Originally Posted by
LRSRanger
All true, but UPS loads the planes at the hubs too, and some of those folks... I called them "minimum wage rock stars" for a reason. In any case the pilot should closely supervise and then physically close and latch the doors themselves. And while I was there they retrained when someone gear upped a chieftain (according to what I heard), so I doubt a few pounds would get you fired.
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I personally don't LET UPS close or latch my door. Heck, they aren't even supposed to open it.
Originally Posted by
Jetlife
Hubs are one thing, the rest of the system is another... I always had good luck with the loaded at ONT, but they were certified and trained, as they would load us, then go a 757. But when you land at Imperial and the toothless van driver pulls up, he doesn't know about station weights, hell he doesn't even have a scale. At the end of the day if that guy loads the plane and puts a plane on the tail, the pilot will be in the unemployment line.
The "secret" to a loader not setting a plane on its tail is making sure they load it the way you tell them to. If they don't have weights, then they need to get them. If there is no way they will bring a scale or have the work divided into groups that can fit in individual bays or in a center load zone, tell the ops manager you need a scale in the plane.
When I first went TDY to BUF last year they weren't doing anything but bringing out a total weight and just throwing it in the plane. I was told the scale was broken and UPS refused to fix it. I said fine. If everything would fit in the center load zone, I would take it. But if it wouldn't, they needed to find a way to tell me how much of the total wasn't in that zone. If that meant they had to take the remainder in the can back to primary scale so be it. Even if it delayed the departure. Amazingly after a week of doing that the scale was fixed.