Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

Im not that good of righter but one more thing every time they show cast away on tv, i have to explain to some old famer Tom Hanks is ok, he was just a actor and that was not a real story! Lol! Its crazy what people believe.

 

Today I pretty sure I had a brand new loader loading my trailer actually this whole week the loading has been below average, maybe tomorrow they shape it up I hope. Today was pretty bad load quality wise, luckily I didn't have a lot on, but sloppy sloppy sloppy job.

 

Yea i hate that! And most of the its another driver that loads me.

 

Most of the time with us it's someone who hasn't worked any longer then 3 hours at the company. We go through loaders quickly, because it's way demanding, our trailers are floor loaded, and the loaders stand at the end of a conveyor belt and get cases shot off at them and have to keep pace so the production line doesn't come to a halt.

 

Could also have a lot to do with the small week. When cases are down the selectors bust tail to get done and go home to be with family. It's also super easy for them to get very far ahead of shipping and then shipping is really far behind all of a sudden. That's when the merge operator cranks the system up to 11, cases get jammed and start spewing everywhere and getting crushed, and it's literally being crammed down the Packers throat. The packer has one option.... Throw that case I'm the first hole he sees. And even then he'll have a solid blue light with 10-20 cases going to the loop. By the time those cases get from the loop back on to his line for say, stop 95... he's already packing stop 92. So then the driver sees stop 95 cases when he should see stop 92 which causes a cluster #### for us drivers.

 

Yes that all made sense I could tell by the way cases were spewn all across the back of my trailer with a 400 cube load.
Ahh the infinite loop and the merge operator, I had a hunch it was always the selectors making things hard.

 

Not necessarily. Everyone has an agenda. The warehouse guys go their own pace and whatnot to get the money they want and leave at the time they want, but they can only do so much. It's really up to supervisors and the warehouse GM to set the actual throughput rate. They have to push so many cases per hour through the system to make big guy in charge happy. And the smaller the case count, the less routes there are. The less routes there are, the less trailers that are being packed. Which means there's cases going into trailers faster than there should be. It just throws everything off

 

And by no means am I taking their side, just simply giving an inside perspective

 

As a drop lot driver I am not familiar with warehouse operations LOL! The warehouse to us operates magically like it's, it's own magical system far away it's own living breathing thing really that's how we perceive it. It's like the land of OZ and every once in a while and I do mean once in a while one of us will venture to the land of OZ, but not very often LOL!

That all makes sense though, because on fuller heavier days when all the trucks run, and all the routes go out the load quality does seem to be a tad better.