What do they gain from pushing back our departure times?
There really needs to be some kind of initiative to get every single terminal effected by the 60-90 minute delay to get the city freight in sooner and unloaded.
Reducing and or Limiting all the 09:30 and 10:00am. City Starts - would be a step in the right direction!
What do they gain from pushing back our departure times?
By delaying the outbound trailers for 90 min. It gives the dock a better chance to create direct loads and larger headloads, becuase more freight from the city will be at the terminal when the outbound trailers are loaded.
It reduces claims becuase it means less freight moving across the docks at hubs.
Nonsense, it gives them nothing, I arrive at my turn around and most of the dock crew is gone, and the ones that are still there are hanging aroung the office waiting for the delayed inbounds. EVERY night there is a delay my return loads are done at the same time and quite frequently sooner that usual. The terminals are reduced to sending dock guys home at their usual time or even earlier to make sure their labor to revenue isnt to out of wack by having the rest of them there for nothing.
Just becuase you don't see a benefit does not mean the delay does not work, you say there is no benefit but you contradict yourself by saying the dock crew is usually done earlier thats the point by the terminals that pickup the freight have extra time to creae better and more headloads reducing the time it takes to work the freight at the next point. Also the less times freight gets handled the less chance it has to get damaged.