EmraldArcher
Well-Known Member
Does your operation make you use a sharpie to write the hin of each package on the side of it?
Just got a package the other day. The loader must be on the 'watch' list, as 6570 was in grease pen on the end of the Lands End box.Use grease pencils in my building
Yes. We're all supposed to do it, and drivers here prefer it. It makes specific packages easier to spot.
My belt always has a shortage of sharpies. Luckily, I can go to my old belt and that sup lets me steal theirs.
Getting a brand new sharpie brings a smile to my face. Quite sad... I know.
Actually... I say this based on how I was trained, over a year ago. I have noticed that new hires don't do it as much. It's possible that they're not training people to do this anymore. I don't understand why. It makes loading quicker, especially when you're new. Rather than having to keep looking at PALs over and over to place packages in sequence, you can do it very quickly at a glance if you wrote the number on there to begin with.
Sorry, but this is just too funnyPreloaders in my center use their bloody fingertips.
I used to peel the spa label off while I was walking into the car, and stick it on the front of the box. Never any problems with misloads.
This is the same thing I do. Either face the PAL label on top, outward, or facing the cab; if that can't be done (such as an irreg) I peel it off and slap it on the outside. Having to carry around a pen in my fingers would affect my sorting, my lift/carry and would cost me precious seconds for each box having to stop and write each one down, but to each their own.
This is really off-topic, but Macbrother .... I love the Lunar picture; one of the best RPG's of all time.