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<blockquote data-quote="8Keys" data-source="post: 1178095" data-attributes="member: 48236"><p>It is kind of a difficult question because there are a lot of possibilities as to when and what you would do. On any shift other than preload, you would probably either unload trailers or load trailers. Loading is a bit more involved but both are hard work where supervisors will be pushing you to go as fast as possible. Loaders will end up getting a bit more time than unloaders in my experience. It is hard to explain, but in the areas where trailers are loaded, certain trailers will get way too many packages coming to keep up and long after everything has been unloaded someone will still be loading those blown up trailers. That wrap up time would result in a few extra hours a week for some of the loaders. Higher seniority workers would be entitled to stay the longest but a lot of times they just want to go home as fast as possible. The sorts can start at different times throughout the week as the company tries to maximize efficiency (breaking your back) by having later start times when there is less work to do. It is hard to say which sort would give you the most hours. Our day sort tends to work less than the other sorts, but that might be specific to this hub. I used to work about 25 hours a week loading on night sort, with some overtime mixed in for nights over 5 hours. But in some cases you might be luck to get 20 hours a week.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="8Keys, post: 1178095, member: 48236"] It is kind of a difficult question because there are a lot of possibilities as to when and what you would do. On any shift other than preload, you would probably either unload trailers or load trailers. Loading is a bit more involved but both are hard work where supervisors will be pushing you to go as fast as possible. Loaders will end up getting a bit more time than unloaders in my experience. It is hard to explain, but in the areas where trailers are loaded, certain trailers will get way too many packages coming to keep up and long after everything has been unloaded someone will still be loading those blown up trailers. That wrap up time would result in a few extra hours a week for some of the loaders. Higher seniority workers would be entitled to stay the longest but a lot of times they just want to go home as fast as possible. The sorts can start at different times throughout the week as the company tries to maximize efficiency (breaking your back) by having later start times when there is less work to do. It is hard to say which sort would give you the most hours. Our day sort tends to work less than the other sorts, but that might be specific to this hub. I used to work about 25 hours a week loading on night sort, with some overtime mixed in for nights over 5 hours. But in some cases you might be luck to get 20 hours a week. [/QUOTE]
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