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<blockquote data-quote="Island" data-source="post: 1294490" data-attributes="member: 42417"><p>Mesquite is a regional feeder hub that also runs a huge delivery operation. If Day sort works enough to employ two shifts of part-timers, and the hub were a small private shipping company, they'd probably break that up into two-part time shifts but allow people to go officially full-time over both or temporarily doubleshift if the situation is going to change (which it will, when the new buildings in the area are complete). I didn't intend this to be any kind of send-up for the union or the company, just an anecdote.</p><p></p><p>I'm not sure that you, Photog, understand how badly Mesquite is run. A manager over there killed himself and had intended to take out his DM with him. Mesquite was on national news during peak for being the worst shipping failure in recent memory. The fact is that our region has grown so much, with all the suburban sprawl around our metroplex, that Mesquite can't handle the volume anymore. Too much meat is being shoved into the grinder, it's getting jammed and no one's able to eat their hamburgers. The volume is going to be offset by new buildings but they aren't ready yet. The sad thing is that the company knew this was going to happen probably a year ago and waited for this colossal failure before they finally started construction.</p><p>In my experience, regional air and feeder hubs that sort volume for half the country <em>all</em> use sunrise, day, twilight and midnight shifts, due to the itinerant nature of airplane and long-distance feeder arrivals. It is easier to have someone unload it when it arrives than to park and wait for a shift that doesn't happen until later that day. Continual operation means efficiency. In 767 to my knowledge the examples would be DFW, the major regional air hub, and Mesquite, the major regional feeder hub. Both use shifts that happen pretty much all day long, and always have, even when volume numbers didn't really require it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Island, post: 1294490, member: 42417"] Mesquite is a regional feeder hub that also runs a huge delivery operation. If Day sort works enough to employ two shifts of part-timers, and the hub were a small private shipping company, they'd probably break that up into two-part time shifts but allow people to go officially full-time over both or temporarily doubleshift if the situation is going to change (which it will, when the new buildings in the area are complete). I didn't intend this to be any kind of send-up for the union or the company, just an anecdote. I'm not sure that you, Photog, understand how badly Mesquite is run. A manager over there killed himself and had intended to take out his DM with him. Mesquite was on national news during peak for being the worst shipping failure in recent memory. The fact is that our region has grown so much, with all the suburban sprawl around our metroplex, that Mesquite can't handle the volume anymore. Too much meat is being shoved into the grinder, it's getting jammed and no one's able to eat their hamburgers. The volume is going to be offset by new buildings but they aren't ready yet. The sad thing is that the company knew this was going to happen probably a year ago and waited for this colossal failure before they finally started construction. In my experience, regional air and feeder hubs that sort volume for half the country [i]all[/i] use sunrise, day, twilight and midnight shifts, due to the itinerant nature of airplane and long-distance feeder arrivals. It is easier to have someone unload it when it arrives than to park and wait for a shift that doesn't happen until later that day. Continual operation means efficiency. In 767 to my knowledge the examples would be DFW, the major regional air hub, and Mesquite, the major regional feeder hub. Both use shifts that happen pretty much all day long, and always have, even when volume numbers didn't really require it. [/QUOTE]
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