brownmonster
Man of Great Wisdom
I don't care where the pkgs are as long as all of mine are in my truck and none are anyone elses.
I don't care where the pkgs are as long as all of mine are in my truck and none are anyone elses.
I start out with small boxes against the wall and block those in with a bigger / heavier box. I lip load everything. I also write the pal # on the outside of almost every box, including the ones that are up against the wall. I put bigger boxes on the floor and try to put the labels up. Even with the label up, I still write the pal # on the box, big enough where he / she can see it from the door. I try to put the boxes on the floor in seq order too. I have 1 stop that gets 20 to 30 boxes of bullets, weighing 20+ lbs, with a pal # in the 2000 sec. I load it just infront of the RDL stuff. I have 3 totes in the 1000 sec and all my air is in those totes or on the floor. I do whatever it takes to make it easier for my drivers. Maybe thats why my cars are popular right now with routes being up for bid. Ive run the routes I load and see how much easier it is for the driver during the day. Ive run routes where stuff is not labeled, wrong section or just thrown on floor. Manaement doesnt care, as long as its in the trucks and the belt doesnt go off. If they did care, they wouldnt make guys load 4 cars and slam it out the way they do at our center.
Huh? Big gaps? Between sections?
I've never seen any of those at the end of the shift... In my experience, drivers are lucky if they can fit a hand between two packages when they leave the center in the morning-- and that's with the entire floor filled with F1-F4 and rear door packages. I would love to see some gaps, man...
EDIT: "lip loading" is standard too. But, I remember last year I helped on another belt after I was done, and the driver showed up and un-liploaded everything. He said it was a rural route and the packages will end up on the floor if they're lip loaded. Not really sure how that works... but again, it's for the driver to decide.
So your the loader I spend 5 minutes at a stop looking for that cd you slipped BEHIND everything else. Ugh
Would you walk the picket line ORLY!?!?
Because that is what we DO at UPS.....!
Would you walk the picket line ORLY!?!?
I wouldnt, rather to spend the day at home and get some work done. I would enjoy watching the local news coverage of the event here with a ice cold beer in hand, hoping to see someone I know walking it, and saying to that person " hey, I saw you on T.V. so and so day ago.
Btw, the method is called " Corner Stone Loading ". I kindve got on my fulltime about this, claiming that the agreeable contract from the union has nothing in it for " corner stoning packages. ".
And to those that " think " this is flavor of the week/ month, I got news for you. The people from Atlanta have been here for the month, they walk the boxline on and off. One of the top brass walked by on Wensday. There will be more walk-by-fruitings ( as I call them )in the near future. Its only a matter of time until this comes to your building, and the shell game of packages within your car will being. This will lead to " them " saying " well that corner stone loading method was supposed to SAVE you time " and may the write ups insue in massive numbers.
Because that is what we DO at UPS.....!
As I've said before, UPS managements only seemable job is to create problems for you, others and themselves. They create the problem everyday, it causes us to work harder to cure / fix that problem. UPS management are always full of the most highly sought after uncapable walks of life I have ever seen.
Depends if your management team trained you. I had a friend start a few years back. He had a driver tell him after like 3 weeks your doing great but can you at least attempt to lip load the stuff.
While being trained he had never been told anything about lip loading. By trained I mean walked into the truck and told this is your 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8k. Sections fl1,2,3,4 and RDR RDC RDL. Have at it good luck. That was being trained.
I know it's a big company but if this place was actually ran smooth with smart dispatch and no flavor of the months nation wide this company could make 2 billion a quarter.
I know it's a big company but if this place was actually ran smooth with smart dispatch and no flavor of the months nation wide this company could make 2 billion a quarter.
I agree, that and a huge cut / fire amongst their higher management and lower management, whos gonna miss them anyways?
As far as management your next big cuts will be OMS and dispatchers. I see both these spots being filled from a remote location and eventually I see dispatch being completely done by a computer system.
We call it brick loading. Usually reserved for peak season.
It's a huge pain in the ass for drivers. For the first 3-4 hours you fight the load until you finally say screw it and take 30 minutes (minimum) and set the load up right.