Load Building
What goes on one vehicle and where on the deck each pallet sits — drawn, so a planner can see whether it fits before promising a date.
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Load Builder
The deck, drawn to scale, with every pallet where it actually sits. Drag one and the weight, the cube, the floor use and the axle loading follow, because the picture and the arithmetic are the same fact.
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Loads
One vehicle worth of freight. Utilization is the whole point: a trailer at sixty per cent is forty per cent of the freight bill spent carrying air.
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Vehicle Types
The kinds of vehicle a plan may use. The inside dimensions are the load builder’s canvas: it draws exactly that rectangle and fits pallets into it.
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Vehicles
One actual vehicle, owned, leased or the carrier’s. The compliance dates sit on the master because each of them expiring grounds it.
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Drivers
Who drives. The hours are the point: a driver out of hours is a load that does not go, and scheduling a run that breaks the rules is the most expensive mistake a transport planner can make.
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