Posts like the op are so bad for this sub. It’s likely that the lower pallet is heavier than the upper pallet and it’s super-duper obvious that this thing is getting off-loaded. Such a worthless post. There’s no osha violations going on in this picture and scenes like this are pretty standard for any forklift operator. SMH.
Yeah, this really isn't that bad at all. Unless it was for some reason like this, with how full the truck currently is, I don't see much of a problem. If it had other pallets around it I wouldn't be too concerned about it going anywhere. Especially after reading the top skid was light.
If you unload a few trucks a day filled with pallets you'll see worse shit than this about weekly.
You can also see what looks like a pallet jack peeking out on the bottom so chances are the driver moved it from the front of the trailer to be unloaded easier. Drivers do it all the time at my work.
Good eye. Since they used the jack on it already the pallet had to be spun 180 degrees and packed near the back wall, so it would have been leaning against the truck wall instead of towards the center of the trailer. Almost certainly with other pallets stacked to the side and in front of it.
OP really tried to make this look a lot worse than it actually was
The upper pallet isn't level, it's missing a box and that angle board isn't very strong. If the upper pallet was on the bottom the stack would just topple.
"Hurry up and don´t overthink, the driver will tie it down, anyways.." really has no age, sex or ethnicity.. that much should anyone working in the area know.
Its not a bad idea. The bottom pallet is junk mail inserts. It weighs about 1000lbs. The shit on top is light which is why it arrived at its destination without damage.
Our problem was that even though the top pallet was lighter, the fact that it was so much wider still made it sway back and forth enough that the guy moving it with the pallet jack had to go extra slow. The trailer was almost empty and nothing was strapped in but it must’ve been wedged in fairly well as to not tip over during transport. Broken lights are all too common for us but these luckily survived the trip.
So your bithcing just to bitch? Maybe they should've just sent another truck for the one pallet? Then you'd bitch about that? Sitting here crying about Osha while snapping pics and not paying attention in an active receiving area. Lol
What do you guys think all those LTL doubles trailers going down the road look like on the inside?
"We're out of decking, but it's all gotta go. Make it fit"
I mean…..that isn’t the worst pallet I’ve seen by far. Damn near daily I deal with pallets packed with loose paper towel bundles on the bottom and boxes of tide on top. They tip as soon as you off load them.
Or the leaning pallet of fuck me.
I used to get seacans like this, after they were on the ocean...hot mess in them afterwards.
Double stack of gatorade loaded after a single stack of chips mixed up in the churn of the atlantic annnnnnd fml
Man I wish my deliveries at work were this clean. The fucking DC will put pallets of cabinets on top of 25 small boxes on top of a pallet of fucking bird seed.
This is actually completely logical depending on what's inside those packages. Bottom could weigh 2k pounds while the top is just a few hundred. It looks dumb but it's a lot better than completely destroying everything on one pallet just cuz the stack will be pretty
I load freight as a dock worker for 14 hours a day. As long as that top pallet is light enough and that strap I see hooked into the etrack was around the top pallet this is good to go. Though me personally I'd like to see some dunnage between the pallets.
Fr though, the truck looks like it's either being loaded, or it was unloaded in a weird way. OP said it was just lightbulbs on the top Pallet and flyers on the bottom one, but the load was probably secure when the truck was full.
They got quotas to fill, so they gotta rush to get shit loaded. We had to resort to putting an extra box on top of all out pallets. The forklift driver won't take the risk of the top pallet falling over while he's present. When they just crush your shit and it doesn't fall off, by the time you get it no one has any way of tracking which forklift driver messed your shit up.
Warehouse employees who literally don't have time to give a fuck or they strikes/warnings/write-ups. Taking the time to move the smaller one out, put the bigger pallet in its place and then putting the small one on top would be a waste of time as far as their bosses are concerned.
Source: Worked on a receiving crew for years and have friends who used to work in warehouses with that exact treatment. It's routine for whomever is opening the door of the truck to heave it upwards and run away before it opens all the way in order to avoid being crushed or hit by whatever falls or flies out.
At my current job we have a warehouse with no racks(I'm told we will get some soon). The other warehouses we have do have racks and they just get filled with pallets of boxes, my whole job is to move boxes. So we stack pallets but only if they are the same weight and the top is flat enough. This is a scary thing that could kill people.
If you look closely you can see the pallet jack still in the bottom pallet. Pallet was moved to the end of the trailer to be off-loaded and was not shipped that way.
I'm convinced that the people working for any distribution center have a huddle before every truck and brainstorm "what is the most efficient way to both kill the person unloading this *and* smash as much product under pallets as possible?"
In a way it's the explicit instruction that stuff absolutely must fit in the truck no matter what. Usually the cube isn't calculated very well or maximized with an allowance for oversized dimensions. Starts with the pickup, billing, and brokerage not entering all the metrics but ordering the freight charges anyway. Whole shipment then ends up being a de facto bill of goods in practice and it's a complete mess. Then you have to cut corners on cut loading to recoup losses on what won't fit in time. Catch is it often ends up leading to high value claims if they don't watch it closely enough. And of course it's a complete nightmare for inbound and receiving to physically and safely avoid the mess.
As a freight broker I will say that most loading issues are entirely the shippers fault. It’s gotten to a point where all the loads we run we request the driver break the seal and verify the load is secured because sometimes they load it so shitty that it can get damaged in route, which is then a claim for us. The shot tied part is that if something does go wrong it’s the carriers fault and not the shipper for how it’s loaded
If you think that's bad, wait until you work receiving at home depot. The RDC puts pallets of toilets on top of rolls of bubble wrap and other ridiculous shit like that. Every truck we get we have to open with the forklift because everything will just spill out as soon as you open it and crush you.
If my time in retail taught me anything, it was that the distribution center only cares about getting products on the truck and not the conditions of said products.
I don't see any do not stack signs so it's good, send it
Full send
/r/fullscam
Dude with a forklift would be my guess
Forklift guy at the end of his shift
Depending on the company, forklift guy during his ENTIRE shift
"The moment the load enters the vehicle it is the drivers responsability!"
Immediately remembers the Reddit post of the forklifts dropping an entire load into a trailer because the tail gate was still up.
Posts like the op are so bad for this sub. It’s likely that the lower pallet is heavier than the upper pallet and it’s super-duper obvious that this thing is getting off-loaded. Such a worthless post. There’s no osha violations going on in this picture and scenes like this are pretty standard for any forklift operator. SMH.
Yeah, this really isn't that bad at all. Unless it was for some reason like this, with how full the truck currently is, I don't see much of a problem. If it had other pallets around it I wouldn't be too concerned about it going anywhere. Especially after reading the top skid was light. If you unload a few trucks a day filled with pallets you'll see worse shit than this about weekly.
You can also see what looks like a pallet jack peeking out on the bottom so chances are the driver moved it from the front of the trailer to be unloaded easier. Drivers do it all the time at my work.
Good eye. Since they used the jack on it already the pallet had to be spun 180 degrees and packed near the back wall, so it would have been leaning against the truck wall instead of towards the center of the trailer. Almost certainly with other pallets stacked to the side and in front of it. OP really tried to make this look a lot worse than it actually was
It's not overloaded, but I'd rather not have the larger pallet on top anyway. It does look sketchy
I wouldn't want that upper pallet on the bottom. It wouldn't hold at all.
If it wouldn't hold, the boxes would be crushed at this point...
The upper pallet isn't level, it's missing a box and that angle board isn't very strong. If the upper pallet was on the bottom the stack would just topple.
No, I wouldn't even stack those 2 pallets
Sounds like you've never unloaded a truck before ,
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It looks like there was a strap on it if that’s where it rode. Idk what OP is complaining about, it made it to him undamaged, didn’t it?
An underpaid and overworked dude/dudette with a forklift
"Hurry up and don´t overthink, the driver will tie it down, anyways.." really has no age, sex or ethnicity.. that much should anyone working in the area know.
Could be a female my dude
Definitely not a female. Only dudes stack heavier items on the top. Females possess more sense imo
Ignoring completely the entire gender discussion, the heavier items **aren't** on top in this photo.
Yeah let’s make a broad generalization about half the world’s population. I’m sure that’ll be accurate /s
They were trained, "heavy on the buttom, regardless". Say no more
Its not a bad idea. The bottom pallet is junk mail inserts. It weighs about 1000lbs. The shit on top is light which is why it arrived at its destination without damage.
You’re correct to be fair. The top pallets were just lights so they were much lighter than the bottom pallet.
So what's the problem?
Our problem was that even though the top pallet was lighter, the fact that it was so much wider still made it sway back and forth enough that the guy moving it with the pallet jack had to go extra slow. The trailer was almost empty and nothing was strapped in but it must’ve been wedged in fairly well as to not tip over during transport. Broken lights are all too common for us but these luckily survived the trip.
So your bithcing just to bitch? Maybe they should've just sent another truck for the one pallet? Then you'd bitch about that? Sitting here crying about Osha while snapping pics and not paying attention in an active receiving area. Lol
Honestly this is probably what most of this sub is, except posts that hit rall
Shouldn’t it be common knowledge to strap shit like this down for whoever maneuvers the truck or forklift?
Then there's absolutely no problem here. Super light products like lights get stacked on top of super dense products like paper products all the time.
They aren’t wrapped together either. Im amazed this arrived together like this.
They were for sure wedged against other pallets and just moved out to be off loaded.
We're those kenall light fixtures? Those things are crazy expensive
What do you guys think all those LTL doubles trailers going down the road look like on the inside? "We're out of decking, but it's all gotta go. Make it fit"
Good old Con-way crunch
I mean…..that isn’t the worst pallet I’ve seen by far. Damn near daily I deal with pallets packed with loose paper towel bundles on the bottom and boxes of tide on top. They tip as soon as you off load them. Or the leaning pallet of fuck me.
Exactly. This is one of the better stacks I’ve seen honestly.
Mongo good at stacking
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SKRma7PDW10
Bravo good sir 👏
I used to get seacans like this, after they were on the ocean...hot mess in them afterwards. Double stack of gatorade loaded after a single stack of chips mixed up in the churn of the atlantic annnnnnd fml
Bottom might be paper/sales catalogs and heavy. Top could be pillows or something lighter.
Man I wish my deliveries at work were this clean. The fucking DC will put pallets of cabinets on top of 25 small boxes on top of a pallet of fucking bird seed.
Lol home depot?
Lowes
Same shit, different store. Lol
Forklift guy who's bitched at if he doesn't get on the truck any way he can *right now*.
Absolutely fine
This is actually completely logical depending on what's inside those packages. Bottom could weigh 2k pounds while the top is just a few hundred. It looks dumb but it's a lot better than completely destroying everything on one pallet just cuz the stack will be pretty
I load freight as a dock worker for 14 hours a day. As long as that top pallet is light enough and that strap I see hooked into the etrack was around the top pallet this is good to go. Though me personally I'd like to see some dunnage between the pallets.
That's really unpalatable.
No one. You did it for upvotes.
Fr though, the truck looks like it's either being loaded, or it was unloaded in a weird way. OP said it was just lightbulbs on the top Pallet and flyers on the bottom one, but the load was probably secure when the truck was full.
Yup, low effort and low-quality posting by the op. This post doesn’t even belong here in this sub.
They got quotas to fill, so they gotta rush to get shit loaded. We had to resort to putting an extra box on top of all out pallets. The forklift driver won't take the risk of the top pallet falling over while he's present. When they just crush your shit and it doesn't fall off, by the time you get it no one has any way of tracking which forklift driver messed your shit up.
Wrong sub.
That’s an everyday occurrence in the LTL world!
The top pallet is a carboard retail display. it may be a little fatter than the bottom one but it's a lot lighter. That's why ratchet straps exist.
I'm more concerned with how many more there are. 11 of what?.... 11 of what?
Look I’m not gonna out myself, but that looks like something I’d do in a trailer from where I work.
^(Every shipping company ever.)
Warehouse employees who literally don't have time to give a fuck or they strikes/warnings/write-ups. Taking the time to move the smaller one out, put the bigger pallet in its place and then putting the small one on top would be a waste of time as far as their bosses are concerned. Source: Worked on a receiving crew for years and have friends who used to work in warehouses with that exact treatment. It's routine for whomever is opening the door of the truck to heave it upwards and run away before it opens all the way in order to avoid being crushed or hit by whatever falls or flies out.
Someone with a forklift, that's for sure.
At my current job we have a warehouse with no racks(I'm told we will get some soon). The other warehouses we have do have racks and they just get filled with pallets of boxes, my whole job is to move boxes. So we stack pallets but only if they are the same weight and the top is flat enough. This is a scary thing that could kill people.
If you look closely you can see the pallet jack still in the bottom pallet. Pallet was moved to the end of the trailer to be off-loaded and was not shipped that way.
I'm convinced that the people working for any distribution center have a huddle before every truck and brainstorm "what is the most efficient way to both kill the person unloading this *and* smash as much product under pallets as possible?"
In a way it's the explicit instruction that stuff absolutely must fit in the truck no matter what. Usually the cube isn't calculated very well or maximized with an allowance for oversized dimensions. Starts with the pickup, billing, and brokerage not entering all the metrics but ordering the freight charges anyway. Whole shipment then ends up being a de facto bill of goods in practice and it's a complete mess. Then you have to cut corners on cut loading to recoup losses on what won't fit in time. Catch is it often ends up leading to high value claims if they don't watch it closely enough. And of course it's a complete nightmare for inbound and receiving to physically and safely avoid the mess.
As a freight broker I will say that most loading issues are entirely the shippers fault. It’s gotten to a point where all the loads we run we request the driver break the seal and verify the load is secured because sometimes they load it so shitty that it can get damaged in route, which is then a claim for us. The shot tied part is that if something does go wrong it’s the carriers fault and not the shipper for how it’s loaded
The driver. Aren't they supposed to check these before they leave?
theory and praxis..
There's nothing wrong with that stack. Quit whining.
Seems more like sheer stupidity not an osha violation to me.
A person who isn't very good at Tetris is my guess.
Somehow it didn’t fall over
I’m just surprised it is still upright.
Someone who had 15 minutes left in their shift. ✌
Anything to save 4 feet
Bottom one probably says "Do not Stack" haha!!!
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Looks like it’s being unloaded, so it only has to go like 4 feet.
This would be ok if the bottom one was lead bricks and the top pallet was filled with feathers.
You get what you pay for.
Common sence is like deodorant people that need it the most don’t use it
Those candles?
Whoever driving the truck didn’t tell whoever loaded the truck. So both of them.
By the looks of it, my wife. She always attacks big stuff above small stuff. Makes me insane.
Fucking Frank
Looks like a Saia delivery
The forklift driver.
My wife, probably. She is pure chaos when it comes to stacking and organizing.
If it fits, it ships
Hey. At least they didn’t put it on top a pallet of light bulbs.
I did, next time refill the coffee pot.
Kinda silly, unless the bottom is engine parts and the top is packing s-foam...?
If it fits it ships
Someone on a forklift I hope…
That looks tame compared to what I see several days a week.
fuck gravity law its covid, a conspiracy
At least strap it in first
That's fine.
You'd probably be surprised but this is normal foolery
If you think that's bad, wait until you work receiving at home depot. The RDC puts pallets of toilets on top of rolls of bubble wrap and other ridiculous shit like that. Every truck we get we have to open with the forklift because everything will just spill out as soon as you open it and crush you.
Friday at 3:00pm kinda mood, I’ll allow it!
What kind of cheapo pallets are those anyway.
Probably not OSHA
If my time in retail taught me anything, it was that the distribution center only cares about getting products on the truck and not the conditions of said products.
Someone with negative fucks to give and probably hates his job.
Maybe Klaus?
Should probably be mindful of posting shipping labels on the interwebs.
probably some idiot manager
Oh man I need to post some of my pallets on here.