Where do you find the time to re-work trailers?
Just really curious on where you have time to open up and combine loads, and is it worth it or even justifed? I know that many times we struggle between load factor and getting trailers closed up and sent down the road. as P&D comes back in, outbound gets loaded and there are times when we have to cut one or two loose to make re-ship on time.
I understand that every area and terminal has different levels of i/b o/b, and freight characterisitics vary as well. If it is faster to floor load 4 trailers and make it on time, does that make more sense. I know we need to cut linehaul runs and save money, but I've seen this visious circle before. Cut runs, cram and jam, con-way crunch...., late to re-ship, late to leave, freight is damaged and misses service any way, customers are pissed.....who wins? vs/ load another trailer,
numbers? inexperienced FOS's are having numbers
hammered into their brains, and are not shown the big picture. whatever happened to the cirlce of life?
It is my opinion that the drivers experience should prevail over any pencil pushers idea. If this company would offer more pay for an FOS position, some(seasoned) drivers might take an FOS job, and we'd solve a few problems. (I said a few here, not all)
Just really curious on where you have time to open up and combine loads, and is it worth it or even justifed? I know that many times we struggle between load factor and getting trailers closed up and sent down the road. as P&D comes back in, outbound gets loaded and there are times when we have to cut one or two loose to make re-ship on time.
I understand that every area and terminal has different levels of i/b o/b, and freight characterisitics vary as well. If it is faster to floor load 4 trailers and make it on time, does that make more sense. I know we need to cut linehaul runs and save money, but I've seen this visious circle before. Cut runs, cram and jam, con-way crunch...., late to re-ship, late to leave, freight is damaged and misses service any way, customers are pissed.....who wins? vs/ load another trailer,
numbers? inexperienced FOS's are having numbers hammered into their brains, and are not shown the big picture. whatever happened to the cirlce of life?It is my opinion that the drivers experience should prevail over any pencil pushers idea. If this company would offer more pay for an FOS position, some(seasoned) drivers might take an FOS job, and we'd solve a few problems. (I said a few here, not all)
