Stack Your Pallets like a Pro with these Best Practices

Stack Your Pallets like a Pro with these Best Practices | LoadProof

This is another best practice that you could use to make sure that nobody stacks anything on top of your pallet. If you are shipping anything on top of your pallet, it may be a specific product or few pallets through a carrier, this often happens. When you ship something to your retailer and obviously the retailers have a large volume of products that they sell through their stores.

They pick up the products from their vendor as well, so what they do is they optimize using something called dynamic routing. They optimize that pickup and then they bid those transportation contracts to carriers and the carriers take the contracts and they follow a fashion in picking. They go to stop 1 pickup 2 to 3 pallets, and then go to stop 2, pick up 2 to 3 pallets and then go to stop 3, so like that they are picking up and they might come to you. If you have a really nice product and you are manufacturing that product and you are selling it through a retailer they will come to you and you got to ship it through that carrier.

At that time of shipping if you have a certain product you don’t want anybody to stack on top of that product you have to clearly put that notice saying do not stack. We had a very interesting customer, they had a bathroom vanity, it’s a fancy bathroom vanity. The top of the vanity is a porcelain or something of a heavy material, that’s a polished material where the faucet goes on. That portion is heavy and the bottom portion is light so they would put all kinds of notes saying that they do not stack and they will also do extra packing and all.

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