Rock Lobster
Executive Team Leader
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How many pallets do you guys have, total? We have (I think I'm counting right, trying to remember) 18 per side. So 36 total places for boxes to go. That doesn't include bulk, which we don't always have and would put an extra pallet or two up front. We need to pull pallets while doing unload...otherwise plastics and paper would be 25 feet high (read: impossible to stack). And many other pallets have to be pulled over the course of an unload. Last night was a regular night, I suppose, and I think our truck was 2700.
I can fit 13 pallets along the side of the line, plus two on the end. I do 10 pallets and then 6 u-boats in the last 3 actual pallet spots and 2 pallets on the end. Each of those last 8 vehicles has its own custom block aligning to an aisle in grocery. I schedule 4-6 bowlers per truck that come in staggered later and they start taking vehicles off the line and bowling as they go. Imo its a waste of time to touch a pallet twice, so I make my team pull the pallet and bowl it out and then bring the empty back (I do this with grocery too).
Backside of the line is then the full 13 pallets plus we setup pallets along the dock plates and around the corner even if transition is heavy and one is in charge of the open area and the corner and the other pulls backstock for the whole line. I generally only have to pull pallets off the back on doubles, but it depends on what they are sending us.