scratchingmyhead
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What is wrong with you? Can't you read a simple comment and comprehend it? Who said anything about damaging freight and blaming it on someone else? I am going to try this one more time and try to make it more simple. I had 8 skids, 12 boxes on each skid. They came out of a NON E-track trailer. The E-Track trailer that was in my loading door was my 2nd trailer of 2 trailers. In order to get the skids in the trailer I had to take off the top 4 boxes because when I tried to put them in but the top boxes hit the racks. I'm scratchingmyhead trying to figure out what is so difficult to understand. Unless you don't understand because you don't even work here. It happens, I know of someone else that posts here that don't even drive a truck.
The handhelds track the employees who use them. When you look at a manifest all those names on it are the employees who loaded the bills. When you mark exception on your handheld it says the shipment was damaged. If the person who loaded it (whose name is printed from the computer on the manifest and you can see) didn't click exception also the damage is placed on them and their sic. Doesn't even matter if there is a claim eventually or not.
Who said anything about damaging freight and blaming it on someone else?
You told the company the freight was damaged when you,
Make sure you mark that in the exceptions.
There are only 3 options in the exceptions tab: over, short, damage. You can't even add a comment without choosing one. Obviously, you didn't mark over; I wouldn't disrespect you by saying you marked short; the option left is damage.
Management can, will and do go back to look at these exceptions. This is common sense but let me say it to you explicitly, marking exception shifts claim damage back on the previous sic and loader (aka driver). We've only had these hand-helds for a few months but eventually the company will use this info for something. I've had conversations about this exact issue because of what your doing and advertising for others to do. I see drivers and supervisors alike with this mentality. Opps, just damaged that freight (I mean really f$cked it up), mark it down as exception, it'll be on the previous sic. Fuk, man up (not directed at you).
The company can't even be sure loaded freight wasn't unloaded and reloaded or the next guy dropping freight damaged what someone else loaded prior. There is no way for true accountability with the company's current model. But watch, there are too many new numbers flying around next to employees names for it not to be attractive for the company to act on. Then the company will get smart and realize the possibilities with the hand-held data. Wait until they hire a statistician and start interpolating employee performance; all those exceptions will come back on you because it'll show a trend. Trust me, the math ain't even hard.
And your being a bit naive to think there won't be a claim for that little bit you just did to that freight. I see it done all the time but not with the "do not remove shrink wrap", such as those used on the supplies being shipped to the prisons.
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