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TForce | Ups freight rolling out 10,000 new stack racks

At South Holland I have noticed load bars are easier to find and they have the heavy plywood for dunnage. Maybe there is a light at the end of the tunnel?
 
Stack racks are wonderful things if the company also supplies the needed air bags and dunnage to insure that the freight arrives in good condition. They are a "must have" when loading certain kinds of freight. This is easier on a dockworker than hand decking a trailer. I heard that there was a terminal manager who had stockpiled 5 pup loads of stack racks for his terminal's use. Immediately after his termination, those racks were re-distributed... there must be a big demand for them. Hope the rumored number of stack racks being put into the system is accurate and hopefully this will result in less damage and fewer exceptions with customer's freight.
 
Thats a good thing.
It's about time they concerned themselves about alleviating damages.
Hopefully they include the weight of the racks on the manifests, so no one becomes overweight etc.

Now if we only get people to get off the forklift to lift boxes, rather than trying to shoveling them up with the forks.
I deliver a lot of freight with unnecessary forklift damage.
 
Dockworker said:
Thats a good thing.
It's about time they concerned themselves about alleviating damages.
Hopefully they include the weight of the racks on the manifests, so no one becomes overweight etc.

Now if we only get people to get off the forklift to lift boxes, rather than trying to shoveling them up with the forks.
I deliver a lot of freight with unnecessary forklift damage.
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"rather than trying to shoveling them up with the forks." HA HA HA HA!!!!!! Not only do the boxes arrive that way, but I see our brilliant dockworkers do this WHILE loading me.
Everything you just said I agree with, I never took in consideration the weight of the racks, good observation. The second most important thing I learned about the LTL industry is damages, with cost being a VERY close first. but too many damages and they won't ship with you no matter how cheap you are.

So I think is a very big step forward on making UPS Freight the leader in the LTL industry. Could you imagine a our company being not only close to being damage free but all the other services offered by the UPS brand? Then, and only then I think this company will truly be "Unstoppable", or "Stop proof".
 
Dockworker said:
Hopefully they include the weight of the racks on the manifests, so no one becomes overweight etc.
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On our manifest/load sheet there is a place at the bottom to put how many racks you use, I'm guessing they have a across the board weight they use, but the loader must put down that they were used, and how many
 
today i broke a trailer from PAL, i had 5 skids of (BOOKS) stacked on top of skids that werent even close to being flat with no dunnage between, some of the skids were dumped so there was hundreds of books all over the floor

and they was all 1 skid orders, they didnt HAVE to go on the trailer

[xyz company] is the account they say we are dangerously close to losing.....the have 1 full time dockworker who does nothing but load (BOOKS) all day, we just stage it

but of course management probably dont even bother to talk to other terminals who load this crap the way they load it
 
some of the ones that come through indy weigh up to 550 lbs....others only around 300 lbs...not sure how much they are rated to hold
 
Some of the racks have their weight and the weight rating painted on them. I know the racks go quick on our O/B shift at my terminal. I worked at an LTL carrier back about 9 years ago, their racks had a barcode on them, the dockworkers would scan them to the doors they were loaded on, which aided in accurate trailer weights and being able to track the racks in the system. The company would then be able to route racks to the terminals that utilized them the most on backhauls.
 
When I was a city driver I found that the recessed rings on the trailer walls,and adjustable straps worked the best for holding a lot of types of freight in place.
Load bars are good but they can vibrate loose when the trailer is flexing,and bouncing in transit.

Whenever anything fell in any trailers I saw due to improper loading methods.
I carried a digital camera for such moments to record the incident before anything was moved.
I didn't even have to get prints made,just showed my TM the shots from the back of the camera,although I did have prints made,and saved them in case I saw the same loading methods in the future with similar damage occurring because of it.

Yes I was really into saving our customers by delivering non-damaged goods to them.
 
rex211 said:
Some more deck trailers would be nice. Time to get rid of the crusty old Overnite pups
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the overnite pups are the worst....alot of people complain about the motor cargos, id take rather unload a motor cargo then a overnite anyday...unless its heavy in the nose, then you get to go for a little ride cuz they dont have dive legs
 
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