Well she said I have to take a test for itIf you are a new employee...and i'm guessing you are...you don't get to pick and choose where you want to work. You are told what to do..and will probably be bounced around a lot.![]()
Over 70's go to the irreg belt down at your feet. Only time it is a workout is when you get a hotshot unloader. Even then you get a break when you switch trailers.
In my hub we get lots of "68lbs" boxes coming down the belts that are at least 80lbs. There are also a lot of very bulky but not necessarily heavy packages that are virtually guaranteed to cause a jam or three during their journey.They try to get everything possible down the belts during the shift. Pretty much the only thing that gets left for the end are stupidly large boxes and over-70 sets of tires.
In my hub we get lots of "68lbs" boxes coming down the belts that are at least 80lbs. There are also a lot of very bulky but not necessarily heavy packages that are virtually guaranteed to cause a jam or three during their journey.
The building I work out of is a small hub with 2 delivery centers. Run a day sort, twi sort and midnight sort along with a preload operation.Yeah, same. Hearing "IRREG!" and "JAM ON BLUE/YELLOW/RED/WHITE!" go hand-in-hand in my building.
The only reason I can see why we do it this way is because we're a smaller center than a typical UPS operation. I don't think the volume would justify an irreg belt, to be honest, but I'm sure it'd make preload go a bit more smoothly every morning if we had one.
you don't have separate belts for irregs and overweights?That might be the difference. I'm just at a stand-alone center. The main hub we get our work from isn't even in-state, lol.
But hey, maybe I'm just talking out of my ass because I've only been on the sort aisle maybe 10 times, I dunno. I just know that irregs get pushed through the center ASAP, not sent down a special belt-- why it's done like that is beyond me, because we've definitely got a belt for smalls and post office bags. Might be a good question for me to ask someone on Tuesday...
That might be part of it. We have a ton of irregs that get brought around the hub for loading, but a lot of packages that should be on those carts end up on the belts. I don't know for sure but I suspect it's a sup on the unload/inside sort trying to keep their numbers good. I'm in a hub with over 100 outbound bays and 25+ unloading bays so maybe this issue effects the medium to large size facilities more.Yeah, same. Hearing "IRREG!" and "JAM ON BLUE/YELLOW/RED/WHITE!" go hand-in-hand in my building.
The only reason I can see why we do it this way is because we're a smaller center than a typical UPS operation. I don't think the volume would justify an irreg belt, to be honest, but I'm sure it'd make preload go a bit more smoothly every morning if we had one.
Definitely better then loading. I know guys in their 50's that work the sort aisle, but no one that old loading trailers.She want me to take the test for sort so ill do it some guy was like it beat loading trailers lmao