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Warehouse Truck Loading Best Practices: LTL vs FTL - YouTube
Channel: Smart Gladiator LoadProof
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so this is another best practice to keep
in mind while you're you know doing LTL
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or FTL right I mean we all know right I
mean LTL is less than truckload and FTL
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is full truck load and the full
truckload you know it's always point
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A to point B you load the truck to
the fullest and then you know close it
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lock it seal it and then boom it's gone
right and obviously right do the
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loading process carefully and do
anything else proof we need to put in
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air pillows - the air pillows if you
have to put in and the tie bars you know
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do the tie bars load bars cargo bars
or whatever however you guys call it and
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then also you know if you have to if it
makes sense to you know strap apply the
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strap you know do that right so that is
all you know pretty standard for FTL and
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you do that and you lock it and then
seal it take the picture of the seal
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take the picture of the you know like
how well you did before closing the door
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and upload them to load proof so whoever has
any question you can immediately show
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them hey this is the condition of the
product when it left our facility so you
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can prove you did your job right um so
that's FTL right relatively simple so on
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the LTL side so less than truckload what
happens is right it's less than
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truckload so usually what happens in the
LTL scenario is you know you're loading you
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know last in first-out right so you are
loading in a reverse top sequence so if
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you are making 10 stops in a town you
know the last stop you know goes first
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that means it's all the way of the deep
end of the trailer and then the next one
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next one next one next one the first one
is kept at the front so you know what
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happens so you know the driver goes the
first stop drops off the first set of
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pallets and then goes to the second you
know stop drops off the second it's not
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always clean right I mean they're
going to maximize this cube and they're
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gonna you know load it as tightly as
they can to you know not make to reduce
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the number of trips the trucks they
need to do so while doing that right you
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have to realize that there is way too
much handling that's happening to all
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these LTL pallets so it's important to
you know understand that right
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recognize the fact that hey there is way too
much handling happening so if you are
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applying some kind of a shrink wrapping
the shrink wrapping needs to be pretty
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tight and the higher quality compared to
a you know if you're doing shrink
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wrapping for a FTL right because
too much a handling is happening and
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also depending on the weight you are
gauge of the shrink wrapping that you're
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using right the sheet the PVC or
whatever you know plastic sheet that you're
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using the gauge also has to you know the
gauge is the thickness of the sheet so
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that needs to be able to handle the
weight of the product that you're
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transporting right that's very important
so if you're transferring a really heavy
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product then you have to shrink wrap it
with a you know 100 gauge Plus because
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that's the one that that can handle the
most weight and if it's a you know less
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weight I have the product then you can go
with the 65 75 gauge you know thickness
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so that's very important to keep in mind
right if it's LTL you know it's more lot
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more handling so you've got a you know
recognize that hey you know it's a lot
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more handling
think through that and you know packet a
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probably pack it and load it
appropriately right whatever straps or
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whatever you guys might use so
recognize the fact that LTLs require
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more handling you know sometimes
sometimes the truck driver may have to
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you know he went to the second stop or
third stop and he has to move some
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pallets to get the pallet out I mean
even though however efficiently they do
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it I've seen many times right many times
have been to these DC's and these guys
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either they dropped it off or they're
you know they just got you know a
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pallets loaded onto their truck they'll be
parked in a corner of the DC campus and
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they'll be like you know sorting things
and you know adjusting things and
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covering things up and things like that
so so that way they make sure hey you
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know all right you know sometimes
sometimes these drivers don't even have
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access to the dock I mean in the FTL's
scenario they cannot even see what is
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loaded so they just go pull it to the
dock door and then everybody loads the
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pallet and then I mean the the container
is loaded by the shipper they ship they
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load everything
and then they closed the door and they
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take pictures of the driver doesn't even
have visibility to it all he has to do
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is drive and go to the destination and
then drop off that's it but in the LTL
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scenario right they they make multiple
stops and then they deliver sometimes
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they after the delivery they stop in the
corner of the you know a campus within
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the yard area and then they adjust
things they take pictures and they make
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sure right for the rest of the distance
wherever they need to go everything is
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going on hold up pretty well right
nothing is going to fall off nothing is
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gonna shake and you know get scratches
and things like that so so that's
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something you know that's very important
to keep in mind that if you are shipping
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LTL you've got to be a lot more careful
and a lot more packing is needed because
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a lot more handling happens a lot more
you know a lot more it's vulnerable to
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you know damages so a lot more things
happening right a lot more action
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whereas an FTL it's point A to point B
nobody's touching in the middle unless
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right your your your trailer gets stolen
and that happens that happens too - we've
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had heard some crazy stories where there
was this you know trailer full of car
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batteries that was you know shipped and
somehow it just disappeared and then
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later they found the trailer half of the
batteries were missing so you know that
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happens as well so I know in a normal
scenario that's an exception obviously
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so in a normal scenario that won't
happen so that's something to keep in
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mind right if it's LTL recognize the
fact that it needs more handling so even
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more shrink-wrapping so you know and
apply the you know take into that take
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into account the weight of the product
that they're shipping and make sure
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apply the right you know shrink-wrapping
make sure the gauge of the
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shrink-wrapping material you know it can
handle the weight of the product that
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you transport right so yeah thank you
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