Have You Strapped Your Loads Correctly while Shipping?

Have You Strapped Your Loads Correctly while Shipping? | LoadProof

This is another best practice that you can use in your warehouse. I think this is more for a LTL (less than truckload) like a within a town delivery. You are not doing a long-haul driving like 100 miles or 200 miles you’re making in town delivery in a LTL fashion. For example, if there is expensive furniture that you’re delivering and you don’t want it to get scratches and dents, if it’s a minor damage while you’re moving or while you are loading it on the truck and so forth, you can obviously cover the furniture with the nice cloth and then strap them to your trailer itself.

It’s again common sense if you think about it, but again the 3PL people know this pretty well. If you are new to this type of shipping this is something that you want to think. This is something that you want to think about while you’re loading to make sure that your product gets delivered in a pristine condition with no damages, scratches, and dents. With all that traffic that’s going on with all the crazy drivers on the road and based on the condition of the road when a driver applies brakes there are so many G-Forces that get applied on the product.

If the product is not an even shaped product then it slides in all different ways so you would cover the thing with a nice cloth and then strap the product. You can tie the straps in different areas of the product with the cloth cover and then tie that to the walls of the trailer itself, so that it doesn’t move, shake, or fall off. It’s secured nicely so that it stays in place and all kinds of things happen when we load.

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