Sandy Creek Rd is a side street at 1100 Fulton Industrial Blvd where the new Atlanta Hub is located. And it is a fully automated sorting Hub, so that makes sense.
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Sandy Creek Rd is a side street at 1100 Fulton Industrial Blvd where the new Atlanta Hub is located. And it is a fully automated sorting Hub, so that makes sense.
BigUnionGuy
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There is this troublesome little implement.... that prevents that.
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clean hairy
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Where is the new Dallas building located?
browned_out
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Well I know California is going full throttle on new construction/hub upgrades, we have two new buildings in our Los Angeles area Bell and Compton. They just finished automating Oakland, San Bruno is being worked on now. Cerritos is shutting down there night sort and starting the process to automate. Recently Lathorp was completed, huge new facility in northern California. As a side note lots of new tractors everywhere, all automatics. Kenworth, Freightliners and Internationals.
BrickedLoad
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I30 and Chalk Hill road in west Dallas
clean hairy
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That one has been running for nearly 2 years.
It was operating the past 2 peak seasons.
It was operating the past 2 peak seasons.
rod
Retired 23 years
I-35?
rod
Retired 23 years
I was going to say I-35 has been under construction (still is) for 2 or 3 years now so I was thinking if it was anywhere near that it had to be a cluster .... to get to.
polyp
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The big impact automating our smalls had was simply that we could run more volume through the smalls system. Significantly reduced the amount of peices that should have been inside a nylon but weren't because the infrastructure just wasn't there. Didn't seem to make much of a dent in terms of number of people on payroll, just a few more people cut out each day. The main change was being able to absorb that flow.
Maybe the reductions will come when they get the system to stop building bad bags? It's been a few years though. I'm not optomistic, the whole thing still breaks down every couple of months.
I'm actually kind of looking forward to the automated unload/sort when they finish automating the hub. They've had major problems staffing the associated skilled positions here for ages. No one wants to do it because the building is woefully over capicity.
If I were to guess, projections for the reduction in staffing are going to be frustrated by how overwhelmed some of these older buildings are right now.
brownsugar
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Not sure of address but it is called Alliance. Arlington, I believe, will be near the Independence bldg. which opened a couple of years ago.
dudebro
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We don't really have to cut anybody. We "attrit". If a hub stopped hiring for a year it would be down 75% easily.
brownsugar
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La Mirada is a new bldg for 2019 that will relieve Cerritos. Lots in Northwest too ... Hillsboro, Alderwood, Lynwood, Tacoma, Tualatin.
clean hairy
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The new Arlington facility is off of 20 & Bardin rd.
Rick Ross
I'm into distribution!!
Did your smalls start taking bigger packages after it was automated?
When our hub finished automation, we were told smalls had to run over 50% of the volume to keep the building going. Sometimes smalls is lucky to get 3 packages in a bag because they are so large.
Rick Ross
I'm into distribution!!
I think ours cut people for one reason...too many white shirts from Atlanta we're interested he building and they were trying to impress them.
It seemed pretty foolish to cut that many people the first day, everything was new and we'd had no training.
The new system installed in Forest Park is two long conveyor belts that are made up of hundreds of high-speed small belts that spit the package out to the correct slide/bagging station. There are no tilt/trays like I saw in videos of earlier systems. You still have to have people to feed the main belt and change bags. This had a $7M cost to install, I heard this system was being tested with us before it went into the new Atlanta Hub. During our peak season disaster, the system didn't work right one morning and we were told we left a thousand small sort/SurePost bags in the building.
Catatonic
Nine Lives
Sandy Creek is the boundary of the southern edge of the property.
Sandy Creek flows into the Chattahoochee River, which forms the western boundary.
Address is 1100 Fulton Industrial Blvd.
Note: Google has not updated this area on their maps.
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