It takes about 30 minutes, if that (15-20 normally) to unload 4-6 pallets from the truck,
You'd be fired in most warehouses in the UK if you worked that slow. Shit I loaded myself with a pump truck on Saturday night and stuck 18 pallets on my semi-trailer in half an hour and that is with a forklift truck driver going into the warehouse and bringing them out to me one at a time. It only took them 30 minutes to unload and check 26 pallets I delivered to a Tesco distribution centre on Sunday morning.
You can unload 13,000 cases of unpalletized canned goods in four hours, the same amount of time it takes anyone else with pallets? That's pretty fucking amazing, I must say.
What the hell? A standard 40' shipping container takes 24 pallets. You can unload/load 24 pallets in about the same number of minutes, even less if they're all stacked on the loading dock next to the ramp for the container. You're probably looking at an hour to unload 13,000 cases palletised.
Thank you for demonstrating you have no fucking clue about haulage or logistics. The vast majority of goods are transported palletised. You can unload 3,000 cases of palletised goods far faster than two or three people stuck in the back of a semi-trailer can put them on a conveyer belt. It takes a warehouse 20 minutes to unload a full 26 pallet load semi-trailer, it takes 2hrs to unload 1500 cases on a conveyer belt. I should know, I've spent 20 years as a trucker.
Please stop commenting about something you don't know shit about, you're just embarrassing yourself.
It takes time to build pallets. It takes time to break apart, resort, and rebuild pallets. It costs money to repair and replace the pallets themselves. Pallets require extra ceiling space to actually pick them up and put them into a truck or container, resulting in wasted volume in that truck or container. The logistics industry is quickly moving away from pallets for everything but long term storage.
Actual truck driver here. No they're not or at least in Europe they're not. You can load a pallet onto a truck with just a couple of inches clearance, enough for the skids on the pallet not to slide along the floor. What actually determines pallet height and therefore wasted space in a truck is the racking at the warehouses. Its the spacing between the shelving on the racking.
Rented pallets is the model used the most with Chep being the largest player in the world. Most large companies won't accept goods unless they're on Chep pallets, that's how well they're built and how well designed the rental system is. You don't need to worry about the time it takes to build pallets or repair them because Chep take care of that. You merely send one of your trucks in to a Chep factory en-route back to load up 300 pallets or get Chep to deliver them and collect the damaged ones.
Well colour me surprised. So their promotion video bragging that it was faster to swap not one but two batteries in less time than it took to fill up a car with one of the largest fuel tanks on the market was actually not a true representation and the best they can currently manage is three minutes a battery? Not only does it take just as long to swap out a battery to get a 300 mile range as it does to fill an Audi that'll do a thousand miles on a tank of gas, you get to pay the same amount of money as well for the privilege.
At least the major cable guys offer unlimited data a month, and price you according to the speed that you wanna rent. Which sounds fair. One has to pay far more than that in other countries - not sure about Europe, but definitely it's far cheaper than Asia
I pay the equivalent of $50 a month for 80mbps down, 20mbps up with no data caps or throttling here in the UK.
Radio is no use. You'd need to be on VHF at least in order to get the bandwidth for the speed and VHF and higher is line of sight. You'd need fooking tall towers at either end to overcome the curvature of the earth for that kind of distance between the UK and the islands. Not only that, it can be easily interrupted by both man made and naturally occurring sources.
Blocking access to websites when I paid for unlimited access to the Internet?
Sounds like a clear case of fraud.
Your honour, I'm filing this case because BT refuse to allow me to download copyrighted material I've not paid for and which is being distributed without the holders permission....
The International Space Station? That wasn't a USA effort. Clue is in the name.
Let Europe get down on their knees and give Putin a nice juicy blowjob since they have zero soft or hard power without US support which they have taken for granted and certainly not footed any of the costs for.
EU military spending is the second highest in the world spending more than China and Russia combined.
The rest of the world is just jealous, because we're the best country with the most successful and richest people around. The rest, especially grotty Europe, are mega jealous.
Would that be the EU with a GDP bigger than the USA?
Well, we do have the technology. We could have pallets with big fat QR codes slapped on the side (and by "big fat" I mean three inches or so) and robotic pallet jacks unloading the trucks, or trailers with floors that would shove pallets out the back of the truck automatically, and trucks loaded in proper order for that to make sense. For stuff that's delivered by the truckload, a whole trailer or shipping container could be unloaded and just dropped off to be dealt with by someone other than the trucker entirely.
Lots of loads can't be palletised. There would also have to be massive investment by the delivery locations as well.
I've said for a long time that I would much rather be driving next to an automated vehicle that only experiences an "incidents" once every 100,000 miles or so
I'm a trucker. I've driven over 2 million miles accident free. Many truckers have. An incident every 100,000 miles would be one a year for me and at that rate I'd hand in my license.
My Toyota Aygo claims 65mpg for 'motorway' driving. I used to regularly get that when I drove 30 odd miles a day on the motorway - at a steady 55mph! Was passed by everything.
So I think these figures are acheivable if you don't let your ego drive the car.
That's terrible. I get that out of my MK4 Ford Mondeo doing 70MPH on a motorway. The most I've had is 70MPG.
They all do that. Its because it senses the temperature is cold so therefore runs in "cold start" mode which involves using a richer fuel mix, the modern equivalent of using choke on an engine with a carburettor.
I can exceed the values and not have to drive like a nun. I was lucky enough to do an economic driving course with a previous employer. Part of that was driving round a course around Birmingham and surrounding countryside. You were timed at the start of the course and at the end you repeated the run but not only had to improve economy but also do the route quicker and use fewer gear changes.
The biggest mistake and most fuel hungry is how people slow down. Engines use no fuel at all when you take your foot off the accelerator. You should be using engine braking approaching lights, junctions etc backing off earlier than driving to the point where you need to use the brakes to stop. It takes no longer to do the journey but all that distance you're slowing down using engine braking is free. As for the old wives tales about it wearing clutches out, the last car I sold had 165,000 miles on and was on the original clutch. The next mistake they do is not trying to time it approaching lights/junctions/roundabouts so you don't have to stop.
Some people drove sports cars in the 70s and 80s, but most people drove heavy-ass sedans that had some of the worst acceleration imaginable. 90s, I agree, are much closer to current cars in capability.
Even 1980s US sports models such as the Mustang were quite poor. The 5L 1987 Mustang had a 0-60 time only 1 second faster than my 1.6L Escort.
My gutless early 1980's European Econobox with a poxy 1.6 litre engine had a 0-60 time of 7.8 seconds which was only 1 second slower than the Ford Mustang which had an engine more than three times the size. Just sayin....
Also set up wrong by the manufacturer. The 2007 honda civic has a highway MPG rating of 40mpg. I regularly get 44-46 while speeding after I fixed their design flaw in the rear end. they set the car with significant negative rear camber and with about 2 degrees of toe, I reset it to zero and zero and not only did fuel mileage numbers skyrocket by 10-15% but rear tire wear dropped to zero or undetectable.
Oh. Dear. So what you've done is make the cornering worse. Mind you given that US cars are a bit crap when it comes to bends you probably don't notice any difference.
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It takes about 30 minutes, if that (15-20 normally) to unload 4-6 pallets from the truck,
You'd be fired in most warehouses in the UK if you worked that slow. Shit I loaded myself with a pump truck on Saturday night and stuck 18 pallets on my semi-trailer in half an hour and that is with a forklift truck driver going into the warehouse and bringing them out to me one at a time. It only took them 30 minutes to unload and check 26 pallets I delivered to a Tesco distribution centre on Sunday morning.
You can unload 13,000 cases of unpalletized canned goods in four hours, the same amount of time it takes anyone else with pallets? That's pretty fucking amazing, I must say.
What the hell? A standard 40' shipping container takes 24 pallets. You can unload/load 24 pallets in about the same number of minutes, even less if they're all stacked on the loading dock next to the ramp for the container. You're probably looking at an hour to unload 13,000 cases palletised.
I would say a very loose standard. There are a variety of pallet dimensions.
Unless they're specifically made for a specific product they're either 40"x48", 48"x48" or Euro 1200x800.
Please stop commenting about something you don't know shit about, you're just embarrassing yourself.
It takes time to build pallets. It takes time to break apart, resort, and rebuild pallets. It costs money to repair and replace the pallets themselves. Pallets require extra ceiling space to actually pick them up and put them into a truck or container, resulting in wasted volume in that truck or container. The logistics industry is quickly moving away from pallets for everything but long term storage.
Actual truck driver here. No they're not or at least in Europe they're not. You can load a pallet onto a truck with just a couple of inches clearance, enough for the skids on the pallet not to slide along the floor. What actually determines pallet height and therefore wasted space in a truck is the racking at the warehouses. Its the spacing between the shelving on the racking. Rented pallets is the model used the most with Chep being the largest player in the world. Most large companies won't accept goods unless they're on Chep pallets, that's how well they're built and how well designed the rental system is. You don't need to worry about the time it takes to build pallets or repair them because Chep take care of that. You merely send one of your trucks in to a Chep factory en-route back to load up 300 pallets or get Chep to deliver them and collect the damaged ones.
Hopefully they will vote with their hard earned money and seek another one of our other valued distributors immediately."
Or after having to watch alternatives they'll come to the realisation of just how shitty Fox News is and just not bother paying to watch them again.
Well colour me surprised. So their promotion video bragging that it was faster to swap not one but two batteries in less time than it took to fill up a car with one of the largest fuel tanks on the market was actually not a true representation and the best they can currently manage is three minutes a battery? Not only does it take just as long to swap out a battery to get a 300 mile range as it does to fill an Audi that'll do a thousand miles on a tank of gas, you get to pay the same amount of money as well for the privilege.
80gb is better than 8...
You can get 128GB micro SD cards.
At 55" and average viewing distances of 8ft you're not going to notice all the detail of even 1080p. You literally need to be sat a couple of feet away to get the full benefit of 4K on a 55" display.
At least the major cable guys offer unlimited data a month, and price you according to the speed that you wanna rent. Which sounds fair. One has to pay far more than that in other countries - not sure about Europe, but definitely it's far cheaper than Asia
I pay the equivalent of $50 a month for 80mbps down, 20mbps up with no data caps or throttling here in the UK.
Radio is no use. You'd need to be on VHF at least in order to get the bandwidth for the speed and VHF and higher is line of sight. You'd need fooking tall towers at either end to overcome the curvature of the earth for that kind of distance between the UK and the islands. Not only that, it can be easily interrupted by both man made and naturally occurring sources.
Blocking access to websites when I paid for unlimited access to the Internet? Sounds like a clear case of fraud.
Your honour, I'm filing this case because BT refuse to allow me to download copyrighted material I've not paid for and which is being distributed without the holders permission....
The space station has served it's purpose
The International Space Station? That wasn't a USA effort. Clue is in the name.
Let Europe get down on their knees and give Putin a nice juicy blowjob since they have zero soft or hard power without US support which they have taken for granted and certainly not footed any of the costs for.
EU military spending is the second highest in the world spending more than China and Russia combined.
The rest of the world is just jealous, because we're the best country with the most successful and richest people around. The rest, especially grotty Europe, are mega jealous.
Would that be the EU with a GDP bigger than the USA?
The bus driver knows how they get there.....
After cutting its teeth as a domestic broadcaster, the BBC is spreading its products all around the globe.
The BBC have been doing this for well over half a century.....
Well, we do have the technology. We could have pallets with big fat QR codes slapped on the side (and by "big fat" I mean three inches or so) and robotic pallet jacks unloading the trucks, or trailers with floors that would shove pallets out the back of the truck automatically, and trucks loaded in proper order for that to make sense. For stuff that's delivered by the truckload, a whole trailer or shipping container could be unloaded and just dropped off to be dealt with by someone other than the trucker entirely.
Lots of loads can't be palletised. There would also have to be massive investment by the delivery locations as well.
I've said for a long time that I would much rather be driving next to an automated vehicle that only experiences an "incidents" once every 100,000 miles or so
I'm a trucker. I've driven over 2 million miles accident free. Many truckers have. An incident every 100,000 miles would be one a year for me and at that rate I'd hand in my license.
My Toyota Aygo claims 65mpg for 'motorway' driving. I used to regularly get that when I drove 30 odd miles a day on the motorway - at a steady 55mph! Was passed by everything.
So I think these figures are acheivable if you don't let your ego drive the car.
That's terrible. I get that out of my MK4 Ford Mondeo doing 70MPH on a motorway. The most I've had is 70MPG.
They all do that. Its because it senses the temperature is cold so therefore runs in "cold start" mode which involves using a richer fuel mix, the modern equivalent of using choke on an engine with a carburettor.
I can exceed the values and not have to drive like a nun. I was lucky enough to do an economic driving course with a previous employer. Part of that was driving round a course around Birmingham and surrounding countryside. You were timed at the start of the course and at the end you repeated the run but not only had to improve economy but also do the route quicker and use fewer gear changes.
The biggest mistake and most fuel hungry is how people slow down. Engines use no fuel at all when you take your foot off the accelerator. You should be using engine braking approaching lights, junctions etc backing off earlier than driving to the point where you need to use the brakes to stop. It takes no longer to do the journey but all that distance you're slowing down using engine braking is free. As for the old wives tales about it wearing clutches out, the last car I sold had 165,000 miles on and was on the original clutch. The next mistake they do is not trying to time it approaching lights/junctions/roundabouts so you don't have to stop.
Some people drove sports cars in the 70s and 80s, but most people drove heavy-ass sedans that had some of the worst acceleration imaginable. 90s, I agree, are much closer to current cars in capability.
Even 1980s US sports models such as the Mustang were quite poor. The 5L 1987 Mustang had a 0-60 time only 1 second faster than my 1.6L Escort.
My gutless early 1980's European Econobox with a poxy 1.6 litre engine had a 0-60 time of 7.8 seconds which was only 1 second slower than the Ford Mustang which had an engine more than three times the size. Just sayin....
Various European nations tax cars based on calculated mpg.
No they don't, they tax them based on emissions which has little to do with MPG or engine capacity.
Also set up wrong by the manufacturer. The 2007 honda civic has a highway MPG rating of 40mpg. I regularly get 44-46 while speeding after I fixed their design flaw in the rear end. they set the car with significant negative rear camber and with about 2 degrees of toe, I reset it to zero and zero and not only did fuel mileage numbers skyrocket by 10-15% but rear tire wear dropped to zero or undetectable.
Oh. Dear. So what you've done is make the cornering worse. Mind you given that US cars are a bit crap when it comes to bends you probably don't notice any difference.