12-06-2021, 09:36 PM
(11-30-2021, 11:31 AM)fredtoast Wrote: I got paid pretty well, but the work was brutal. The trailers were all packed with random stuff. Sometimes you would get a trailer with boxes of hats that weighed nothing, but one time I got a truck loaded with grave marker slabs that weighed like 50 lbs each. Stripping out the cargo was hard work but you could do it fast. Loading was brutal because there were so many random sized packages it was like putting a puzzle together to get them all loaded. And if you didn't do it fast enough the conveyor belt backed up.
The shifts started at 4 AM. They only lasted about 4-5 hours but it backbreaking labor.
I used to load and unload luggage from airplanes. It was the most brutal job I've ever worked. It's like you said, sometimes stuff ways a few pounds. Other times, it's a suitcase filled with 90 pounds of spices from the Middle East coming in from the late international flights or worse, a small airplane tire. All that plus dealing with whatever shitty weather CVG was experiencing at the time was zero fun at all.
