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<blockquote data-quote="Undertow" data-source="post: 5671556" data-attributes="member: 4550">Because older facilities clearly can&#039;t process high volume at a rate newer buildings can.&nbsp; The building I work out of was built in the 1960&#039;s on land with no room for expansion.&nbsp; Peak volume was manageable up until the uptick in online shipping.&nbsp; After that, even starting the preload at midnight couldn&#039;t process the number of trailers arriving nightly much less account for the difference between &quot;cold&quot; and &quot;hot&quot; volume.&nbsp; If 15% of the volume hasn&#039;t managed to be unloaded and put onto trucks by 845 am, then PVD&#039;S rolling into the building shortly after 9am is a far more effective and preferable alternative than RPCD&#039;S with NDA commits sitting inside until 10am or after.&nbsp; The company relies on it because it&#039;s often a far more effective strategy in dealing with temporary surges in volume and not a single driver in my building wants to decline the opportunity to leave the building at the scheduled start.As I stated previously, if there&#039;s FT hourlies laid off outside of peak while PVD&#039;S are working, that&#039;s another matter entirely.&nbsp; But after the nightmare peak of 2013 and near capsizing in 2017, drivers by and large aren&#039;t all that motivated to pick the issue of eliminating all use of PVD&#039;S as the hill to fight and die on.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Undertow, post: 5671556, member: 4550"] Because older facilities clearly can't process high volume at a rate newer buildings can. The building I work out of was built in the 1960's on land with no room for expansion. Peak volume was manageable up until the uptick in online shipping. After that, even starting the preload at midnight couldn't process the number of trailers arriving nightly much less account for the difference between "cold" and "hot" volume. If 15% of the volume hasn't managed to be unloaded and put onto trucks by 845 am, then PVD'S rolling into the building shortly after 9am is a far more effective and preferable alternative than RPCD'S with NDA commits sitting inside until 10am or after. The company relies on it because it's often a far more effective strategy in dealing with temporary surges in volume and not a single driver in my building wants to decline the opportunity to leave the building at the scheduled start. As I stated previously, if there's FT hourlies laid off outside of peak while PVD'S are working, that's another matter entirely. But after the nightmare peak of 2013 and near capsizing in 2017, drivers by and large aren't all that motivated to pick the issue of eliminating all use of PVD'S as the hill to fight and die on. [/QUOTE]

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