Writing Box Shelf # on Box itself
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FrigidFTSup
Resident Suit
I make sure the person I'm observing know it's something dumb and I have to hit them for something if they are perfect. For unload my go to is usually not using the roller set. Loading is usually setting bags to the side. Car wash it's usually not using the horn enough. Just little things that don't look too bad. I'll play the game.
Mothe73
Member
Since I have been lurking forever let me speak up( or whine) now. First I have no labels to pull I get red ink from an imprinter. It may or may not be near a label, or even legible. Next I would love to give you numerical order. But I simply do not have time. Right section is a miracle some days. I work belt to car. 3 trucks that have bulk loads for lowes an wally world mixed in with resi. Many of these pkgs are much larger than I am. So forgive me on my slow days.
HardknocksUPSer
Well-Known Member
A week? Most quit in two days at my center lol
By The Book
Well-Known Member
I do know it was very helpful as a loader to use a crayon, before we had the pal system and edd. As a driver back then you had to fine sort all day anyway.
govols019
You smell that?
Excuses..that's what I'm reading. I know preloading can be difficult but it can be done and done correctly...I know, I've done it.
govols019
You smell that?
So says the person that has never done the job...typical for you.
The written HIN number is not for the drivers benefit but to help the preloader more easily place the packages in the proper order.
9.5er
Well-Known Member
Our loaders have been instructed to write the sequence # on all boxes. I never look at any hand written #s. I can't read most of them and lots of times they write the wrong # anyway.
If my truck is not finished by my start time I tell the loader to stop writing and just put it where is should go.
If my truck is not finished by my start time I tell the loader to stop writing and just put it where is should go.
Cementups
Box Monkey
When i was a loader I HATED writing on the packages and when was told I had to do it I would refuse and tell them that that is defacing someone else property.
But as a driver, if a loader does it right, the writings can be hugely beneficial. I used to have a loader that did it perfectly. Stop for stop in my PC. So good that Stevie Wonder could have run my trip.
I never look at these numbers. I always go by the original shipping label. As a driver, I appreciate if the preloader can load so that I can easily read the label. I will pull the PAL labels off and put them on the oversize packages on the floor so that I can easily find them.
Are you doing this for the drivers benefit or to limit the number of miss loads ?
Number24
#24
Both
FrigidFTSup
Resident Suit
An hour? Shoot I'm lucky to get 25 minutes.
I generally get about 3 weeks before they've had enough.
They might tell you it's both but it's really just to make sure your putting the package in the correct car. They make the preloaders do it at my place every now and then when there is a spike in missloads.
I could careless what number is written on the box. I only care what the label says.
brownmonster
Man of Great Wisdom
My loader writes the PAL number on the boxes. Since I jump all over the route I just glance, grab and go. Definitely not a waste of time.
HardknocksUPSer
Well-Known Member
You seem to be nicer than my sups, they want chaos, especially one of them who is a power freak, she tries to dominate everyone mentally to get what she wants. Lol
Overpaid Union Thug
Well-Known Member
Actually he has a point. There is no need to write the number when the number used to place the package in the car is already on the PAL. It's reductant and therefore a waste of time. And since most preloaders don't have time to/aren't capable of writing legible numbers, and since there are often duplicate sequence numbers (that should never happen), we often end up having to do six sided checks for a label with an address. If they would just go back to facing either the PAL or the shipping label then we'd save allot of time each day. So, unless they are legible and not duplicated relying on handwritten numbers nowadays is counter productive. Hell I didn't even use them back before we had EDD.
It's stupid but its the norm now. Most of our preloaders don't touch the PALs anymore. I don't even want to know how much more time I have been spending in the back of the truck since this crap started. I can tell you that it makes me want to choke the life out of whatever empty suit in Atlanta issued the order. After being in the back of the truck too long flipping packages around looking for a label in the heat I have to step out and take a break and remind myself that they are paying me pretty damn well to be counter productive. LOL! Then I wipe the sweat off my face with my sweat towel and then dive back in. LOL!
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