Haulin' eggs

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Since I talk about hauling truckloads of eggs, Rhubarb asked me to take some pictures.

Here they are!

This is my truck hooked to a trailer.




The trailer's dimensions.




It's refrigerated and we haul eggs at 45 degrees F.




The load (in this case 324,000 eggs is secured by using 3 "load locks".




Here's what that many eggs looks like. I was at the back of the trailer and the front end is just under 48 feet from me.




The next load was in a 96" wide trailer and so they are loaded differently. In a 102" the pallets are loaded sideways with the wide ends facing the front and back. In a 96" they alternate, 4 sideways (starting on the left in this case) and 3 longways. The next 7 are done on opposite sides (wide right...long left) These are called seven blocks.

There is quite a bit of space in between the pallets when loading seven blocks so we stuff that void with paper egg flats. (look in between the pallets)



Maximum load for a 102" trailer is 30 pallets and for a 96" it's 26.
Sooooooooo....that is 30 cases to a pallet, 30 dozen to a case.

30 x 30 x 12 = 324,000
26 x 30 x 12 = 280,800

Lots and lots of eggs!