Christmas 40' Drop-Frame Feeder

[rod]

Paging @rod

That’s the only kind of trailer I remember. Helped unload a few of those and they were a pain.

 

[burrheadd]

UPS no longer has these in the fleet?

Belly would typically be loaded with copy paper type boxes

Had to lift them up about chest high to set on the rollers

If one of those flaps ever fell on you
You were about to have a bad day

 

[iruhnman630]

And a pain in the ass to unload

All heavy in the belly

And head, when unloaders got knocked out by those falling flaps

 

[iruhnman630]

UPS no longer has these in the fleet?

They were eliminated with the last contract.

 

[PT Car Washer]

That’s the only kind of trailer I remember. Helped unload a few of those and they were a pain.

Was that after the 50 lb weight limit increase or the 35 lb weight limit.

 

[DOK]

My first job at UPS was loading these trailers in 1975. I thought they were called "Z or W Frames" or something like that. They had a set of rollers running down the middle with these wooden flaps that would fold down from the side to form a second floor about five feet from the very bottom. It hurt like hell if one of those flaps fell and hit you in the head if you were loading the very bottom of the trailer.

It was like that late 80’s through the 90’s here. These kids nowadays have it easy in the unload. Unloading is the best job on the preload now, used to be the worst.

 

[Indecisi0n]

@rod should know. In the 80's when he was 45 he was collecting these.

 

[PT Car Washer]

It was like that late 80’s through the 90’s here. These kids nowadays have it easy in the unload. Unloading is the best job on the preload now, used to be the worst.

I remember one morning on the preload, early 80's when the PT sup was going to punish me by putting me in the unload. I thought it was great not having a bunch of bitchy drivers to listen to. Only lasted one day.

 

[Box Ox]

And a pain in the ass to unload

All heavy in the belly

Lotta over 70s?

 

[PT Car Washer]

Lotta over 70s?

50 lb weight limit. Remember UPS was a small package delivery carrier. Not a fright company.

 

[Wally]

 

[Box Ox]

50 lb weight limit. Remember UPS was a small package delivery carrier. Not a fright company.

I know. @rod had it pretty rough!

 

[rod]

Was that after the 50 lb weight limit increase or the 35 lb weight limit.

Actually the weight limit was 150 lbs. Try wrestling something like that from the bottom of the trailer up to the built in rollers that were chest high——even with help.

 

[rod]

I know. @rod had it pretty rough!

Rougher than PT car washers

 

[burrheadd]

Lotta over 70s?

This was the good old days pre 0/70

 

[PT Car Washer]

Actually the weight limit was 150 lbs. Try wrestling something like that from the bottom of the trailer up to the built in rollers that were chest high——even with help.

Where are you that UPS had a 150 lb weight limit in the 70's and early 80's? I remember when the weight limit went from 50 lb to 70 lb and all the drivers having a cow about being over worked.

 

[scratch]

It was 50 lbs. when I started in '75. You couldn't ship more than three packages to the same address at one time. It seemed like UPS was still fighting state regulations with I think Texas being the last holdout. UPS had to lobby to get the laws and rules changed that involved trucking and railroad regulations.

 

[specter208]

I remember one morning on the preload, early 80's when the PT sup was going to punish me by putting me in the unload. I thought it was great not having a bunch of bitchy drivers to listen to. Only lasted one day.

Punishment on Preload nowadays is being sent to the modules in the freezing cold and no belt/box line.

 

[rod]

Where are you that UPS had a 150 lb weight limit in the 70's and early 80's? I remember when the weight limit went from 50 lb to 70 lb and all the drivers having a cow about being over worked.

I think 150 came in in the very early 90’s

 

[Old Man Jingles]

My first job at UPS was loading these trailers in 1975. I thought they were called "Z or W Frames" or something like that. They had a set of rollers running down the middle with these wooden flaps that would fold down from the side to form a second floor about five feet from the very bottom. It hurt like hell if one of those flaps fell and hit you in the head if you were loading the very bottom of the trailer.

Z is a flatbed over-the-rail trailer.
W is a 28 ft drop frame.
The 40 ft drop frame was a type 'S'.

Also discussed here:
https://www.browncafe.com/community/threads/have-all-the-drop-frames-been-retired.350927/page-2