The 1 pallet in the nose rule

Lmao

 

We (me) unloaded them with a 10k pound skid steer. I believe they were loaded the same way. Occasionally some of the pallets were 5000-5500 pounds. That’s real fun trying pickup with a skid steer.

 

Yeah we would drag them to the back and have the big loader drive up the dock and pick them up. It was a dumb experiment that only lasted a few loads. Besides the Too heavy pallets, the pallets kept collapsing. We rarely had that issue when loaded on a flatbed.

 

I've read this whole thread.

Did I miss the disclosure of the evil shipper?

Most of the time 1 in the nose then doubled works, especially for the communist state.

Sometimes 1-2-1.

ISO standard tries to keep everything at 1 ton a pallet.

 

This can of worms came out of a shipping container, when it was stuffed inside the shipping container the total combination of container, cargo and tractor was 87,000 lbs, putting it on the flatbed meant it "only" had a gross of 84,000. Pallets upon pallets of rolls upon rolls of plastic sheeting for building houses.

 

If you're ever feeling ambitious, watch a shipper stuff 1,800 bags of popcorn into a 20' shipping container