This is not as far-fetched as most of you might think. I am a truck driver. A couple years ago, I delivered to a Ralphs stores distribution center in California. LA area I think, but it might have been San Diego.
They have a policy that no case of product can be over 70 lbs. They will refuse anything over 70 lbs, and put it back on the delivery truck.
To do this, they lift, carry, and restack the over-70 cases on new pallets...
So, in order to avoid handling 70 lb cases, they handle 70 lb cases.
This is what happens when special snowflakes start working in warehouses.
Now, if only they had some sort of devices that were either battery or a propane powered that could be used to lift those pallets full of heavy cases in transport them around the warehouse instead of lifting them.
This may be the case, but if so, it seems more than a little short-sighted to design conveyors to be incapable of carrying a weight that a reasonably healthy adult male can lift easily.
Especially for products like fresh meat which can be very dense and highly variable in weight. (My example was a load of fresh packaged meat.)
So, you might be right, but if so, it just means they were stupid in a different way, LOL.
When I worked for Michelin in Lexington, SC. I picked up and transferred 50-100 lb mylar and cloth rolls from a pallet and installed them on rewinding machines continuously for entire shifts for a few months.
For a fit young man, or even a strong young woman, 70 lb lifts are a joke.
If the heaviest thing you lift regularly is a 12-pack of Mountain Dew, then perhaps it might be a strain.
Might be some legal or union thing with the 70lbs. UPS considers anything 70lbs or over to be Overweight, they charge extra for it, and you are supposed to notify them in advance
This is not as far-fetched as most of you might think. I am a truck driver. A couple years ago, I delivered to a Ralphs stores distribution center in California. LA area I think, but it might have been San Diego.
They have a policy that no case of product can be over 70 lbs. They will refuse anything over 70 lbs, and put it back on the delivery truck.
To do this, they lift, carry, and restack the over-70 cases on new pallets...
So, in order to avoid handling 70 lb cases, they handle 70 lb cases.
This is what happens when special snowflakes start working in warehouses.
Now, if only they had some sort of devices that were either battery or a propane powered that could be used to lift those pallets full of heavy cases in transport them around the warehouse instead of lifting them.
I know, right?
Maybe, as Trump has suggested, they could even put said devices on wheels so they can easily roll too.
If it was a DC then it is more likely that the conveyor's wont support that weight. I say this as a maintenance tech at a DC myself.
This may be the case, but if so, it seems more than a little short-sighted to design conveyors to be incapable of carrying a weight that a reasonably healthy adult male can lift easily.
Especially for products like fresh meat which can be very dense and highly variable in weight. (My example was a load of fresh packaged meat.)
So, you might be right, but if so, it just means they were stupid in a different way, LOL.
70 pounds is not something easily lifted, especially onto conveyor belt and en masse. try doing that for 8 hours and you will quit after one day.
When I worked for Michelin in Lexington, SC. I picked up and transferred 50-100 lb mylar and cloth rolls from a pallet and installed them on rewinding machines continuously for entire shifts for a few months.
For a fit young man, or even a strong young woman, 70 lb lifts are a joke.
If the heaviest thing you lift regularly is a 12-pack of Mountain Dew, then perhaps it might be a strain.
Might be some legal or union thing with the 70lbs. UPS considers anything 70lbs or over to be Overweight, they charge extra for it, and you are supposed to notify them in advance