[EricH]

Originally Posted by rsisk

OK, another question(s) about the bagging system for shipping the robot.

When you bag the robot, does that mean you are responsible for getting it all the way to the pit area?

I'm pretty sure the arenas in SoCal use union labor to move the robot from the loading dock to the pit. The teams are not allowed to make that move themselves.

So do bagged robots get delivered to the loading dock? Or to the pit? Depends on the venue? How did it work in MI?

I'm pretty sure that it's because the crates need to be moved with either a pallet jack or a forklift, which are usually operated by union employees. With a bagged robot, you don't have a crate, so you can put it on a cart and roll it in. (Also, you should have stuck around for loading the truck in L.A. this year-- at one point, a higher-up told the union guys that we didn't need their help to get the field into the truck, as there was a simple ramp and it was taking forever. They concentrated on the other truck--the show stuff--and we loaded the crates in a very short of time.)