TooTechie
Geek in Brown
There are two types of misloads. misloads into feeders and misloads into package cars. misloads into feeders can delay a package 3-6 days if its ground and that's a huge delay. These days with the scanners telling feeder loaders about a misload it is unacceptable to have any misloads.
As for misloads into package cars, ideally preloaders should have scanners too but that would add a huge burden to them as they load multiple trucks and are already pushed too hard in my opinion.
Some preloaders don't understand the on-road ramifications of misloads and packages loaded on the wrong shelves. I'll provide a real world example. I had a next day air thrown on the 7000 shelf of a packed bulked out load the other day. i couldn't get to the 7000 shelf until noon and it resulted in the next day air being over 2 hours late and took me 30 minutes extra minutes each way of driving.
Now, that's bad but only the tip of the iceberg...The air was the biweekly paychecks for an entire dental practice which closes at noon on Fridays. That means that over a dozen people didn't get paid until the following week. Also we can't mark a business as closed in the noon hour so I was forced to take my lunch early and stay there until after 1pm so I could sheet the package.
That means i had to work an hour later, the company had to pay an extra hour of overtime pay plus the time spent digging in the morning and the consignee, a business didn't get their paychecks.
Still think loading errors don't really matter? Even if that had been a ground instead of an air it still would have resulted in all that extra driving and inconvenience to all parties except the loader.
Having missing packages on your truck which are in your diad also take a ton of time as we are searching for them wasting time only to never find them or to have to meet another driver later in the day to get it then backtrack to deliver it. I can't stress enough how important the job you do is to our day. A good loader can literally save us hoursor cost us hours and make our day smooth or unnecessarily difficult.
As for misloads into package cars, ideally preloaders should have scanners too but that would add a huge burden to them as they load multiple trucks and are already pushed too hard in my opinion.
Some preloaders don't understand the on-road ramifications of misloads and packages loaded on the wrong shelves. I'll provide a real world example. I had a next day air thrown on the 7000 shelf of a packed bulked out load the other day. i couldn't get to the 7000 shelf until noon and it resulted in the next day air being over 2 hours late and took me 30 minutes extra minutes each way of driving.
Now, that's bad but only the tip of the iceberg...The air was the biweekly paychecks for an entire dental practice which closes at noon on Fridays. That means that over a dozen people didn't get paid until the following week. Also we can't mark a business as closed in the noon hour so I was forced to take my lunch early and stay there until after 1pm so I could sheet the package.
That means i had to work an hour later, the company had to pay an extra hour of overtime pay plus the time spent digging in the morning and the consignee, a business didn't get their paychecks.
Still think loading errors don't really matter? Even if that had been a ground instead of an air it still would have resulted in all that extra driving and inconvenience to all parties except the loader.
Having missing packages on your truck which are in your diad also take a ton of time as we are searching for them wasting time only to never find them or to have to meet another driver later in the day to get it then backtrack to deliver it. I can't stress enough how important the job you do is to our day. A good loader can literally save us hoursor cost us hours and make our day smooth or unnecessarily difficult.