The Skid Squeeze

摘要

I was relaxing over a beer with some friends when one of them asked a question about work. "Is there any way to block in a single skid in the back of a truck so it won't shift?" I replied the general answer was no, because it was not desirable to use a door as one of the bracing walls. I inquired why he was asking—I like to identify the core problem rather than attack symptoms. It turned out that one of his plants shipped material throughout the southern United States. A few states, such as Texas, have lower allowable truck weights than others, and one of the products was very near the weight limit when shipped as a full truckload.