Letter to the Editor: Loading Efficiency

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river delays at loading docks have been and will be a major roadblock in adhering to the hours-of-service rules. Shippers and receivers must give the courtesy of unloading or loading in a timely fashion. Shippers and receivers should not demand impractical transit times.

Not having the freight ready to load, or not adhering to delivery appointments, is not good business practice. Rate increases will not resolve the issue, only exacerbate it.

It is the loading dock that needs to be made accountable.

Attitudes and habits of dock personnel must be changed. Senior management at these facilities must make and enforce rules of courtesy and fairness in seeing that drivers are loaded or unloaded within strict time constraints.

These delays affect all parties to the shipment, not only the drivers. Senior management must get involved and enforce good business ethics for everyone.

Jack J. Hanus

I>Logistics Instructor

ox Valley Technical College

ppleton, Wis.

This letter appeared in the Dec. 1 print edition of Transport Topics. Subscribe today.