ELD mandate highlights importance of efficient dock practices - 4 tips to save valuable dock time
With the ELD mandate deadline looming, managing more than just on duty drive time becomes vitally important to everyone in the transportation industry. Here are some tips for shipping and dock staff to ensure that they aren’t holding up the valuable on duty ‘not driving’ time for drivers and their companies. If you’re a driver, you know the routine. You have a scheduled dock appointment, you arrive on time only to find a line up at the dock and now your entire day, and trip are going to be off, delaying your entire route. This results in throwing off delivery times at the other end with no legal on duty time and possible layover instead of valuable home time. This adds even more stress to an already very tight schedule. If you’re in shipping and on the dock, you know S&%t happens. Some drivers are late, some freight needs to be repacked or picked, forklifts break down, people call in sick, partial shipping lists. It happens but some of the delays are avoidable....
