The Official Preload Bashing Thread

[lolbr]

I had about 825 pieces across 3 trucks, one of them small. Just me and Jessica Simpson out there busting our butts.

825 pieces... I've had single package cars with more than that on peak. Average day for me when I was on preload was 1300-1500 pieces on 4-5 cars depending on where they stuck me. That is with a half hour helping the slide and running a lot of the irregs. I think the worst was that day I had 4800 packages for 5 cars.

 

[Rack em]

825 pieces... I've had single package cars with more than that on peak. Average day for me when I was on preload was 1300-1500 pieces on 4-5 cars depending on where they stuck me. That is with a half hour helping the slide and running a lot of the irregs. I think the worst was that day I had 4800 packages for 5 cars.

Yeah and I once caught a 60 pound walleye with just a paper clip and a shoe string.

 

[eats packages]

I load 5 cars with an average of 1k packages a day (lately 1200). COMMERCIAL ROUTES. I beast my out but I dont know how much longer my body can hold up been here 7 months thats 140,000 packages that have sifted through my hands and my loads are CLEAN but somehow I feel like this is all for not. Tell me theres light at the end of the tunnel? Is my effort recognized and I get a juice route? Or does the lazy 3 drops down get a better work/life balance and im guaranteed to be used by the company? I need some " upliftment" here.

There are crazier assignments, One business section I load here gets an extra car and becomes 1350 pieces across 4 cars (one a little p600). I have nothing to say other than to watch your back. If you forget and start bending down to pick up heavy packages for just a few minutes it will hurt tomorrow (and forever).

 

[wayfair]

what's the common wrist injury????

 

[UnconTROLLed]

118lbs bed frame loaded right on top of a bulk stop for a flower shop today. All ruined.

Hopefully the bed frame is okay

 

[lolbr]

Yeah and I once caught a 60 pound walleye with just a paper clip and a shoe string.

You think I'm joking, but two drivers called in sick two days in a row during peak. Both worked the same loop. Management let the trucks just sit in the hub all day. They then got unloaded and re-sorted with new pals, but dispatch didn't rearrange the routes. Second day, the same thing. Third day I had to load only up to 4999 on the two cars. The rest was sorted into large bags behind the cars, which eventually went on a rental box truck that was left in a parking lot so the drivers could get more when they made room.

Needless to say. it was three or four more days of large loads on those trucks before they caught back up and didn't have to bring stuff back due to 14 hour limit.

 

[UnconTROLLed]

I load 5 cars with an average of 1k packages a day (lately 1200). COMMERCIAL ROUTES. I beast my out but I dont know how much longer my body can hold up been here 7 months thats 140,000 packages that have sifted through my hands and my loads are CLEAN but somehow I feel like this is all for not. Tell me theres light at the end of the tunnel? Is my effort recognized and I get a juice route? Or does the lazy 3 drops down get a better work/life balance and im guaranteed to be used by the company? I need some " upliftment" here.

how many add/cuts, are you helping with bulk, etc.? It's really all the extraneous time off of your pull that will cause you to sink or swim. If you aren't wasting time spinning your wheels doing 5 pages 80 pc. add cuts and so on, it's doable and shouldn't be terrible.

I have been on both sides of this - completed pulls that were easily 1100-1300 mostly commercial and when NOT off of the pull for extended periods, it's not a bad wrap most of the time.

 

[Wally]

 

[BakerMayfield2018]

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Lol

 

[el blanco]

I've got many pictures of these so called "unsafe loads" Management doesn't care when you show them. Once it's out the door it's your problem now. They just got on me because my over allowed was getting too high when i'm normally a close to scratch driver. I gripped for months that the route was being over dispatched, too much work. Never got through to them.

did u get the thousand yard stare when u complained

 

[burrheadd]

825 pieces... I've had single package cars with more than that on peak. Average day for me when I was on preload was 1300-1500 pieces on 4-5 cars depending on where they stuck me. That is with a half hour helping the slide and running a lot of the irregs. I think the worst was that day I had 4800 packages for 5 cars.

 

[MisplacedRailWorker]

Apparently my route is named STEAL FROM ME.

I’m an off the street hire with a Class-A license, with 10 days in towards qualifying. These 10 days had been problematic. A high-end fashion retailer averages ~100 pieces daily to their return center. Some are airs (this I’ll never understand). The airs I paid my preloader $10 daily to put in a crate. This he did do.

He also went the extra mile and lightened my load by approximately 5 pieces a day, taking the hoodies home and selling them to friends. Keep in mind these retail for $150 average.

All the while I’m looking, looking, dismantling the truck while my training sup (great guy, served in the Marines God bless him) shouts “TIME IS NOT YOUR FRIEND. I TOLD YOU PREPARE YOUR TRUCK IN THE AM DO NOT BS WITH THE OTHER DRIVERS YOU NEED TO SORT YOUR TRUCK OUT COME IN AN HOUR EARLY.”

Well that preloader got a transfer! Attica Correctional Facility for Grand Larceny. Motherf*cker you, just what I need while I’m trying to make book. Precious time wasted looking for you stole, and LP looking at me.

 

[twoweeled]

Outstanding effort preload, the way you loaded that 140 pound furniture box label down. You could have marked it with that crayon of yours, but you chose not to!

Bravo!

I hope you chose to get help from another teamster when it came time to deliver that 140 lb furniture box? I'm curious what you chose?

 

[LeaveIt2Griever]

The airs I paid my preloader $10 daily to put in a crate.

 

[watdaflock?]

825 pieces... I've had single package cars with more than that on peak. Average day for me when I was on preload was 1300-1500 pieces on 4-5 cars depending on where they stuck me. .

mmmmhmmmmm. If you had 825 on a single PC, it was all envelopes or very small boxes.
Also call BS on preloading 1500 pieces a day. How many hours of OT did you get every day?

 

[MisplacedRailWorker]

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I might head upstate some time and ask for a refund

 

[542thruNthru]

mmmmhmmmmm. If you had 825 on a single PC, it was all envelopes or very small boxes.
Also call BS on preloading 1500 pieces a day. How many hours of OT did you get every day?

I agree with the 825 on one truck but we have 3 mall cars that 1 guy loads and he puts over 500 packages in each one a day. So the 1500 is possible.

 

[Wally]

I hope you chose to get help from another teamster when it came time to deliver that 140 lb furniture box? I'm curious what you chose?

Dump and go

 

[twoweeled]

Dump and go

I'm thinking you and the preloader both handled that 140 lb package, wrong!

 

[Wally]

I'm thinking you and the preloader both handled that 140 lb package, wrong!

How else you going to do it?