P-Man
I agree these all seem like good things as well. The problem is good things often can easily be twisted and contorted (sometimes unintentionally). This occurs when people do not get the big picture and miss certain little things that actually add up to a lot.
PAS was (and is) a great idea on paper and works well in many centers, but in some small, but important ways, we've made it harder on the preloader.
Also we we're told its faster than the old way, but at least in our center pulling the PAL and facing it toward the driver was an approved method and we (myself included as I was a preloader for a bit myself) did some basic math to figure just how much that adds to a preloader's day. 1000 pkgs (the norm at the time) x 1-3 seconds (to pull a PAL) equals approx. 20-50 min more time to do the job than previously. However they don't get that time factored into their planned PPH because its not an official corporate method I don't believe. Also pulling add/cuts (a big problem at our center recently as add/cuts have gone through the roof) is another thing that preloaders do that they do not get credit for, some picks move as many as 100 or more packages due to add/cuts and the preloader has to stop loading and search for (eventually). I don't believe they get credit for that either. Granted now those 1-3 seconds per package go to reading those new magenta imprinter labels lol, and then writing the sequence in crayon haha so I guess it still kind of applies even though we no longer use PALs for the most part
For a company where seconds mean everything, how could nobody catch these oversights? We were told it takes no extra time when it obviously does. Granted this wasn't really a twist, more like an oversight, but you see where I'm going. After all the horror stories I've heard on here, I'm becoming convinced that Telematics was twisted as well. I was under the impression it was to improve safety, not performance goals. Thats how it was pitched to me anyway (though I had apprehensions about how it would actually be used), but on here we see that someone has figured out how to twist it.
The point is, people fear all changes here because they are not always good in practice (in general, not saying in this instance with the DIADs), though the intention was there when initially created.