Our typical sort is 2.5-3 hours except during peak. We only load two trailers and one package car gets 90% of the next day airs. It has to be loaded by 8:15 to be shutled to a local mall where the driver meets a feeder from another center and they transfer all of our air to the feeder which goes to Louisville. One of the two trailers we load has to be pulled at 9:15. So we have to get all the air off the vans and loaded to be shuttled before 8:15 and then whats left needs to be done before 9:15. When we unload a flatbed full of skids not only is it dangerous but it can really press us for time because of the way our sort is set up with those that trailer and shuttle run. We have 9 people on our shift (unloader, splitter, 2 loaders, smalls, clerk, 2 car washers, clerk). We are usually one man short because one guy is a driver sometimes so we are usually stuck with 8 people. When we get the trailer of skids sometimes the customer counter guy will help unload it depeding on if he is still there or not. The smalls guy is usually pretty busy because he doesnt just do smalls. He has to sort and load the air for the shuttle run and also moves package cars in and out of the building so we can always have one to unload instead of stopping to go find one. Its kind of like a no win situation because sometimes we have enough people to unload the trailer quickly but it never really helps because we never have enough to keep up with the loading. Plus whenever two people unload it the belt starts to slip off and their are sometimes so much wieght on the belt it sputters. We end up having to stop it a bunch of times so the loaders can keep up or because the belt is comming off. One of the trailers doesn't have a belt running to it and is parked up to the dock like a package car. thats the one that gets behind so much. Add the problem of the portable rollers being warped and dangerous to all that and it is just a huge hassle.