Streakn1
Veteran Expediter
As a spin off from the thread "Team Rest", I would be interested in hearing:
As a team truck, when it comes to loading and unloading freight, especially the labor intensive WG, Elite, or whatever your carrier calls it loads, do you handle the task as a team or solo? Technically one driver is most likely getting their ten hours in the sleeper berth at the time of loading or unloading. So as an example in the case of a WG load that requires bringing many items down out of a building, pad wrapping them, and securing them in the box, etc do you or your team partner stay in the S/B or do you assist? Whether it is logged on duty or not it still interrupts one's sleep cycle which may impact their next drive period.
Since all of our freight is hands on (tarping, securing, etc) and since we are a team, we work together as a team on ALL loads.
Loading/unloading as a team is handled in half the time it would
take as when done solo. In watching other teams we've seem it done both ways.
As a team truck, when it comes to loading and unloading freight, especially the labor intensive WG, Elite, or whatever your carrier calls it loads, do you handle the task as a team or solo? Technically one driver is most likely getting their ten hours in the sleeper berth at the time of loading or unloading. So as an example in the case of a WG load that requires bringing many items down out of a building, pad wrapping them, and securing them in the box, etc do you or your team partner stay in the S/B or do you assist? Whether it is logged on duty or not it still interrupts one's sleep cycle which may impact their next drive period.
Since all of our freight is hands on (tarping, securing, etc) and since we are a team, we work together as a team on ALL loads.
Loading/unloading as a team is handled in half the time it would
take as when done solo. In watching other teams we've seem it done both ways.
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