New preloader - tips(?) + blowing off steam

[PT Car Washer]

Well, the 9 misloads haven't deterred me, though I do feel ashamed for mucking up that many. Most of the drivers I've met seem cool enough. I don't like the idea of making their lives more difficult.

I'm at least fairly certain how it happened; stacking out to the right of one car and to the left of the other car and accidentally creating an environment where it would be easy for me to pull from one of my stacks without looking at the bay#/driver name and simply putting it into the sequence.

Like I said, my biggest issue, or what I'm not ready for, is the speed. Oddly though, as I look at some of the other loaders, they don't appear to be hustling too much. I'm guessing, but likely I need to improve when to spend time in the package car and when to spend time working the belt. Working the wrong one at the wrong time is probably a good way to get buried.


They scan for misloads here, too. Not sure if they scan everything. Guessing they don't, seeing as I had 9 misloads.

Do you load by the PAL label or look up at a chart to know where to load the packages?

 

[Loyal Teamster]

Ur gonna have to take th beating during ur probationary period, afterwards you can slow down and work at a comfortable UNION speed.


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[bleedinbrown58]

Why would you be scanning packages?

They scan as they load so if they scan a package spa with a bad spa or one that doesn't belong to a set of trucks....it'll pop up in the computer as a misload and they can locate it and remove the package before the truck leaves the building.

 

[HolyBrown]

Do you load by the PAL label or look up at a chart to know where to load the packages?

I've been looking at the pal label and loading according to the sequence number, 1000-8000 FL RD. The only chart we have is one they post 20-30 min. into the day which gives the count of how many packages are in each section of the PC. I'm not sure if this is the chart you're talking about, but I'm guessing not as I'd have no idea how to figure out what goes where from a chart that simply says 32 (packages) in 1000.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I've been looking at the pal label and loading according to the sequence number, 1000-8000 FL RD. The only chart we have is one they post 20-30 min. into the day which gives the count of how many packages are in each section of the PC. I'm not sure if this is the chart you're talking about, but I'm guessing not as I'd have no idea how to figure out what goes where from a chart that simply says 32 (packages) in 1000.

He is talking about the load charts that were used before we started using PAL labels.

 

[PT Car Washer]

I've been looking at the pal label and loading according to the sequence number, 1000-8000 FL RD. The only chart we have is one they post 20-30 min. into the day which gives the count of how many packages are in each section of the PC. I'm not sure if this is the chart you're talking about, but I'm guessing not as I'd have no idea how to figure out what goes where from a chart that simply says 32 (packages) in 1000.

I think we call that a forecast of how many packages and stops are for each package car. Our packages are scanned coming out of the trailer and a PAL label slapped over the bar code.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I think we call that a forecast of how many packages and stops are for each package car. Our packages are scanned coming out of the trailer and a PAL label slapped over the bar code.

It is a diagram of the pkg car with projected volume per load position.

 

[By The Book]

Our preload scans everything.

I'd give you more funnies but it's hard when you are constantly laughing.

 

[By The Book]

We have one main belt with an upper belt which feeds the lower half.

Do you have 3 doors for the trailers?

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Do you have 3 doors for the trailers?

Inbound? 4.

 

[By The Book]

Inbound? 4.

We had a similar setup(inbound), where there was 2 sorters and one belt was for in town and one out of town. This was way back, when we had alpha charts and crayons and stop counters.

 

[wayfair]

a PAL label slapped over the bar code.

I wish they'd quit doing that...

I think it's former drivers doing it tbh... lol

 

[Wally]

I'd give you more funnies but it's hard when you are constantly laughing.

They do scan everything. Not too many missorts anymore since the new system went in. The load is another story...

 

[wayfair]

They do scan everything. Not too many missorts anymore since the new system went in. The load is another story...

When I get to my PC, there's always a pt supe scanning packages that are already loaded... not scanned during preload

 

[Wally]

When I get to my PC, there's always a pt supe scanning packages that are already loaded... not scanned during preload

Mere amateurs.

 

[By The Book]

When I get to my PC, there's always a pt supe scanning packages that are already loaded... not scanned during preload

Scan check audit! You better service every package, call in m/routes.

 

[wayfair]

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Scan check audit! You better service every package, call in m/routes.

it was actually for the preloader because of misloads..... +5 everyday

 

[GenericUsername]

When I started, they originally were going to train me how to load a mall route by starting me on 1 24 foot box truck. Not even 10 minutes in, I got moved to a 3 car set, which wasn't too bad. They kept me there for a few days, then moved me up to another 3 door set (but twice as hard) on the same belt. I've since been moved around a few times (this has been a year and a half now) to splitting with 1-3 cars, depending, to doing 1100 pieces (2 post office, Wal-Mart & Home Depot), to a 4 door set with a mall route on it. They'll keep moving you around until they find a spot that suits their needs that doesn't cause you to be too far behind and cause issues.

You'll get the hang of it. Learn to work the belt, it's the best thing. You don't have to hustle to get it done, just work ahead as much as possible. If you're looking at boxes at the back side of your doors, stack everything on the floor and start again at the front. Work the belt there and catch up slowly.

Don't sweat the load charts that they give you 20-30 minutes into shift. If you're in the same spot, you'll know how things are going to run that day just from loading them in the past. Half the time the charts aren't even right.

 

[By The Book]

They do scan everything. Not too many missorts anymore since the new system went in. The load is another story...

I don't have the heart to tell my loader that he's been loading the bulk out of order for years. He thinks the first thing on the 2nd and 4th shelves come before the high digit shelf 1 and 3 bulk. He's a great loader and maybe a m/route once a year.

 

[By The Book]

it was actually for the preloader because of misloads..... +5 everyday

Oh I get it, but it locks the driver in as well.