Estands4evil
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In a perfect world we shouldnt, but outbound crews lag sometimes, loads close late, pick ups come in late, sets are not hooked, it is all from poor planning off the dock. If the dock has their crap together then we should never have to wait, but you know as I do in the business we are all in it does not happen that way all the time.
More or less its just poor planning by Estes as a whole. You'll have hot freight come in late, or have it show up by surprise. Which will catch the supervisor off guard. Then when they realize the loads already closed out and the sets already hooked, they want the set broke down and back against the dock to rework a trailer to fit that freight on there. Or they'll have a driver pull up outside and a guy from the dock to come down and load the freight on the back. My favorite thing is when they hand you a strip and say hey I need the hot freight off here..and you look at the original load manifest and you see it signed on 1st, knowing its buried dead in the nose of one of those 75 bill van's from 041. There goes having to strip an entire van to the dock for 1 skid and having to handle the rest of the freight more than necessary. One other thing that I always like is when you get freight out of a terminal that is really supposed to goto the hub, but they hub doesn't want to work it so its always sent to the break, like we don't already have a shortage of manpower and an excess of work. Such an amazing freight system we have here.