When the reclaim board is honest and the belt is late
First-bag times on a public board can be honest about the schedule and still wrong about the hall. If the loader is on a remote stand, the belt is empty while the coach is still coming. A drawing that only shows “Belt 3 — on time” teaches the desk to look calm while the mouth of the hall fills.
We mark remote-stand coach arrivals as their own strip. It is not pretty. It stops the duty desk from reading the inbound list as a hall forecast. Last-bag is worse: it is a loader’s world, and we only write it after watching an evening bank, never from a timetable footnote.
Hall density is the argument. Two wide-bodies twelve minutes apart need a steward at the carousel mouth, not a nicer typeface. Our board shows where people stand when they are angry, which is usually the lift and the glass, not the belt they were told to use.