Set a New Company Record Last Week -
We put out 58 Tractor trailer, trailers in 2 shifts. [Custom, high end - Dry Vans.] (Total of 18 hours.) Ours, an 8 hour shift.(5 day work week.) Night shift a 10 hour shift. (4 day work week.)
[Last Thursday.]
We try to get a completed Trailer out the door, every 24 minutes on average. (Some take longer due to custom options the buyer has asked for.) It is usually balls to the wall, all day, everyday.
We had an hour lunch today, (normally a 1/2 hour lunch.) With a catered Steak dinner, grilled ribeye, baked potatoe, butter/sour cream, yeast roll, green beans, strawberry shortcake, etc.
It was nice, very good. We usually eat a catered meal every Wed. when we make our production goals. 95% or higher. The higher the %, the better the meal.
It is better than nothing.
[Last Thursday.]
We try to get a completed Trailer out the door, every 24 minutes on average. (Some take longer due to custom options the buyer has asked for.) It is usually balls to the wall, all day, everyday.
We had an hour lunch today, (normally a 1/2 hour lunch.) With a catered Steak dinner, grilled ribeye, baked potatoe, butter/sour cream, yeast roll, green beans, strawberry shortcake, etc.
It was nice, very good. We usually eat a catered meal every Wed. when we make our production goals. 95% or higher. The higher the %, the better the meal.
It is better than nothing.
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sounds like work to me 0 -
mac10 wrote:sounds like work to me
We wash "New Hires," out like crazy. Some do not make it through a full shift. It is very strenuous, high intensity, stressfull, attention to detail, hurry, hurry etc. type work.
It is no joke.
For those that can hang, (about 350 per shift.) It pays better than anything else around here. Been here five years. I hope to retire in two more, at 60.
Profit share is pretty good.
11,000 Trailers made by our Company last year. (5 plants.)
10,500, the year before.0 -
There was a tire manufacturer here (Cooper), the plant voted down the union while the other plants voted it in, set all kinds of production records, given praise and thanks from the bosses.......they also were given the thank-yous from company officials by shutting down the work of 1200 local employees and shipping the equipment to their Mississippi plant.........be careful, don't work yourselves out of jobs 0 -
Junkballer wrote:There was a tire manufacturer here (Cooper), the plant voted down the union while the other plants voted it in, set all kinds of production records, given praise and thanks from the bosses.......they also were given the thank-yous from company officials by shutting down the work of 1200 local employees and shipping the equipment to their Mississippi plant.........be careful, don't work yourselves out of jobs
Believe me, a couple of us have been talking about that very thing.
The backside of what took place, in order to set that "Production Record, " was that several departments were absolutely screwed for the next several days.
Sidewalls, (especially.) Suspensions, front subs, rear subs, etc. etc. Screwed our production goals for the next three days. We were running out of critical parts, left and right.
The dirty little secret.0 -
The "indispensible" often find themselves very dispensable and first out the door. .0 -
Quick&Dead wrote:The "indispensible" often find themselves very dispensable and first out the door. .
While that may be true, our Company has been turning down Work/Order requests, because we can not make Trailers fast enough to meet Deadlines. We basically have more work/reaquests for our Product, than we can deliver, in a timely fashion.
Not a bad place to be in, as a Company.0 -
Junkballer wrote:There was a tire manufacturer here (Cooper), the plant voted down the union while the other plants voted it in, set all kinds of production records, given praise and thanks from the bosses.......they also were given the thank-yous from company officials by shutting down the work of 1200 local employees and shipping the equipment to their Mississippi plant.........be careful, don't work yourselves out of jobs
I retired from the Cooper Texarkana, AR plant in 2012. Was working there when that happened. We were really afraid we were going to be the one shut down. I was saddened that it had to happen, but in the corporate world, we (peons) don't get to make the decisions. Our plant has been unionized since 1970, we didn't have anything to do with shutting down the plant in Georgia. BTW- I have worked on both sides of the fence.0 -
grdad45 wrote:Junkballer wrote:There was a tire manufacturer here (Cooper), the plant voted down the union while the other plants voted it in, set all kinds of production records, given praise and thanks from the bosses.......they also were given the thank-yous from company officials by shutting down the work of 1200 local employees and shipping the equipment to their Mississippi plant.........be careful, don't work yourselves out of jobs
I retired from the Cooper Texarkana, AR plant in 2012. Was working there when that happened. We were really afraid we were going to be the one shut down. I was saddened that it had to happen, but in the corporate world, we (peons) don't get to make the decisions. Our plant has been unionized since 1970, we didn't have anything to do with shutting down the plant in Georgia. BTW- I have worked on both sides of the fence.
People like us, (The Workers) survive on the Ebb and Flow of Corporate decisions. (Well out of our control.)
It makes little sense, to those of us in the Trenches. We just keep our heads down, do our jobs, and carry on. What happens beyond that, is beyond our control.
I hope to retire in two years, when I am 60. (Fingers crossed.)0 -
Good for ya'll and I mean it.
Just remember stay in your lane and drive on.0 -
grdad45 wrote:Junkballer wrote:There was a tire manufacturer here (Cooper), the plant voted down the union while the other plants voted it in, set all kinds of production records, given praise and thanks from the bosses.......they also were given the thank-yous from company officials by shutting down the work of 1200 local employees and shipping the equipment to their Mississippi plant.........be careful, don't work yourselves out of jobs
I retired from the Cooper Texarkana, AR plant in 2012. Was working there when that happened. We were really afraid we were going to be the one shut down. I was saddened that it had to happen, but in the corporate world, we (peons) don't get to make the decisions. Our plant has been unionized since 1970, we didn't have anything to do with shutting down the plant in Georgia. BTW- I have worked on both sides of the fence.
After all said and done it was pointed out that NO local governments (city, county & state) was even buying/using Cooper tires on the many government owned vehicles .....Oops ! :oops: .....What a slap in the face to a large corporation pumping large amounts of money into your economy......... I don't fault Cooper at all for using that as a deciding factor, I would've packed my bags too 0 -
Junkballer wrote:grdad45 wrote:Junkballer wrote:There was a tire manufacturer here (Cooper), the plant voted down the union while the other plants voted it in, set all kinds of production records, given praise and thanks from the bosses.......they also were given the thank-yous from company officials by shutting down the work of 1200 local employees and shipping the equipment to their Mississippi plant.........be careful, don't work yourselves out of jobs
I retired from the Cooper Texarkana, AR plant in 2012. Was working there when that happened. We were really afraid we were going to be the one shut down. I was saddened that it had to happen, but in the corporate world, we (peons) don't get to make the decisions. Our plant has been unionized since 1970, we didn't have anything to do with shutting down the plant in Georgia. BTW- I have worked on both sides of the fence.
After all said and done it was pointed out that NO local governments (city, county & state) was even buying/using Cooper tires on the many government owned vehicles .....Oops ! :oops: .....What a slap in the face to a large corporation pumping large amounts of money into your economy......... I don't fault Cooper at all for using that as a deciding factor, I would've packed my bags too
WOW! We weren't told anything about that! I do know that our County Sheriff's, water company, and police cars are using CTR tires.0 -
There is a large Volvo truck plant near here.
Several employees have told me they regularly "complete" trucks with major parts missing because suppliers are behind schedule.
The trucks are set aside while the assembly line continues.
When the parts arrive, the trucks have to be broken down and the missing part(s) installed. Thus the trucks are completed...again.
Sounds like a shell game to me. :?:0
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