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This best practice should be followed while loading. Loading is an important function when you’re shipping something to a customer or a retailer. You could have done a great job picking the order, packing the order, stacking the boxes in the pallets nicely all that you could have done, but if you don’t load your products or merchandise or pallets properly all the work that you’ve done is going to go away.

It’s because when a bunch of boxes are stacked in pallets and when they travel in the truck there are a lot of bumps on the road. I mean the truck will have all the best shock absorbers and all that but in spite of that there are a lot of bumps on the road and there is a lot of traffic and there are obviously crazy drivers. 

When the driver is driving and when he is applying brakes and when he is going over steep hills there are g-forces that act on the product that you shipped. The product tends to move, shake, and tends to fall. It’s very important that you get to load it properly and that’s what we are learning from LoadProof. All these warehouse managers are doing a great job loading but somehow damages happened to the product. I mean it could be an inadvertent mistake by someone else or somehow that happens. 

It’s important that loading is done correctly and especially if you’re shipping expensive items like refrigerators I mean we got these customers that should be really massive AC units in the flatbed trucks they ship. They use videos to take pictures of the condition of the product before it leaves their facility because they can show proof to their customers and say “hey look at this we did our job right right”, so people often don’t realize how important this load and packing is. Keeping all these g-forces, all the things that happen when pallets travel on the truck it’s important to secure them nicely. It’s important again in understanding the difference between parcel and pallet shipping. We all know that a parcel is a small box and as long as you put the box to the UPS or FedEx driver they take care of it from there. 

But if it’s a pallet and if you’re shipping through some carrier then you got to really do a great job packing I mean the shrink wrapping. Obviously you’ve done a great job packing the pallet, but you got to shrink wrap the pallet and after loading you got to make sure the things don’t move. So one of the most effective tools to make sure that the pallets don’t move is something called the loading bar, it’s also called a tie bar or a load bar. After you load your refrigerator or TV or whatever it is, you put the load bar and then make sure you lock and secure that thing with this load bar.

There are many different varieties of load bars, there are some sophisticated one’s with the ratchet and pinion mechanism and you can lock it in. Some securely hold with the rubber pads and things like that. The loading bar is very useful because it secures the merchandise tightly so even if the truck shakes and even if it’s a bump they don’t move or shake. 

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