It's a Team's Life
Creative Load Securement
Our niche in the trucking industry is to keep a plant productive until a tractor-trailer arrives with the amount of product a customer needs. Our load usually consists of a couple of pallets that comes nowhere close to filling up our box.
In ten years of Expediting I can only think of a couple of times when the box of our truck has been full. We carry a lot of freight handling equipment including a pallet jack, piano dollies, plywood to cover floors or build ramps, load bars, blankets, and various sizes of straps to name just a few things. The first two feet of our box is used to store everything we carry and the pallet jack is strapped to the inside of the box.
We take freight securement very seriously since we often carry such a small amount of freight. We have had pallets nailed to the floors, freight nailed to the inside of the wall of the box, had freight wrapped up in a blanket and then secured, and freight lined up down the center of the box with straps and load bars for securement. As a dry box we have it much easier then the refrigerated expedite trucks, as we do not have to worry about airflow.
With many of our loads the pallet jack is stowed away inside one of the pallets the freight sits on but not this time. This was a floor load and there was not an inch of room to spare to put the pallet jack back into the box. Bob put on his thinking cap and figured out a way to secure the pallet jack.
Everything rode fine and as soon as we unloaded the pallet jack went back into its customary place of honor.
Bob & Linda Caffee
TeamCaffee

Saint Louis MO
Expediters since January 2005
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