Vehicle loading
How many pallets fit on a lorry and a standard trailer?
For a KRONE trailer, the calculation gives 33 EPAL 1, 34 only geometrically, or 26 EPAL 2. Check the dimensions and layout constraints.
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Cargo safety
How to secure pallets and cargo in transport?
Learn the principles of pallet stabilization, choosing securing methods, and fastening cargo in a vehicle, and check what to assess before transport.
Pallets & packing
Royal Mail size bands and the cap that really decides
Letter, Large Letter, Small Parcel, Medium Parcel - and why the weight limit, not the space, is what usually stops you.
Vehicle loading
Chargeable weight: how many kg per loading metre?
Groupage carriers charge around 1,750 kg per loading metre. What chargeable weight means and when the invoice stops following the floor space.
Pallets & packing
How to choose the right box size
A box size is ordered once but paid for on every parcel. Where "length × width × height" fails and how to pick a size you can defend with numbers.
Pallets & packing
Euro pallet weight - EUR and industrial pallets
An empty EUR pallet weighs about 25 kg, an EPAL 2 about 35 kg. What moves those figures and how to turn them into gross shipment weight.
Pallets & packing
Industrial pallet 1200 × 1000 mm
EPAL 2 measures 1200 × 1000 × 162 mm and carries 1250 kg - but not every 1200 × 1000 pallet is an EPAL 2. When the wider base actually pays off.
Pallets & packing
Pallet types and sizes
From the 1200 × 800 mm euro pallet to the 1219 × 1016 mm US pallet - what each standard means and how to choose the right format.
Pallets & packing
How to stack boxes on a pallet
Even layers, weight low, no overhang - the rules plus three worked layer patterns for EUR and industrial pallets.
Containers
How many pallets fit in a container?
11 euro pallets in a 20', 23-25 in a 40', and why a High Cube changes the height but not the floor plan.
Vehicle loading
How many pallets fit on a rigid, drawbar and artic?
18 euro pallets on a 7.2 m rigid, 36-38 on a drawbar, 33 on a 13.6 m artic - and why payload runs out before the floor does.
Vehicle loading
How to make a load plan
What data to collect, how to set the loading order and how to tell a workable layout from one that only looks right on paper.