Paper !!!!!!

[ski or die]

Some of the driver's in our center driving the rural areas would stop in town and leave the package's at a location in town and phone the customer to let them know so they would could come and pick it up. The drivers' had a good relationship with their customers so they were able to do this without any complaints. It saved them quite a bit of time and having to drive on the rural roads. Can't do that now with the technology.

 

[Covemastah]

Could hold on to a pkg few days and get the stop and deliver when consignee got back from vaca !! It was like a free stop for a few days. Lol

 

[Covemastah]

You could also slap the yellow rts label on a pkg, throw in with your pickups and poooof. It's gone!!

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

You could also slap the yellow rts label on a pkg, throw in with your pickups and poooof. It's gone!!

No!!

 

[FrigidFTSup]

Some of the driver's in our center driving the rural areas would stop in town and leave the package's at a location in town and phone the customer to let them know so they would could come and pick it up. The drivers' had a good relationship with their customers so they were able to do this without any complaints. It saved them quite a bit of time and having to drive on the rural roads. Can't do that now with the technology.

Our rural route guys still do this without a problem.

Question for you older guys. Back in the day when it wasn't automated, how did preloaders know what to put in your cars? Were they just trained to know the areas and grabbed them off the belt?

I find this thread fascinating.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Our rural route guys still do this without a problem.

Question for you older guys. Back in the day when it wasn't automated, how did preloaders know what to put in your cars? Were they just trained to know the areas and grabbed them off the belt?

I find this thread fascinating.

Load chart.

 

[MyTripisCut]

Load chart.

And brains

 

[FrigidFTSup]

Load chart.

Ah didn't think of that.

 

[FrigidFTSup]

And brains

We call those "smart scanners" now.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Ah didn't think of that.

That's how they did it.

 

[FrigidFTSup]

That's how they did it.

I think my center manager would just burn the building down now if we had to go back to that. Majority of our preload has been hired in the last 6 months. They can't even load cars with PALs.

 

[MyTripisCut]

I think my center manager would just burn the building down now if we had to go back to that. Majority of our preload has been hired in the last 6 months. They can't even load cars with PALs.

Glad to see this problem is not just my center.

 

[Johney]

A 2130 trailer pull would be like a wet dream in my center. 1900 here.

What do you have one trailer? Jesus most our feeder group starts after 20:00. We have one guy who pulls a set close to 22:00.

 

[FrigidFTSup]

What do you have one trailer? Jesus most our feeder group starts after 20:00. We have one guy who pulls a set close to 22:00.

Two outbound trailers, one local. We're just a small center. Only one feeder run.

 

[Ecw21411]

This.

I actually preferred the rural routes, because once you learned the way the mail carrier ran it, it was really rather easy. After that, it was only a matter of asking around for the lanes with 4 or 5 houses and the mailboxes at the end.

I also kept a card file with cust names and directions

 

[thecamel]

And no one cried,,, we knew the job, and what was expected of us ,,, it all came with the territory

Unfortunately some people did and do continue to cry. Funny thing is even now they will not retire. They (the criers) are well taken care of here.

 

[PASinterference]

I think my center manager would just burn the building down now if we had to go back to that. Majority of our preload has been hired in the last 6 months. They can't even load cars with PALs.

We had a driver sort and load for my first 8 yrs of driving. We are ultra rural so it wasn't that bad....Got home at a decent time. Then we went preload after the strike. Out of spite IMO. The guys that set up the preload admitted it didn't make sense.

 

[sox]

038598 every 15th stop or so and a long lunch

 

[Ms.PacMan]

Load chart.

And they hung a paper at the back of the truck and made hash marks for your stop count. They'd/we'd ride them about being accurate - and they were remarkably accurate considering that they were reading and loading 2 or 3 trucks.

Days that they were buried though, you would come in and they would have lost track of your count. I think that's why older drivers have an uncanny ability to look at their truck and just know how long their day will be.

Blue cards....

 

[FrigidFTSup]

We had a driver sort and load for my first 8 yrs of driving. We are ultra rural so it wasn't that bad....Got home at a decent time. Then we went preload after the strike. Out of spite IMO. The guys that set up the preload admitted it didn't make sense.

I know there is a center in the district that still does a driver sort and load. Very small though. I don't think they even have 10 routes.