Freight handling
Freight handling
Slightly OT but still scenery related.
I am about to order a few flat wagons and was thinking about various loads and various methods of freight manhandling.
As I was cogitating this in work today I had a delivery of oil in 45gal drums. Two arrived strapped to pallets. The delivery driver was moaning about the fact that most of the stuff he delivers these days is "Pallitised" and very few small companies actually have forklifts to move it.
Pallets seem to have become the defacto method of shipping most items of over 25kg and under a ton.
Does any one have any idea about when this change started to come about?
I remember the ubiquitous ton bag arriving around 20 years ago for the simple reason that there used to be a deposit on them and they were a useful source of beer money. But when did the humble pallet arrive on the scene?
Strange question I know, but I had a very boring day in work.
I am about to order a few flat wagons and was thinking about various loads and various methods of freight manhandling.
As I was cogitating this in work today I had a delivery of oil in 45gal drums. Two arrived strapped to pallets. The delivery driver was moaning about the fact that most of the stuff he delivers these days is "Pallitised" and very few small companies actually have forklifts to move it.
Pallets seem to have become the defacto method of shipping most items of over 25kg and under a ton.
Does any one have any idea about when this change started to come about?
I remember the ubiquitous ton bag arriving around 20 years ago for the simple reason that there used to be a deposit on them and they were a useful source of beer money. But when did the humble pallet arrive on the scene?
Strange question I know, but I had a very boring day in work.
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I was trying to remember from my own working life when I became aware of the use of pallets in connection with road deliveries.
Certainly by 1966 I was receiving deliveries by those wonderful Scammell (?) 3 wheelers operated by BR which were not on pallets at that time. Even later I can't recall pallets being used before about 1973 when I was working in Birmingham.
Perhaps it was the type of material being delivered which was the reason for this and I was simply not aware of their use?
Certainly by 1966 I was receiving deliveries by those wonderful Scammell (?) 3 wheelers operated by BR which were not on pallets at that time. Even later I can't recall pallets being used before about 1973 when I was working in Birmingham.
Perhaps it was the type of material being delivered which was the reason for this and I was simply not aware of their use?
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