Tips on loading mashers/trailers

[StackedOut’n’Vibing]

I’ve been loading package cars since I started last summer and was asked if I wanted to switch to loading mashers. I don’t know if that’s universal lingo but they’re trailers with individual chutes and extendos feeding each one.

I want a consistent assignment I can expect and with package cars I’m always being moved around, a couple weeks here, maybe a month or longer there. My FT supe likes how I load and needs another person for these mashers so they asked if I wanted to give it a try.

I noticed that this area is manned by higher seniority members in general so maybe it’s an easier assignment. Hoping to get some advice from y’all on what to expect and maybe loading tips going from being on a belt to these individual trailers. The extendos seem like they can take a little getting used to as well. Thanks in advance

 

[Babagounj]

Heavy stuff goes on the bottom.

 

[Wally]

Masher? Wut?

 

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I’ve been loading package cars since I started last summer and was asked if I wanted to switch to loading mashers. I don’t know if that’s universal lingo but they’re trailers with individual chutes and extendos feeding each one.

I want a consistent assignment I can expect and with package cars I’m always being moved around, a couple weeks here, maybe a month or longer there. My FT supe likes how I load and needs another person for these mashers so they asked if I wanted to give it a try.

I noticed that this area is manned by higher seniority members in general so maybe it’s an easier assignment. Hoping to get some advice from y’all on what to expect and maybe loading tips going from being on a belt to these individual trailers. The extendos seem like they can take a little getting used to as well. Thanks in advance

Use cornerstone packages. Bags at the top (you might have to stockpile these under the extendo for a few minutes). Make sure your walls have Ts (it should look like a brick wall, not like you just stacked packages straight up in columns). Pack it tight--you shouldn't be able to see the previous wall, and you definitely shouldn't be able to push the visible wall back at all. Irregs at waist level or below. MAINTAIN A CLEAN FLOOR AND EGRESS! I cannot stress enough how much easier your life will be when you can move around freely.

 

[I have NOT been lurking]

Just throw it in there

 

[trickpony1]

30+ years and I have never heard a trailer called "masher".
"hey trickster, hook these two mashers together and hammer down the big road.".

where have I been?

 

[SorryLazyPOS]

Shower after work

 

[I have NOT been lurking]

30+ years and I have never heard a trailer called "masher".
"hey trickster, hook these two mashers together and hammer down the big road.".

where have I been?

Aren't they shorties and big boys?

 

[StackedOut’n’Vibing]

30+ years and I have never heard a trailer called "masher".
"hey trickster, hook these two mashers together and hammer down the big road.".

where have I been?

I guess I should’ve clarified they’re loaded a little differently than trailers. Layout is same as a package car except there are no shelves. So it looks like right side front to back goes FDR, 1000, 2000, 5000, 6000, RDR and left side is FDL, 3000, 4000, 7000, 8000, RDL. Seems kinda odd to load a trailer that way but what do I know?

 

[Johney]

Maybe TDP trailers? My building had like 6 pups they loaded for TDP drivers.

 

[I have NOT been lurking]

I guess I should’ve clarified they’re loaded a little differently than trailers. Layout is same as a package car except there are no shelves. So it looks like right side front to back goes FDR, 1000, 2000, 5000, 6000, RDR and left side is FDL, 3000, 4000, 7000, 8000, RDL. Seems kinda odd to load a trailer that way but what do I know?

Trailers are walls. What ARE you loading?

 

[StackedOut’n’Vibing]

Trailers are walls. What ARE you loading?

I’ll take a pic tomorrow lol

 

[Johney]

I’ll take a pic tomorrow lol

Are you loading trailers next to package cars? If you are those are TDP routes, basically glorified package car drivers delivering packages out of feeders.

 

[StackedOut’n’Vibing]

Are you loading trailers next to package cars? If you are those are TDP routes, basically glorified package car drivers delivering packages out of feeders.

That’s more what it sounds like. They’re across the belt from where the package cars get loaded and lined up against the wall of the hub.

 

[I have NOT been lurking]

That’s more what it sounds like. They’re across the belt from where the package cars get loaded and lined up against the wall of the hub.

Where's the photo

I’ll take a pic tomorrow lol

 

[Wally]

Where's the photo

 

[PT Car Washer]

That’s more what it sounds like. They’re across the belt from where the package cars get loaded and lined up against the wall of the hub.

Sounds more like a 26' straight truck. All bulk stops delivered to places that have docks.

 

[StackedOut’n’Vibing]

Where's the photo

What it looks like from the outside and inside. Think @PT Car Washer nailed it

 

[I have NOT been lurking]

What it looks like from the outside and inside. Think @PT Car Washer nailed it

That's like a rental: you tried

 

[StackedOut’n’Vibing]

That's like a rental: you tried

?? Idc