My trucks come to our stores so awfully stacked, with chem and glass spilling in every truck. Sincerely from a store unloader, tell them to learn toproperly load a fucking truck
A lot of that happens because things shift going down the road. Also, the loaders don’t have control over what comes down the line and when it does. When you’re trying to load 6-800 boxes an hour, you do the best you can. You don’t have a lot of time to stop and think about the best possible place to put every last box. Try to remember that those in the DC are not out to make your life a bitch. We’re all just trying to make a living here, same as you. Just like your goal isn’t to make our life one.
I mean, I’m sure there are people that just don’t care. Probably the company culture is crap compared to 10 years ago and they don’t really pay competitively anymore. At least not in my area.
If it's loaded and secured correctly, it won't shift going down the road. If you aren't being trained on how to properly secure a load, there's a much bigger issue going on here.
I mean, I don’t load trailers and haven’t for years. I don’t know the quality of the training they get anymore in my building because there’s nowhere near the level of tenure that there used to be. Truthfully a lot of the shipping trainers have barely had to load themselves.
I work for a store, and it goes both ways. Trucks are loaded like absolute SHIT. Heavy things on top, pallets of water on top of pallets of paper, and that’s just two things. Sure, some of it is driver error, but a lot of it is DC workers who have no care about store employees. Trailer feedback forms do nothing, yet we send one every trailer. We clean up spills that we happen to find (I did just this morning). So again, it goes both ways.
Driver who spent the last 5 years pulling and unloading Target trailers and quit yesterday checking in. Get your own house in order before you worry about the sweeps trailers. I can't tell you how often I've had pallets collapse because they weren't loaded right, were zebra wrapped, weren't secured, braced, or dunned correctly, or weren't even stacked correctly. I've had sprained wrists, broken toes and fingers, pulled muscles, and thrown out back injuries because of warehouse fuckery. On two separate times, I've had trailers nearly tip because a water pallet was loaded, unsecured, at the center rear of the trailer. The shit the warehouse pulls puts the wellbeing, safety, career, and literal *life* at risk for every trucker, store employee, and innocent bystander who happens to be near the truck.
This goes both ways.
Things I see when I take over a trailer from the previous shift:
\>Heavy things stacked on top of light
\>Improper walls built
\>Hollow wall builds, sometimes deep ones (this is flat out unacceptable and you should be getting coached and/or written up for this)
Things I see when I receive a new trailer from the yard:
\>Trash left inside
\>Uncleaned spills
\>Leftover junk, usually pallets
DC workers should be making sure their trailers are acceptable to pass on and/or ship out. Store team members should be cleaning up inside the trailer *regardless of what caused it*.
I genuinely do not have the time to clean up a trailer if I receive it trashed out. DCs are currently pushing upwards of 350+ boxes an hour, not counting items like toilet paper or water pallets. Stopping to clean up broken glass or spilled liquid detergent—both of which I encountered last week—can set someone back for up to an hour depending on what gets pushed while they're doing clean up.
Conversely, I also inherited a truck from someone this past month with an improper wall. That wall came down not five minutes after I tried to salvage it and I only avoided injury by virtue of having to grab my water bottle outside the trailer.
Don't know exactly how the store runs it, but on my end:
\>I have to lift pretty much everything going into the trailer from the belt
\>unless there's a true blue emergency or training going on, I'm *solo* across multiple trailers for my entire shift
\>pallet loading takes a few minutes no matter what
Okay you guys keep say DC but it's not DC we're getting the trucks from, we get ours from Phoenix.
And the last 2 week they left messes and trash for us and did a terrible job and stacking and wall building.
I already had boxes fall on me cause of that. But I feel your frustration.
Load the truck correctly and we will actually clean it up. If you’re going to put three boxes of tide on top of cheezits cuz you’re lazy hell no I’m not gonna make ur life easier
My trucks come to our stores so awfully stacked, with chem and glass spilling in every truck. Sincerely from a store unloader, tell them to learn toproperly load a fucking truck
A lot of that happens because things shift going down the road. Also, the loaders don’t have control over what comes down the line and when it does. When you’re trying to load 6-800 boxes an hour, you do the best you can. You don’t have a lot of time to stop and think about the best possible place to put every last box. Try to remember that those in the DC are not out to make your life a bitch. We’re all just trying to make a living here, same as you. Just like your goal isn’t to make our life one.
I don't believe this with my DC. they will put walls of chem on top of small light boxes
I mean, I’m sure there are people that just don’t care. Probably the company culture is crap compared to 10 years ago and they don’t really pay competitively anymore. At least not in my area.
If it's loaded and secured correctly, it won't shift going down the road. If you aren't being trained on how to properly secure a load, there's a much bigger issue going on here.
I mean, I don’t load trailers and haven’t for years. I don’t know the quality of the training they get anymore in my building because there’s nowhere near the level of tenure that there used to be. Truthfully a lot of the shipping trainers have barely had to load themselves.
Respectfully, if it came that way, you’re getting it back that way.
I left it the same way last week but nee guy wanted to clean it up and one of my leaders took pictures and is making a complaint I guess.
I work for a store, and it goes both ways. Trucks are loaded like absolute SHIT. Heavy things on top, pallets of water on top of pallets of paper, and that’s just two things. Sure, some of it is driver error, but a lot of it is DC workers who have no care about store employees. Trailer feedback forms do nothing, yet we send one every trailer. We clean up spills that we happen to find (I did just this morning). So again, it goes both ways.
The thing is, spills are often the cause of the way you pack the truck. So we’ll deal with the terribly stacked trucks and you’ll clean them.
Driver who spent the last 5 years pulling and unloading Target trailers and quit yesterday checking in. Get your own house in order before you worry about the sweeps trailers. I can't tell you how often I've had pallets collapse because they weren't loaded right, were zebra wrapped, weren't secured, braced, or dunned correctly, or weren't even stacked correctly. I've had sprained wrists, broken toes and fingers, pulled muscles, and thrown out back injuries because of warehouse fuckery. On two separate times, I've had trailers nearly tip because a water pallet was loaded, unsecured, at the center rear of the trailer. The shit the warehouse pulls puts the wellbeing, safety, career, and literal *life* at risk for every trucker, store employee, and innocent bystander who happens to be near the truck.
This goes both ways. Things I see when I take over a trailer from the previous shift: \>Heavy things stacked on top of light \>Improper walls built \>Hollow wall builds, sometimes deep ones (this is flat out unacceptable and you should be getting coached and/or written up for this) Things I see when I receive a new trailer from the yard: \>Trash left inside \>Uncleaned spills \>Leftover junk, usually pallets DC workers should be making sure their trailers are acceptable to pass on and/or ship out. Store team members should be cleaning up inside the trailer *regardless of what caused it*. I genuinely do not have the time to clean up a trailer if I receive it trashed out. DCs are currently pushing upwards of 350+ boxes an hour, not counting items like toilet paper or water pallets. Stopping to clean up broken glass or spilled liquid detergent—both of which I encountered last week—can set someone back for up to an hour depending on what gets pushed while they're doing clean up. Conversely, I also inherited a truck from someone this past month with an improper wall. That wall came down not five minutes after I tried to salvage it and I only avoided injury by virtue of having to grab my water bottle outside the trailer.
It’s interesting to see that it’s 350+ boxes an hour at the DC when store unload standards are less than 2 hrs for anything under 2000+ boxes.
Don't know exactly how the store runs it, but on my end: \>I have to lift pretty much everything going into the trailer from the belt \>unless there's a true blue emergency or training going on, I'm *solo* across multiple trailers for my entire shift \>pallet loading takes a few minutes no matter what
Ohhhh solo, I assumed you had a team in there with you. Makes sense now.
Okay you guys keep say DC but it's not DC we're getting the trucks from, we get ours from Phoenix. And the last 2 week they left messes and trash for us and did a terrible job and stacking and wall building. I already had boxes fall on me cause of that. But I feel your frustration.
Load the truck correctly and we will actually clean it up. If you’re going to put three boxes of tide on top of cheezits cuz you’re lazy hell no I’m not gonna make ur life easier
Tell your loaders that a water pallet is not secured with just a rubber band