Save your breath, RUM! Jim Little, er, I mean bingobilly is a pro TWU desperate sort who knows the end is nearing for the traditional airline unions favoring the non mechanic craft and class.
He's obviously not a mechanic because he used the term "grease monkey" Why give him the time of day?
Little, sorry, I mean bingobilly would also have you believe that the fleet service actually know weight and balance because they go to a computer and hit a few keys and retrieve the information that Load Planner entered in the system.
By the way, Jim, oops, bingo, to this day I get at least 2 calls a week from outbound crews calling maintenance to inspect the nose gear after the highly skilled line cargo technicans broke the towbar. I don't see the flight crews asking the line cargo people to inspect the gear. Several weeks ago, the Line Cargo technician broke the tow lug clean off the aircraft. So we took a hefty delay swapping the aft tow lug to the front.
They have had pushbacks since the TWU handed them over in 1983. Not exactly quick learners, eh Jim? Sorry, silly me, bingobilly!