Types of Loading.

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3-81. Types of Loading.

National Standards Institute standards loaded with

general commodities will also use conventional blocking

a. Wheeled containers. Closed trucks and trailers

and bracing methods.

should be considered as large containers on wheels; as

such, the interior bracing or blocking of the vehicle

b. Adaptability of vehicles. The truck and trailer is

should conform as nearly as possible to the packing of

adaptable to the many and various types of loads

individual containers. Through the use of filler material,

required to move the varied types of commodities such

bracing, blocking, separation gates, and layer

as heavy or light items, fragile, bulky, compact, dense

separators, it is possible to adapt the wide variety of

and rough, and high center of gravity items. In order to

items to the dimensions of the vehicle. Interior blocking

accommodate this variety of items, the shipper must

and bracing provides cushioning and interior packaging

plan the load, properly prepare the truck, and block and

to the material in this wheeled container and also

brace accordingly. One method of preparing a truck for

protects the vehicle. Cargo containers of ISO/American

shipment of cylindrical items is shown by figure 339.

Figure 3-39. Preparatory shoring for cylindrical items.

lengthwise crosswise methods for loading bagged

c. Unit loads. There are many types of loads

materials. However, the key sack method of loading is

suitable for truck loading (i.e., the bonded block load for

restricted to cloth bags and is not recommended for

materials shipped in fiberboard containers); brick wall

multiwall paper sacks.

method; key sack method; paper retaining method; and

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