The Official Preload Bashing Thread

[Big Package]

Also call BS on preloading 1500 pieces a day. How many hours of OT did you get every day?

2h yesterday and 1.5h the rest of the week here. 1350 on 5 cars and some change in the pup car and smart scan. It's hard but can be done. Some people get 1000 in 3 cars I feel worse for them.

 

[Jkloc420]

2h yesterday and 1.5h the rest of the week here. 1350 on 5 cars and some change in the pup car and smart scan. It's hard but can be done. Some people get 1000 in 3 cars I feel worse for them.

which one did you stack out

 

[Big Package]

The pup. Can all be scanned at once and doesn't have to be loaded by HIN.

 

[Jkloc420]

The pup. Can all be scanned at once and doesn't have to be loaded by HIN.

no way

 

[Big Package]

I've been doing that pull about 5 months now. When you communicate with drivers it makes loads easier. It's not as if package 1001 or 8999 are going to go somewhere they don't normally go. I am lucky in that the person ahead of me and person behind me work with me (and I with them), and that one car is a mall / post office load and has 6 HIN's. It's not hard to be a fast and efficient loader. There's also no point lying on the internet. It's possible you just gotta want it bad enough and find workarounds. The pup I keep totes and hang a smalls bag at the beginning of the set. We have ample room under the belt & guy behind me helps stack 50 piece bulk RDR/L/C on our extension.

 

[Wally]

I'm still assuming it's in your contract. I guess everyone has just thrown in the towel and are afraid to push. That's why all of you are delivering them, without help. After pushing, threats in the office, and letters - we agreed every morning I would go out to my car and point out the over 70 lbs packages. They pulled them all off my car, every morning. I didn't deliver them for years. I was the only one in my building who didn't deliver them, as far as I know. Guess what they did with those packages? They gave the packages to drivers who wouldn't say anything and just deliver them. Those drivers would normally say something like; Aahh, it's not so bad.
You and the preloader handled that package wrong.

I can't remember last when anybody from the union said anything about over 70s?

 

[Rack em]

I can't remember last when anybody from the union said anything about over 70s?

Over 70s? We should be talking about over 100s!!! I had a 148lbs, 6 foot mattress to deliver yesterday. I was about to roll the dumb thing up this ladies driveway but she came out in a hurry and told me not to roll it because her driveway was wet from melting snow and she didn't want the mattress to get ruined. Then she wasn't even strong enough to even help me team lift the thing. So I left it at the beginning of her driveway for her poor husband to deal with. She asked if I was able to come back when her husband got home because he wouldn't be able to get it up the stairs by himself LOL. I don't understand why people order this big heavy stuff and don't have any plans on how to get it in their house! I wanted to tell her she should have gone to a mattress store because they are actual furniture movers.

 

[Wally]

Over 70s? We should be talking about over 100s!!! I had a 148lbs, 6 foot mattress to deliver yesterday. I was about to roll the dumb thing up this ladies driveway but she came out in a hurry and told me not to roll it because her driveway was wet from melting snow and she didn't want the mattress to get ruined. Then she wasn't even strong enough to even help me team lift the thing. So I left it at the beginning of her driveway for her poor husband to deal with. She asked if I was able to come back when her husband got home because he wouldn't be able to get it up the stairs by himself LOL. I don't understand why people order this big heavy stuff and don't have any plans on how to get it in their house! I wanted to tell her she should have gone to a mattress store because they are actual furniture movers.

I wonder how good those things are?

 

[Rack em]

I wonder how good those things are?

I hope they're top notch so I don't get a call tag to go pick the damn thing up!

 

[wayfair]

I hope they're top notch so I don't get a call tag to go pick the damn thing up!

Good luck on them trying to get that damned thing back in the box!!

 

[Wally]

I hope they're top notch so I don't get a call tag to go pick the damn thing up!

Yea, Good luck getting it back in the box! Lol They expand when opened.

 

[Rack em]

Yea, Good luck getting it back in the box! Lol They expand when opened.

Yeah it looked like the thing was vacuum sealed. I don't see any way anyone is getting one back in the flimsy ass box they came in.

 

[Big Package]

Had some kind of massive farm implement awhile back. I'm pretty sure it's the attachment that allows extra pieces of equipment on tractors. It took 4 of our best men to get it off the dock and around the building. They find out that it won't fit in a car. The label said 136 pounds. They broke out this industrial scale. I told my supervisor that it was probably kilograms when we tried unloading it. I test it and laugh and say I want no part of that mess. Turns out these guys were hauling a 300 pound farm implement around the building and nobody at any point thought it was wrong.

 

[DumbTruckDriver]

Had some kind of massive farm implement awhile back. I'm pretty sure it's the attachment that allows extra pieces of equipment on tractors. It took 4 of our best men to get it off the dock and around the building. They find out that it won't fit in a car. The label said 136 pounds. They broke out this industrial scale. I told my supervisor that it was probably kilograms when we tried unloading it. I test it and laugh and say I want no part of that mess. Turns out these guys were hauling a 300 pound farm implement around the building and nobody at any point thought it was wrong.

Many years ago we had a gun safe come through our building. Can't recall the weight, but I think it was close to 400 lbs.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Many years ago we had a gun safe come through our building. Can't recall the weight, but I think it was close to 400 lbs.

How does your building handle a situation like this? Ours will call the customer and have them come pick it up and will RTS it if the customer is unwilling or unable to do so.

 

[DumbTruckDriver]

How does your building handle a situation like this? Ours will call the customer and have them come pick it up and will RTS it if the customer is unwilling or unable to do so.

I think it somehow got on the truck and to the customer.

 

[Shift Inhibit]

The walking distance does makes it more difficult.

The bottom line is they don't give the new hires (pkg car loaders) proper/adequate training.. because the pt sups who do the training don't know how to properly load a car either.. most sups at my hub loaded for 30 working days then went mngmt..that's why I quit getting upset about my loads .. if u come across a quality loader , it's a bonus but they are few & far between..

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

The bottom line is they don't give the new hires (pkg car loaders) proper/adequate training.. because the pt sups who do the training don't know how to properly load a car either.. most sups at my hub loaded for 30 working days then went mngmt..that's why I quit getting upset about my loads .. if u come across a quality loader , it's a bonus but they are few & far between..

"You don't have to know how to load 'em to not be able to tell others how to properly load 'em."

 

[Shift Inhibit]

"You don't have to know how to load 'em to not be able to tell others how to properly load 'em."

Telling vs knowing/showing = night & day differences

 

[Wally]