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<blockquote data-quote="Fishbulb" data-source="post: 227975" data-attributes="member: 10981"><p>when I was on TAW & working the preload I would go through everyone's trucks just before driver start time. I would find misloads simply by going through the cars & quickly looking at the labels on each individual package. It sounds time consuming but its really not. I could go through 4 cars in a span of about 8min. On average I would find 5-15 misloads per day With the PAS system it makes it pretty simple(excluding out of sync packages of course) to find a misload. As long as the loader is loading properly(labels out, PAS labels visible) its really not that hard. Obviously in bulk trucks where you cant even walk through its near impossible to find misloads but for the rest of the routes going the misloads could be cut in half if the preloaders were kept on the clock an extra 15min to give a quick scan of their work. It's a pretty common work ethic in most companies to check your work after you've finished, in fact its somthing most of us learned in high school if not earlier. Accidents happen, human error is inevitable but if we keep the 4 or 5 preloaders on the clock for the extra 15min per day instead of sending them home early I think we could cut our misloads in half. In my center they send home about 5-10 preloaders early everyday to cut down on their paycheck. Saves the company money but as i said in my previous post it seems much more cost efficient to pay a preloader for 15-20min extra than to pay a driver that same amount of time, especially if the driver is going to deliver that misload on OT. I think they dont do this because management somewhat considers the preload & the drivers to be 2 seperate entities. Thinking that the preload manager is only concerned with his numbers & the center manager is only concerned with the drivers numbers. Preload manager doesnt want to shell out more money than absolutely necessary to his people because he/she will have to catch hell the next day from his superiors. It seems like a case of upper management not seeing the big picture. Kinda like the way when you're out on a route & one of your pickups tells you they're going to have 4600 pieces that day. Management wont call a feeder driver to handle it because even though he may need ot send 3 other drivers to help with that pickup it will make his numbers look good. Management cant see the big picture, in the end it all equtes to money for UPS but management is so hung up on their numbers game they cant see that. But I cant blame our on car sup's or center manager's for that because its upper management breathing down their necks everyday for numbers. The way I see it upper management has lost all touch with reality & is much to focused on their numbers. Just my opinion...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fishbulb, post: 227975, member: 10981"] when I was on TAW & working the preload I would go through everyone's trucks just before driver start time. I would find misloads simply by going through the cars & quickly looking at the labels on each individual package. It sounds time consuming but its really not. I could go through 4 cars in a span of about 8min. On average I would find 5-15 misloads per day With the PAS system it makes it pretty simple(excluding out of sync packages of course) to find a misload. As long as the loader is loading properly(labels out, PAS labels visible) its really not that hard. Obviously in bulk trucks where you cant even walk through its near impossible to find misloads but for the rest of the routes going the misloads could be cut in half if the preloaders were kept on the clock an extra 15min to give a quick scan of their work. It's a pretty common work ethic in most companies to check your work after you've finished, in fact its somthing most of us learned in high school if not earlier. Accidents happen, human error is inevitable but if we keep the 4 or 5 preloaders on the clock for the extra 15min per day instead of sending them home early I think we could cut our misloads in half. In my center they send home about 5-10 preloaders early everyday to cut down on their paycheck. Saves the company money but as i said in my previous post it seems much more cost efficient to pay a preloader for 15-20min extra than to pay a driver that same amount of time, especially if the driver is going to deliver that misload on OT. I think they dont do this because management somewhat considers the preload & the drivers to be 2 seperate entities. Thinking that the preload manager is only concerned with his numbers & the center manager is only concerned with the drivers numbers. Preload manager doesnt want to shell out more money than absolutely necessary to his people because he/she will have to catch hell the next day from his superiors. It seems like a case of upper management not seeing the big picture. Kinda like the way when you're out on a route & one of your pickups tells you they're going to have 4600 pieces that day. Management wont call a feeder driver to handle it because even though he may need ot send 3 other drivers to help with that pickup it will make his numbers look good. Management cant see the big picture, in the end it all equtes to money for UPS but management is so hung up on their numbers game they cant see that. But I cant blame our on car sup's or center manager's for that because its upper management breathing down their necks everyday for numbers. The way I see it upper management has lost all touch with reality & is much to focused on their numbers. Just my opinion... [/QUOTE]
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