This job supplements his day job as a machinist in a Fort Worth auto body shop. He wanted work that didn't disappear when the economy turned sour. While White and his crew unload the planes, the pilots get picked up in air-conditioned coaches and driven to a lounge in the administration building. There, they can drink coffee, rock back in some lounge chairs and watch television or catch up on paperwork in the two hours they'll be on the ground. Once unloaded from the airplanes, the full cargo containers are taken to a staging area outside the main sorting facility.
Workers there control the flow of packages going in to be sorted.
A backup anywhere in the process can cause delay ripples further along in the system. From there, it'll be inside to what workers simply call The Sort. Computer science, to be precise. Tugs, each pulling four loaded cargo carts, stop at an unloading station. Workers empty the containers, positioning each package so scanners can read the bar code.