The Best Practices to Consider when Loading LTL and FTL to Avoid Damages, retail chargebacks, freight claims, damage claims and rejected loads

This is another best practice to keep in mind while you’re doing LTL or FTL. We all know that LTL is less than truckload and FTL is full truck load, the full truckload it’s always point A to point B, you load the truck to the fullest and then close it, lock it, and seal it. The loading process should be done carefully with air pillows and load bars/ cargo bars.

If it makes sense to strap, apply the strap, this is all pretty standard for FTL.  After you lock it and then seal it, take the picture of the seal with the conditions of the load before closing the door and upload them to LoadProof. Whoever has any question, you can immediately show them the condition of the product when it left your facility, so you can prove you did your job right. In the LTL scenario you’re loading in the last-in, first-out sequence.

You are loading in a reverse top sequence so if you are making 10 stops in a town the last stop goes first that means it’s all the way to the deep end of the trailer and then the next one. The first one is kept at the front, so what happens is the driver goes to the first stop, drops off the first set of pallets and then goes to the second stop and drops off the second.

They’re going to maximize this cube and they’re going to load it as tightly as they can to reduce the number of trips they need to do. While doing that you have to realize that there is way too much handling that’s happening to all these LTL pallets. So it’s important to recognize the fact that too much handling happening, so if you are applying some kind of a shrink wrapping the it needs to be pretty tight and high quality compared shrink wrapping for a FTL because too much of handling is happening and also depending on the weight the gauge of the shrink wrapping, the plastic sheet that you’re using, the thickness of the sheet should be able to handle the weight of the product that you’re transporting that’s very important.

So if you’re transferring a really heavy product then you have to shrink-wrap it with a 100 gauge plus sheet because that’s the one that can handle the most weight and if it’s a less weight I have the product then you can go with the 65 or 75 gauge thickness so that’s very important to keep in mind if it’s LTL. It’s a lot more handling so you’ve to recognize and probably pack it and load it appropriately with whatever straps or whatever packing technique you might use.

Recognize the fact that LTLs require more handling, sometimes the truck driver may have to unload it in the second stop or third stop and he has to move some pallets to get the pallet out. However efficiently they do it I’ve seen many times when I have been to these DC’s and they either dropped it off or they got some pallets loaded onto their truck. During this time they usually park it in a corner of the DC campus and they’ll be sorting things, and adjusting things, and covering things.

Sometimes these drivers don’t even have access to the dock I mean in the FTL scenario they cannot even see what is loaded so they just go pull it to the dock door and then everybody loads the pallet into the container by the shipper they ship they load everything and then they closed the door and they take pictures of the driver doesn’t even have visibility to it all he has to do is drive and go to the destination and then drop off. But in the LTL scenario they make multiple stops and then they deliver. Sometimes after the delivery they stop in the corner of a campus within the yard area and then they adjust things.

They take pictures and they make sure for the rest of the distance wherever they need to go everything is held up pretty well, nothing is going to fall off and nothing is going to shake and get scratches and things like that. That’s something very important to keep in mind that if you are shipping LTL you’ve got to be a lot more careful and a lot more packing is needed because a lot more handling happens and it’s vulnerable to damages. Whereas in FTL it’s point A to point B, nobody’s touching in the middle unless your trailer gets stolen and that happens too. We’ve heard some crazy stories where there was this trailer full of car batteries that was shipped and somehow it just disappeared and then later they found the trailer with half the batteries missing.

So that happens as well so I know in a normal scenario that’s an exception obviously, so in a normal scenario that won’t happen so that’s something to keep in mind if it’s LTL. Recognize the fact that it needs more handling so even more shrink-wrapping  needs to be applied. Also take into account the weight of the product that they’re shipping and make sure to apply the shrink-wrapping, and also make sure that the right gauge of the shrink-wrapping material is applied. Add any comments in the comments section below and let us know if there is anything else that we can do for you and thank you for your time.

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Puga Sankara is the Founder, CEO of Smart Gladiator LLC. Smart Gladiator designs, builds, and delivers market-leading mobile technology for retailers, distributors, and 3PL service providers. So far, Smart Gladiator LoadProof has been used to ship, receive, and scan more than 100 million boxes. SG LoadProof is a patent pending Centralized Enterprise Photo/Video Document System on Cloud for Supply Chain. SG LP is built on the fact that photos & videos are vital docs as important as POs/SOs/Legal Contracts/Fulfillment Orders that reside in ERP/WMS/TMS systems, that serve as compelling, conclusive, unequivocal proof of crucial, critical, vital operations executed in Supply Chain within/across orgs when fulfilling customer orders as well as meeting contractual obligations between orgs as merchandise is transferred between different parties that partake in Supply Chain functions & operations. And these photos/videos data should not be stored in someone’s Smartphone or Email Inbox or in their personal/work Computer, but should be stored in a Centralized Enterprise system, where such data can be pushed into super-fast, stored securely, accessible to all stake holders (CFO/Sales Reps/Customer Support/AR/AP) in an org, as well as facilitates super-fast retrieval/sharing. LP is an Enterprise System of record for Photo/Video docs & is as important as an ERP which is an enterprise system of record for POs, SOs, Legal Contracts between parties etc. that have huge legal ramifications, also as important as a WMS (Warehouse Management System) that hold indispensable shipment & fulfillment data on orders. Like how Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat etc. have evolved into social media platforms/systems that enable individuals to showcase their beauty/pretty clothes/lovely cosmetics/hep coolness etc., LoadProof is an Enterprise system that holds similar photos/videos, but for a different reason, not for show off, but to serve as compelling, conclusive, unequivocal & indisputable system of record and proof that can be presented even in the court of law, when there is a dispute between parties while they execute many facets of the Supply Chain functions & operations. SG LoadProof is also an Enterprise System of Record for Photos, videos and any other digital documents for your Supply Chain Network. A system of record (SOR) or source system of record (SSoR) is a data management term for an information storage system (commonly implemented on a computer system running a database management system) that is the authoritative data source for a given data element or piece of information. The need to identify systems of record can become acute in organizations where management information systems have been built by taking output data from multiple source systems, re-processing this data, and then re-presenting the result for new business use. In these cases, multiple information systems may disagree about the same piece of information. These disagreements may stem from semantic differences, differences in opinion, use of different sources, and differences in the timing of the extract, transform, and load processes that create the data they report against, or may simply be the result of bugs. The integrity and validity of any data set is open to question when there is no traceable connection to a good source, such as a known System of Record. Where the integrity of the data is vital, if there is an agreed system of record, the data element must either be linked to, or extracted directly from it. In other cases, the provenance and estimated data quality should be documented. The “system of record” approach is a good fit for environments where both: 1. there is a single authority over all data consumers, and 2. all consumers have similar needs Here, LoadProof is the System of Record for pictures and videos for all the entities in Supply chain who uses pictures and videos to track using any Supply Chain System infrastructure. 1. LoadProof provides accurate, thorough, complete, and latest information in pictures and videos related to any entity in the Supply chain that is tracked. 2. LoadProof is the single authority on pictures and videos related to any entity in the Supply Chain that is tracked 3. LoadProof doesn’t let any external system to copy the records being stored in it, which eliminates the data being duplicated in multiple places to preserve the data integrity and credibility. 4. LoadProof has a secured login procedure which lets only users with select level access to view the data and modify the records which helps in maintaining LoadProof is becoming the Industry Standard System for Photo & Video Docs for Supply Chain Smart Gladiator is located in ATDC - Advanced Tech Dev Center (tech Incubator) in Georgia Institute of Tech. Click for a demo - https://loadproof.com/apply Puga is a supply chain technology professional with more than 25 years of experience in deploying capabilities in the logistics and supply chain domain. His prior roles involved managing complicated mission-critical programs driving revenue numbers, rolling out a multitude of capabilities involving more than a dozen systems, and managing a team of 30 to 50 personnel across multiple disciplines and departments in large corporations such as Hewlett Packard. He has deployed WMS for more than 30 distribution centers in his role as a senior manager with Manhattan Associates. 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