Whatever--the fact remains that there is not a preloader in the company that can load nearly 3K pkgs on to 6.5 cars in 4 hours. That works out to 12.5 pkgs per minute. The math doesn't lie.
I can tell you have seen the mall truck when Josh is done! All kidding aside, that is what I was told by the trustee of our local who happens to be a driver that was on the other side of the 6.5 that Katie had to load. I am not saying they didn't receive help, but it was the set-up that morning. And as a former preloader who worked with the current sups, I am not surprised. One girl smaller than me moved up to metro. She had to have her wrists rebuilt. Her last day before she went out on comp, she was at the head of the belt with 6 trucks. The first one was a special for buy-you shoes. 86 boxes bigger than she was weighing '68' lbs( yeah, right!) each. There were 86 pcs. We didn't have a a splitter that day, either.The first truck on the other side of the belt was equal with her 4th truck because of the DA area. So, the guy(6'2 and 220, 4 trucks) couldnt help much splitting. That is our management team. But, I'm sure Upstate will say I'm BS'ing on that, too.12.5 per minute is easy if you never set foot in the package car and just fling everything towards the general area of whatever shelf the PAL label says to put it on.
The very first thing I would have done when I got on the belt and saw that pkg was to take it right back out and send it down for a re-wrap. There is no way that the consignee would have seen that pkg nor would I have attempted delivery.
I have delivered some banged up packages before but that is ridiculous. If that was my customer he would have never saw that (from me at least).
I sheeted the package as "missed" and brought it back that night for rewrap. I never intended to deliver it in that condition; the frustrating part for me was having to deal with it and work around it all morning. The car was too full for me to get to it before I left, so I had no choice but to lug it around and fight with it until I had room under a shelf.
These add/cuts that don't find their proper cars should absolutely be on the loader. If the shelves were loaded even remotely adequate, these packages can be found and routed to right car. Smalls that are assigned a 8500 or above HIN that are so carelessly thrown onto shelf they are now in the 4700 area. It seems the only time my loader does the right thing by covering an 8000 sec irreg with a RDL or FL4, the pkg should have been moved. Otherwise I'm sliding it around for an hour or 2.
As for out of syncs or flips, the loaders are instructed to check every 10 packages for PAL/ address label match. So my truck with an avg of 250 pieces should have 25 packages checked. I can see how this can easily become 10 or lower.
To answer the OP's question, the loader does not get in trouble for misloads(off routes), once it's on the truck it is now the driver's problem.