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b'Hello all and Thank you for coming back and listening in today, I\\u2019m Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career & we really appreciate you checking in with us. For those of you just joining us, or are first time listeners, gosh I guess this will be Episode 34 already, our show is all about getting into the warehousing or transportation and the Operations fields. We discuss a lot of the positions, talk about the tasks themselves, how to perform the jobs and more importantly how to plan for advancement or prepare for that next position or next step, I guess we talk quite a bit about all the opportunities of our industry and try and suggest some keywords to use with your management teams and letting them know you want a career and not just a job! Please don\\u2019t be too harsh on us concerning our audio skills, we\\u2019re trying to learn, working hard on it honestly! Remember me and my quests aren\\u2019t speakers or radio personalities, we\\u2019re Op\\u2019s people, we have done the jobs, our guests, in many instances are performing the tasks themselves and are just volunteering to share their thoughts. We don\\u2019t claim to be experts, but we have got the experiences and we share our thoughts and probably too often our opinions about most things. We encourage you to participate in our discussions and invite your comments and questions, we love researching the answers and talking about the topics. We have absolutely nothing to sell you and aren\\u2019t working to anyone\\u2019s agenda.
\\nAll that being said let\\u2019s find a topic for today. Let\\u2019s see, 2 weeks ago we had our 2nd quarter roundtable talk with a bunch of us Op\\u2019s guys, JG brought up how most all positions in warehousing actually touches other positions and how he felt an employee should probably know what has happened to the product before we deal with it and what happens with it after it leaves us. He mentioned the loading position, a very important job, and I feel Loading is one of those great jobs to break into the field and there\\u2019s a lot we can learn about warehousing while performing the task.
\\nIn many industries, Loading can be a General Labor position, and it\\u2019s one of those positions that can teach us a bit about warehousing and can be a great spring board or entry level position getting us in the door and giving us the opportunity to start our plan of advancement & reaching our short term goals.
\\nLoading trucks and containers is physical work, even if loading at your facility typically means running pallets of product in a trailer with a forklift or pallet jack it can mean handling the product by hand in one way or another, restacking & wrapping the pallets and in many industries loading or stacking every case by hand, in the right order or by stops so the driver can unload the merchandise in the most efficient way possible.
\\nIn your typical distribution center we\\u2019ll be dealing with several hundred different items broken down into several orders so we could be hand stacking the product in a trailer. Many times our selectors are palletizing the product and actually stacking it by stop, or trying to keep each stop as together as possible for the driver. A lot of today\\u2019s facilities use a WMS or Selection system, instructing the selectors or pickers exactly what part of the pallet or zone of the pallet to place the case, keeping the stops separated for us.
\\nAs you can imagine the loading position carries with it quite a bit of responsibility. We may have to use electric pallet jacks, sit down forklifts or other pieces of powered industrial equipment so we\\u2019ll need to be trained and certified to do so. This is another one of those opportunities for me to remind you to never touch or get on or attempt to operate a piece of equipment or machine you have not yet been trained to do so. Actually with this position possibly exposing us to equipment usage and training I believe it\\u2019s a great break thru position into warehousing.'