nightshiftscottie
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What a lot of others have said--don't talk while loading. If someone comes up to you, STOP, hang on to the package, and have the conversation, then go back to loading.
I think Sober has the right idea. Let's slow things down a bit for the preloader. I'm not a business owner, but I have some common sense. Let's break it down to one pull.
This is our business. One preloader making $9.50/hour, 4 package cars to load that get about 10 miles/ gallon at $2.50, using drivers making 29.13/hour.
Under the current system the preloader is forced to rush and finish his pull in X amount of hours and is NEVER allowed to go over 5 hours because that would spell OT at $14.25/ hour for a short time (10-20 min.). Under this system, he/she can't check both the PAL and address, look at the load chart verifying the load and then write with a crayon the load name and HIN #. If she were allowed to do this it would eliminate 99% of misloads.
Let's say you need to give the preloader an extra 15 minutes at a cost of $2.35 to do it this way. It will hurt the preload numbers but will help our little "1 pull" business tremendously and I will explain.
My car gets misloads everyday. Its always more than one and as high as 5. Multiply that by 4 cars and we have 8-20 potentially unserviced packages/day. Right there the pre-load $2.35 savings is made negligible.
Lets take the low number of 8 and cut it in half to be ultra conservative. If we generate $5 in revenue from each parcel(I'm guessing ) we will lose $20 in revenue from the misloads if the driver doesn't deliver them.
Right here our pull is losing $17.65 by hurrying the preloader off the clock. However, it gets more complicated because UPS' reputation is at stake for delivering packages on time and I can't assign a price to that.
Most times, drivers are directed to deliver misloads. Most times it takes me 15 minutes at a minimum to break trace at the closest point to the misload and get back. Multiply that by two and its .5 hours of OT labor of $43/hour or $21.50 plus fuel to gain $20 in revenue.
In either case, each driver solution appears futile for our little example business.
I just have one question for the people that really know the numbers. Why not just slow down the preload a little when you are only paying them $9.50/hour? Why solve the problem with drivers making the deliveries at $43/hour plus fuel costs?
The preload business goal must get flushed down the toilet once a NDA gets misloaded?
I'm just asking here...
ok after preloading for 8 years let me lend a few bits of info here...
With the PAL system, we have misloads happening every day that would have never, ever occurred if the loaders were looking at the real label on the package.
I'm just curious what people do in other buildings to avoid misloads? Don't tell me read the label lol, I know that much. This is more for preloaders, I'm just curious what works for you guys. I have guys using the crayons and using the first letter of the PAL (provided they're all different). It was working great, but seems to be slipping a little lately. Granted pickoff thats been having issues has been getting slammed lately, but I'd still like to help him out.
Our dispatch supe also seems to be doing it smart (having neighboring routes loaded together for the most part) and I think that helps alleviate some of the packages not making service, but thats kind of just a safety net.