How to Properly & Professionally Load a Truck or Trailer for Moving - Tips From Professional Movers
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- How to Properly & Professionally Load a Truck or Trailer for Moving - Tips from Professional Movers
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Used to work for United Van Lines and I sucked at loading. It truly is an art to do it right. Good job on the video.
How long did you work for United? Loading is definitely an art form. It takes a lot of practice. Thanks is for watching the video. Have you checked out any of our other videos?
@@StumpfMovingandStorageIt was about 5 years. Latter I worked with Allied for about 2 years. Hard work but loved it.
It's funny, we'd get these big ol' football players from college that would help during the summers and since they were big guys, they thought it would be easy. LOL!! They learned quick. It's technique not strength. Plus, they'd try to carry everything when we had all this equipment to roll it out.
Your videos bring back some great memories, thank you.
Things I hate most to have to move. Top 15
1.Gun Safes
2. Jacuzzis
3. Baby Grand or Grand (from a Chinese restaurant's basement with a concrete header that was added after the piano was put in).
4. Vending Machines
5. Hospital beds
6. Plastic surgery chairs
7. Motorcycles
8. Land of the giant bed bords for sure
9. Alabaster dtagons with ancient relics weight.
10. Those jade mountains and that huge jade ship were both huge n heavy plus delicate.
11. CREDENZA.
12. Those crazy thick glass table tops.
13. Gang wood with a shady mug.
14. California King on stairs with tight turns, low over hang plus light fixtures in the mix...
15. Sectional and sleepers depending on the leathers and lathers needed for persuasion, do get an honorebel mention as well.
Thank you for all of the wonderful ideas. We've handled most of what you listed, and we have several of these on our channel already. Including grand pianos and motorcycles. We specialize in piano moving, so we've been there and done that many many times over. The same goes for the motorcycles and automobiles. Scroll through our library of videos. For anything else, I'll be sure to make a videos detailing how they are handled.
@StumpfMovingandStorage I'll give it a go down the road and check you out. Coo coo.
You seem to be a straight and up n up character so keep up the good work n good moving as well. Coo
Thank you, I really appreciate it!
Thanks for these man!...really useful!!
I'm glad we could help!
This is a great video! Thanks for sharing. 🙂
We're glad that you enjoyed the video and found it to be informative. 😀
Thank you!
No problem at all. Glad we could help.
Made simple and clear. Thank you!
I'm glad we can make this easy for you! 😊 Thanks for watching.
Superb video. You took your time and explained your reason behind the placement while demonstrating on a real load. Lots of pads!
I'm glad you enjoyed the video and found it informative. Pads are key to insuring your furniture stays protected! 🙂
The info was great.
Hey Joe! I'm glad that our video was informative and helped you out.
I was watching this randomly since we're moving next month, and got excited when you brought in the ladder and I saw the 412 area code realizing you're a 'Burgh company! 😁We're just south of Pittsburgh! Great video.
Hey Aaron! Glad you enjoyed our video. Good luck with your move!
Thanks
No problem!! 🙌
We are moving across country in the fall. I dread it! 🤣
I'm sure it will be a very memorable experience! ☺️
I am moving out of California. Bought my own trailer and need to learn these techniques. Thanks for the video
I'm glad we could help out. How far are you going?
@@StumpfMovingandStorage to Tulsa OK, 1,500 miles
Remember to pad your furniture well, and never place breakables on the bottom of a load. Good luck!
As a mover, some of my least favorite items to load are crazy shaped headboards and footboards, treadmills, weird couches/ sectional couches with the weird corner piece. Ect. There is a lot of awkward stuff that I would love to have tips on for loading!
Hey Cody! We will do our best to bring you a video about loading those types of items. 😊
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Exercise bikes, plant pots and lawnmowers are the three most hated items for me.
glass table tops, huge canvas paintings, pictures/paintings, tall lamps, mirrors… always end in the truck first and just be in the way the whole time 😂
They aren't easy to load! We'll try to make a video about that soon!
In Australia we call small stuff on top PUS, people's unstackable stuff.
Clients can look a bit confused when the packer is asking the movers to bring out some PUS.
That's an interesting word to describe the small stuff. I can see why the customers would look confused. Thanks for watching Gary!
😂
You’re very professional my friend, I’m mover from Israel and is there movers don’t work like this
I really appreciate that. We take pride in the work we do and I'm glad it shows. Thanks for watching!
Wow, great watching a master of his trade! Really curious how you are going to secure your load, maybe with a mattress/boxspring to hold it all in on the end since its so square and tight!? Straps? Rope? if so how many? or maybe leave the guy who was late that morning to hold the load steady on the way to the destination?
Would really love to hear about your favorite techniques for handling daily problems on a move and your favorite or preferred tools and why, like elastic bands always? or just for local moves?
Thanks!
Hey Big Pete, thanks for watching! Haha... no, we can't use the last guy to show up to hold the load. 🤣 Typically we use logistic straps to hold the load in. As you can see, moving vans are covered in e-track. That is so we can secure the cargo. However, each load and each truck is different. If I have an attic above the cab, I will places the mattress and box springs there. If not I may use them to tie off the load, or I will use them as base. For loads that are being moved across country with multiple other shipments, we will use plywood to secure and separate the loads.
I appreciate all of the questions, and I'll try to make some videos to help answer all of them. 😀
Any comments about how you handle packing when someone has a lot of books, say in the 75 boxes of books range? They're heavy but at some point they can be damaged by stacking them too high. Another question that comes to mind is something like a bandsaw that is quite heavy but not conducive to having things packed on top of it. Do you just wrap it and secure it to the side? Thanks for all the videos. They are quite helpful.
That's a really great question. As for book boxes, if you have enough you can use them as base. Don't stack them too high, and be cognizant of overloading your vehicle. Too many book boxes in the wrong area can overload the axles and put your truck overweight. What I like to do is spread the books out. It depends on the type of truck you have but that will help you from going overweight. Make sure you know what the gross vehicle weight is and the axle weight. When I load them, I will make a tear of book boxes about two boxes high. Then I'll use items such as mattresses, box springs, headboards/footboards to finish the tear. Those items are lighter and will fill out the tear nicely while securing the load behind it. Ask for a bandsaw, that's another great question. It's really situational based, but you can load it in the tier, or if you have room strap it to the wall at the end of the truck. If I have room at the end to "float" harder to load items, I will. If you load it in to a tear, you have to make a junk tear. Unfortunately, it is very hard to explain over text. I'll do my best to make a video about this soon.
As always, this is a great video! How do you recommend filling up empty space in a moving pod if everything is loaded? Throw a bunch of taped up boxes in? Or is it realistic to have pre-cut plywood and use as a barrier with ratchet straps to sort of create a wall? Also, you say there’s a difference between storage pads and moving pads? The ones I got off Amazon are only about 3.5 lbs/doz so I think I may have to double wrap my furniture if they are too thin. Thoughts on all of the above?
You bring up two really great points. First, we use used boxes in the fashion you've described above to finish loading storage vaults. We call this "filler". Filler is used to insure that the contents of a half-filled storage vault won't jostle or move. We don't use this technique when loading moving vans or pods. Second, plywood is a great way to ensure your load will not move. We typically use this to separate multiple loads on the same truck that are going out of town or across the country. It can be used to secure a load into place as well. Make sure that your ratchet straps are tight so they won't slip, and place the plywood on a nice even flat "tier". You can also use mattresses and box springs in the same fashion. Finally, 99% of the time we will load the truck and strap the contents using only ratchet straps. If loaded properly you will be able to use approximately three or four ratchet straps to tie the load off without using filler, or plywood. Part of the responsibility the driver is to check the load from time to time as they're driving across country. You don't get this opportunity with a pod. Because pods are not transported in the same fashion that typical moving and storage companies would transport furniture.
Great video! My prefered terms for the top of the tier are 1. Chowder; 2. Loosies; or 3. Misc, but Upstuff is good too.
Thanks for watching Jesse! I like the term "Loosies" as well. It's fun and gets to the point.
I just call it "top stack"
Or crap. Lol.
Top load or chowder... That's the usual terms in the real moving industry
What should I write down in the rate confirmation for moving home?
I'm sorry, but I do not understand your question. Could you please clarify what you are asking?
Great video! So I have two questions as I'm going to be using a big enclosed trailer for my very short distance move next week. My first one is what do I do if I have more room than stuff? Should I make a sort of staircase? Should I try and keep it level all the way through, risking running out of room that way?
And my follow up question to that is how do you "finish" the job. Do you put a bunch of straps across the back? Do you pack it so tight so there's only a couple inches between the stuff and the doors?
Thanks for any tips!
There are several things you can do to end or secure the load if you loaded your truck how we explained in the video, using all available space in the truck.
First, you can stand mattresses up and place them against the load. Strap them in by using a minimum of two straps attached to each side of the truck. Ensure that your mattresses are covered and protected from damage when doing this.
You can also use plywood in the same fashion that I described using mattresses. We do not recommend using plywood unless you have insured everything is padded and properly protected from damage.
Finally, you can also use multiple straps to hold everything in place. When using straps, you must make sure that you have nothing loose that can fall out of the load.
I hope this help, and thank you very much for watching our video!
@@StumpfMovingandStorage That mattress suggestion is stupidly genius and is absolutely what I will be trying to do now. Thanks!
Glad we could help! 😃
@@StumpfMovingandStorage What I ended up doing was filled the back end of the trailer with stackable totes, and then put a dresser in front of them and strapped that in. Then I layered everything else out as evenly possible (like the couch and shelves and such) towards the back, but still trying to keep them on the wheel axle. Once it was all in, I put the mattress right on top to weigh it down. May not have been a professional job, but nothing broke or shifted!
Thanks again for the tips!
How do you load bikes?
That is a great question, I will try to make a video explaining that soon.
Do you put in cross straps every few tiers or just at the last one? Thanks!
If loaded properly nothing should fall, shift, or move in the load. Straps are used on an as needed basis, but by law one tie down must be used every 5 feet of cargo. Because every load is different, it's hard to give a definitive answer to your question. We always recommend to follow your local, state, and federal laws when securing cargo. I have listed Pennsylvania's laws below in a separate comment. 👇
§ 4903. Securing loads in vehicles.
(a) General rule.--No vehicle shall be driven or moved on any highway unless the vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to prevent any of its load from dropping, sifting, leaking or otherwise escaping.
(b) Fastening load.--Every load on a vehicle shall be fastened so as to prevent the load or covering from becoming loose, detached or in any manner a hazard to other users of the highway.
This is an expert from the Pennsylvania State Police Cargo Securement Brochure. The full Brochure can be found online.
1. Safe Loading:
No person may operate a commercial motor vehicle unless the vehicle’s cargo is properly distributed and adequately secured. The vehicle’s tailgate, tailboard, doors, tarps, spare tire and other equipment and the means of fastening the cargo
must be secured.
The operator of a truck or truck tractor is required to examine and make adjustments as necessary to the cargo and its securement devices within the first 50 miles after beginning a trip. Periodic ex-
amination should also be made every 3 hours or 150 miles, whichever occurs first (unless the trailer is sealed and the driver is ordered not to open it to inspect the cargo).
2. Basic Requirements:
The basic requirements of cargo securement apply to trucks, truck tractors, semitrailers, full trailers and pole trailers. Each commercial motor vehicle must be loaded / equipped and the cargo secured to prevent cargo from leaking, spilling, blowing or falling from the vehicle. Cargo must be
secured or immobilized to prevent shifting upon or within the vehicle to such an extent that the vehicle’s stability is adversely affected.
3. Cargo Securement Devices:
Tie down assemblies may consist of chains, cables, steel straps, fiber webbing, etc. All tie downs and cargo securement systems must be in proper working order when used to secure cargo with no damage or weakened components such as cracks or cuts that will adversely affect their per-
formance. General Requirements
Cargo must be immobilized or secured on or within a vehicle by structures of adequate strength, dunnage or dunnage bags, shoring bars, tie downs or a combination of these.
4. How many tiedowns are needed?
When an article is blocked or braced to prevent forward movement, it must be secured by at least one tie down for every 10 feet of article length or fraction thereof.
If the article is not blocked or braced to prevent forward movement, it must be secured by at least: One tiedown for articles 5 feet or less in length,
and 1,100 pounds or less in weight; Two tiedowns if the article is:
5 feet or less in length and more than
1,000 pounds in weight, or
Longer than 5 feet but less than or equal to 10 feet in length, regardless of weight.
Two tiedowns if the article is longer than 10 feet, and one additional tiedown for every 10 feet of article length, or fraction thereof, beyond the first 10 feet of length.
Thanks!
No problem!
A must to use those pads?
In order to ensure all of the furniture is protected, yes you will need to use moving pads. The pads shown in this video are an industry standard moving pad. All professional movers use moving pads to protect the furniture they are hired to move.
So you showed loading it, what if the load doesn't fill out the truck? How do you lock it in place?
We are working on a video about that coming soon.
How do you finish/secure the load if you're not filling the entire truck?
You can strap off the load in several different ways. Using mattresses and box springs then strapping the load is one way. The other would be to create a tier that is solid without any loose items, then use several logistics straps to hold the load in place.
When and How do you load a sofa?
We just made a video explaining how to load a sofa. Keep an eye out for it!! 👀
Mattresses against the side or first in? If you have 4
Mattresses never go against the side. Everything is loaded exactly as shown here. If your truck is equipped with an attic, we recommend all mattresses are placed in the attic. If not, use the mattress and box spring as base and load lighter objects on top. You can also use mattresses and box springs to hold a load in place by strapping them to the end of a load.
Ok perfectly understood thanks so much that explains a lot!
Glad we could help! 🙌
I am moving cross- country in a 26’ Uhaul truck. I am mainly taking boxes, as I have to leave most of my stuff behind, and choose to leave furniture. How can I best stack so many boxes without everything on the bottom getting crushed after 4 days of driving? Would getting a 4x8’ board of some form, to lay horizontally across the load half way up(?) help to evenly distribute the box load? Do you have any other suggestions? I think the walls of the Uhaul are wider than 8’, so a board maybe won’t sit on the rub rails (not quite wide enough)… thanks a million for any suggestions 🙏🏼
Using foam will make loading extremely difficult. Foam will not give you a solid base to load on. I would start with book boxes and anything that is extremely heavy. Ensure that you've packed your boxes full and didn't leave any space inside of them. Then work your way from the heaviest to lightest boxes as you stack upwards. Unfortunately, U-Hauls have spring suspension, so no matter what you do, any bumps you hit along the way will affect the items inside of the truck. The best thing you can do is just put the heavy stuff on the bottom and work your way to the lighter stuff on top. Make sure that you pack it tight and don't leave any room for boxes to move around.
I am a paper crafter and have lots of boxes with heavy paper. We have moved many times with professional movers so they have taught me well. This moving is a closer move so we have been forced to do it ourselves. We recently rented a uhaul trailer and hauled a lot of my craft room supplies, all boxes. I always pack my boxes tight to avoid crushing. I loaded the trailer while my husband brought me what I asked for. I packed the heaviest part of the load where uhaul recommended and built my base with the heaviest boxes and worked to the lightest on the top. I packed it tight and everything arrived in perfect condition. Nothing looked like it had ever been touched. I was very pleased because the roads where we live are rough. This young man did an awesome job showing how he is loading this truck I am excited to watch more of his videos to see how he deals with appliances and other unusual items.
Thank you for sharing. It sounds like you learned how to pack and load like a professional! Thank you for the kind words. We look forward to making more videos for you to enjoy.
Why aren't you showing the layers being tied off? Don't you have to use rope or straps to tie off each layer or two?
The focus of this video is loading the truck. So we did not show how to secure the load. We will be doing that in another video soon. Logistic straps with E track connectors are used to strap/tie off the load. They are not needed as frequent as you asked. If loaded properly nothing should fall, shift, or move in the load. Straps are used on an as needed basis, but by law one tie down must be used every 5 feet of cargo. Because every load is different, it's hard to give a definitive answer to your question. We always recommend to follow your local, state, and federal laws when securing cargo. I have listed Pennsylvania's laws below in a separate comment. 👇
§ 4903. Securing loads in vehicles.
(a) General rule.--No vehicle shall be driven or moved on any highway unless the vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to prevent any of its load from dropping, sifting, leaking or otherwise escaping.
(b) Fastening load.--Every load on a vehicle shall be fastened so as to prevent the load or covering from becoming loose, detached or in any manner a hazard to other users of the highway.
This is an expert from the Pennsylvania State Police Cargo Securement Brochure. The full Brochure can be found online.
1. Safe Loading:
No person may operate a commercial motor vehicle unless the vehicle’s cargo is properly distributed and adequately secured. The vehicle’s tailgate, tailboard, doors, tarps, spare tire and other equipment and the means of fastening the cargo
must be secured.
The operator of a truck or truck tractor is required to examine and make adjustments as necessary to the cargo and its securement devices within the first 50 miles after beginning a trip. Periodic ex-
amination should also be made every 3 hours or 150 miles, whichever occurs first (unless the trailer is sealed and the driver is ordered not to open it to inspect the cargo).
2. Basic Requirements:
The basic requirements of cargo securement apply to trucks, truck tractors, semitrailers, full trailers and pole trailers. Each commercial motor vehicle must be loaded / equipped and the cargo secured to prevent cargo from leaking, spilling, blowing or falling from the vehicle. Cargo must be
secured or immobilized to prevent shifting upon or within the vehicle to such an extent that the vehicle’s stability is adversely affected.
3. Cargo Securement Devices:
Tie down assemblies may consist of chains, cables, steel straps, fiber webbing, etc. All tie downs and cargo securement systems must be in proper working order when used to secure cargo with no damage or weakened components such as cracks or cuts that will adversely affect their per-
formance. General Requirements
Cargo must be immobilized or secured on or within a vehicle by structures of adequate strength, dunnage or dunnage bags, shoring bars, tie downs or a combination of these.
4. How many tiedowns are needed?
When an article is blocked or braced to prevent forward movement, it must be secured by at least one tie down for every 10 feet of article length or fraction thereof.
If the article is not blocked or braced to prevent forward movement, it must be secured by at least: One tiedown for articles 5 feet or less in length,
and 1,100 pounds or less in weight; Two tiedowns if the article is:
5 feet or less in length and more than
1,000 pounds in weight, or
Longer than 5 feet but less than or equal to 10 feet in length, regardless of weight.
Two tiedowns if the article is longer than 10 feet, and one additional tiedown for every 10 feet of article length, or fraction thereof, beyond the first 10 feet of length.
That's like a grand in moving blankies
That's what it takes to keep a professional moving truck/trailer equipped with moving pads.
Grand in moving blankets is insurance of a grand in your pocket, maybe not for that job but never enough blankets if it means you don't break customers belongings
Exactly!
r/oddlysatisfying
Thank you!
Imagine being the outcast at work because you don’t want to refer to actual “little stuff” as “chowder” 😂
I'm not sure what you mean by that... 🤔
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Moving trucks don't have rails on ceiling. You hauling freight.
I'm not sure if you've ever been inside of a moving van, but they all have "rails" on the top. Box trucks, moving vans, freight trailers all have rails to keep the roof in place. That is how all trucks and trailers are constructed. The moving truck being loaded in the video this is a 26ft Kentucky moving van body on a 2014 Freightliner M2106 chassis. It is one of the first moving bodies ever constructed by Kentucky trailer. If you have been inside of a moving van, you would notice that they all have vertical e-track and lumen between the e-track. That is very standard on moving vans and a clear giveaway that this is a moving van. Standard and dry freight/box trucks typically have horizontal e-track and no plywood or lumen lining.
Thanks
No problem at all!!