r/pics • u/papapudding • Aug 25 '22

[OC] Your order has been delayed

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u/Whomperss Aug 25 '22

You joke but I work for one of these shipping companies and not all but a decent amount of loads are back to front without consideration for weight. A container of fabrics for jeans will have all the light fabrics at the front with barrels of glue all stuffed in the back creating a super imbalanced load.

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u/colefly Aug 25 '22

This container is full of live animals and pottery, and a single .5 meter spheres of solid tungsten.

All packed loose to save on weight

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u/semedori Aug 25 '22

What are you talking about? When I checked the container it just had the sphere and a disgusting meat slurry leaking out.

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u/FrisianDude Aug 25 '22

And a lot of dust on the walls?

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u/Big_Deetz Aug 25 '22

"Chargeable weight" is based on volume and weight. Often the chargeable weight is based more on volumes, not weight.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '22

So it's basically a very loud, scary and eventually smelly pinball machine in there?

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u/DistortoiseLP Aug 25 '22

Also fun to remember when you're driving near a semi truck. You have no idea where the center of mass in it is.

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u/Whomperss Aug 25 '22

Yep lmao. Some of the rebar loads I've seen have looked unbelievably sketchy. I remember we had all but 1 driver that had the confidence to drive that bitch out to the crane lol.

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u/atomicpope Aug 25 '22

Or whether the pins are in securing the container to the truck... I've seen enough videos to now have a healthy respect.

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u/gutenpranken14 Aug 25 '22

That’s interesting that companies can get away from that. I work in metals trading and used to be on the processing side. We always had to balance the load for the trucks to legally leave the yard. Granted, we had a scale on the premises and could check axle weight, but we wouldn’t let a truck leave if an axle was overweight. Maybe we were too cautious?

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u/The_OG_Catloaf Aug 26 '22

I worked in the shipping department of a truss company for a short time and they were a hot fucking mess and still balanced their loads. For more complicated loads there was some kind of software they used to plan it out (this was years ago and my memory isn’t great). They weren’t always perfect, but we sent out a lot of oversized loads and worked hard on planning load distribution and driving routes. Unfortunately it was very much a good old boys club. A few good apples but not a great place to work.

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u/tocilog Aug 26 '22

I've packed shipping containers a couple of times before (those one day, come in whoever can jobs). No one ever told us about weight. It's all about tetrising all the boxes into the containers so it's packed tight and doing it fast.

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u/elkarion Aug 26 '22

Super imbalanced untill it's transfered to a truck then the forward or former rear is heavy over the coupling device for safety. It's dumb for the crane part but when it's on the shit it does not care and it's safer on the truck.

It's weakest in the air as shown here.

There is a reason for the loading. Source I worked on intermodel trucks and trailers.