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<blockquote data-quote="lolbr" data-source="post: 3182691" data-attributes="member: 68664">No union employee is required to meet any of UPS&#039;s metrics.&nbsp; Do what you need to do to get through probation, but safety and (usually) quality trump speed.You don&#039;t need to know a drivers route.&nbsp; Keep the floor bulk stops seperated and in the right corners.&nbsp; Don&#039;t waste shelf space with large packages.&nbsp; Try to get irregs in early and under the shelves. Start loading the shelves like books on a bookcase, use depth and height before width.&nbsp; After you have a full row of packages, then stack on top.&nbsp; Try to learn the bulk stops your cars gets, that way you can plan for them. Doing this I never broke a sweat preloading and still hit their metrics.My usual day preloading (10 years):Work everything perfectly, including writing hins on every package, for first 45 minutes or so.&nbsp; This saves you more time than taking shortcuts at this point.&nbsp; By this time they should have the charts posted showing expected packages per section.&nbsp; Any section with more than 39 packages is going to need special attention, the rest loaded according to the above plan.&nbsp; After about 45 more minutes, start getting the irregs that will fit under shelves in cars.&nbsp; This is also about the time add cuts would get posted.&nbsp; Get all add cuts that were loaded off immediately, they should be easy to find (check irregs on floor).&nbsp; Write on cut sheet the hin range of the add cuts, this way you can easily check while entering truck what not to load.At this point you should now be about 2 hours in, maybe more.&nbsp; Go ahead and take some shortcuts.&nbsp; You have hins on other boxes so you can easily see where to set another box, no need for writing more hins.&nbsp; Just don&#039;t take shortcuts that cost you time later, like stacking a pile on floor or behind the car (you&#039;ll spend more time picking them back up and loading them than just loading them in the first place).Note: This is with a rotating cage preload.&nbsp; A belt preload might need to do things a little different, but the general idea is similar.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="lolbr, post: 3182691, member: 68664"] No union employee is required to meet any of UPS's metrics. Do what you need to do to get through probation, but safety and (usually) quality trump speed. You don't need to know a drivers route. Keep the floor bulk stops seperated and in the right corners. Don't waste shelf space with large packages. Try to get irregs in early and under the shelves. Start loading the shelves like books on a bookcase, use depth and height before width. After you have a full row of packages, then stack on top. Try to learn the bulk stops your cars gets, that way you can plan for them. Doing this I never broke a sweat preloading and still hit their metrics. My usual day preloading (10 years): Work everything perfectly, including writing hins on every package, for first 45 minutes or so. This saves you more time than taking shortcuts at this point. By this time they should have the charts posted showing expected packages per section. Any section with more than 39 packages is going to need special attention, the rest loaded according to the above plan. After about 45 more minutes, start getting the irregs that will fit under shelves in cars. This is also about the time add cuts would get posted. Get all add cuts that were loaded off immediately, they should be easy to find (check irregs on floor). Write on cut sheet the hin range of the add cuts, this way you can easily check while entering truck what not to load. At this point you should now be about 2 hours in, maybe more. Go ahead and take some shortcuts. You have hins on other boxes so you can easily see where to set another box, no need for writing more hins. Just don't take shortcuts that cost you time later, like stacking a pile on floor or behind the car (you'll spend more time picking them back up and loading them than just loading them in the first place). Note: This is with a rotating cage preload. A belt preload might need to do things a little different, but the general idea is similar. [/QUOTE]

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