Pallet configuration for heavy loads?

1,2,1,2,2.... works well for moving a large amount of weight away from the nose. And yes sometimes the singles break up and fall over. A driver has to be diligent on checking the packing, wrapping, and placement of the pallets and/or noting shipper "packaged, loaded and or counted" on the the bill.

Does not move weight off the load quick enough. Trucks are getting heavier now days especially with emissions. It is too easy to overload both the steer and drives unless you move weight back right from the first row.

Load bars are far from secure and on these newer composite/duraplate trailers the walls flex like hell especially in the center of the trailer. Good luck keeping load bars up let alone securing a load.

 

All depends on what product and how its packaged... Bagged products it probably wouldn't make much difference... If it going to fall, then its going to fall.

I always sign my bols with "Shipper load and count" beside my name. And I don't abbreviate it in any way, So there is no confusion as to what it means.

 

don't forget not all pallets are the same size. European pallets come in lots of different sizes.
we get them in our warehouse ,I haul out of.

 

The position of a pallet really does not prevent a spill. The only way to prevent this is loadlocks and padding. Unfortunately drivers rarely make these loading decisions anymore. With the industry going to drop and hook and drivers being prohibited from loading docks it is just not something a driver can control. Yes there are exceptions but in all my years I rarely dictated to a forklift driver which pallet went where. All I could do is set my tandems according to the load and go weigh. Outside of raising holy hell if a heavy pallet was placed in that last 6 to 8 feet all I could do is just go weigh. If I had to return and have a load reworked then that is what I did. The last time I remember getting into this was in Georgia with a load of peanuts bound for Mars In NJ. They were loading 2 pallets side by side in the front of my trailer and I knew from experience that would not work. I actually stood in the door of my trailer blocking the loader until that got fixed. Blocking and pallet placement is just not something drivers do much anymore. Thankfully most of the time the people that are doing the loading know enough to load correctly. This is really not something to give much thought about. Load set tandems to be legal and go weigh. If your OK weight wise go deliver. If not get it reworked.

 

Yes. In the few times I did haul hazmat I told the boss over the loading if I could not supervise the loading I would not haul it. You are absolutely correct about responsibility. Still though there are many places that refuse to let a driver on the docks. The places that did this and used those doors you back into and they open and close the trailer doors from inside infuriated me. Another thing that irritated me was loaders that would jump off a dock close the doors and seal before you could get back after pulling forward. I started using a padlock and small chain to lock one door open. Most company drivers today hauling general dry van and reefer don't make loading decisions anymore. The sad part to all this is the fact few drivers could.

 

I got a funny look when I requested that a particularly heavy load be loaded a specific way... But they did load it that way once I explained that if it wasn't I wouldn't be leaving the dock until it was.