The objective of this study was to find more efficient and less costly methods for handling agricultural products from producer to consumer. Approximately 70 percent of the grocery receipts arrive at the food distribution warehouse by truck. While the volume of receipts at the truck dock has grown, productivity has lagged behind that at the rail dock. Unitized shipment on pallets in railcars replaced handstacked shipment when pallet-exchange programs and free return of empty pallets made this system less costly. Presently, unitized shipment on slipsheets is replacing pallets in railcars because of the rising cost of pallet repairs and pallet-exchange problems.
Evaluation of Slipsheets for Unitized Shipment of Groceries in Trailers
1982
19 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Study on Adjustment of Large Structure Objects’ Shipment Processing by Trailers
Trans Tech Publications | 2013
|Online Contents | 2014
Online Contents | 2014