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12-23-2011 04:18 AM |
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Originally Posted by CYF
(Post 18644952)
That's how UPS packs their trucks. Loaders throw shit wherever it'll fit.
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I used to load trucks for UPS in highschool; it was way worse than that. During orientation they make you watch about an hour worth of videos on how to properly stack the boxes to form a wall; how to use the hand-to-surface method of handling the boxes which basically means that a package should never be dropped or thrown, not even an inch. About 20 minutes after you start you realize that this is practically impossible to do unless you're Superman. You work a four hour shift, no breaks, and during that time you're loading an endless flow of packages; about 2,000 packages a night I loaded. You can move as fast as you can and still not keep up with the flow. Two guys to a truck and we would load two trailers, jam packed, a night.
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Originally Posted by JFK
(Post 18647784)
there is probably a guy inside the truck, catching the boxes the way he's throwing them :2 cents:
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The way the hub is set up they have the unload section on one end where the incoming trailers get unloaded. The packages make their way through a maze of elevated conveyor belts about 30 feet high that snakes its way throughout the hub to the load section where people sort the packages according to where they're going and toss them down chutes into the corresponding trucks. The trailers themselves have a roller line built into them that runs down the middle of the trailer front to back that's supposed to carry the packages right to you. Nothing ever runs smoothly though. The chutes get jammed up and packages overflow onto the loading dock. The packages bust open and spill their contents all over the truck. People don't stack boxes right and whole walls of packages collapse. It was a fucking madhouse. You figure you got a couple million packages a day moving through one hub.
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