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TM 38-400/NAVSUP PUB 572/AFMAN 23-210 MCO 4450.14/DLAM 4145.12
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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