3PL Warehouse Loading Best Practices

3PL Warehouse Loading Best Practices | LoadProof

This is another best practice that you can follow while you’re loading your products in the trailer container. It’s always important to do a great job loading and obviously your team did a great job picking the product, boxing the product, and then nicely stacking them in pallets. The pallets are then shrink-wrapped and ready to go.

It’s important to load them perfectly because while the truck or the trailer is going there are a lot of bumps on the road, there’s a lot of traffic and the truck could go steep uphill and steep downhill. I’ve driven so much in the Tennessee area, into the mountains and all kinds of things happen. When all these happen there are G forces that act on the merchandise that you’ve shipped which could shake the product and also tilt the product sometimes.

If you have expensive SKUs, these unnecessary shakes can still create damages. Even though the truck or the trailer might have the best shock absorber it’s not a good thing as your product might get damaged or it might not arrive in the condition that it should have arrived at the destination. So it’s very important to make sure that they’re loaded correctly, this another best practice while you’re loading the product is using something called air pillows or the dunnage pillows or the vinyl pillows.

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