a big waste of money.

 

[Red Headed Stranger]

Has it worked?

I'll give you three guesses....and the first two don't count!

 

[UnionStrong]

I'll give you three guesses....and the first two don't count!

 

[I have NOT been lurking]

Sounds like a job a union member should do

No. You caused the preloaders to scan AND load and make it harder while complaining we're too slow

 

[Fido]

No. You caused the preloaders to scan AND load and make it harder while complaining we're too slow

I’m a driver I didn’t cause
I don’t care how slow my loader is or gets
Just give a damn and think when you load

 

[pkgdriver]

I was a big fan of them for the 5 or more years we used them.
My philosophy is, if you don't dumb it down to *that* level, you'd better cut the dispatch crap and go back to looking at addresses and loading by sequence. Spa without the scanners sucks, it's just downright annoying. Being strapped like Barney was way better, this was especially true with rapidly degrading sequence numbers from "virtual" studies and a screw-you amount of add-cuts, then there are bad spa and flips.

with rapidly degrading sequence numbers from "virtual" studies

Please elaborate. Im kinda slow.