ThatOneGuy
New Member
Ok, I wanna start off by saying that I have been reading this forum for a couple of weeks now, and finally gave in and created an account. Something's been eating away at my insides since I was hired as a midnight loader about a month ago. I have been loading trailers for about 3 weeks now, and am extremely concerned. I like physical work, as opposed to working a cash register. I was raised to be a hard worker. Only thing is, I seem to always work a little bit slow, maybe because I've always been a deep thinker. My load quality is always getting better, but at the same time my p/t sup is always on my case about going faster. I am in two semi-low volume trailers at this point, but still get backed up pretty often. I have demonstrated (during actual in-person timing, not the computers) that I can load upwards of 300-380 packages per hour (pph), but I still have a lot of trouble keeping up. I HONESTLY don't know what makes me so slow. I care a lot, and want to be the best loader I can be! Believe me! I show up every day on time and try my darndest. It just seems like the other guys in my PD are so much more on top of their sh**. A couple of them are rarely even in a trailer they are so fast! Then there's me, in my trailers for 75% of the friggin night. I wanna kick some ass. I know some guys are gonna tell me that I'm just not cut out for the job and what not, but I just wanna hear some honest opinions and hopefully recieve a few pointers. Thanks for reading my book-believe me, I wouldn't have written it if I didn't care. Phew...