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Q Great difficulty is experienced by my
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staff in checking cartons/cases on to road vehicles. The loading staff emphatically State they loaded "x" number of cases and then sealed or locked the box semi-trailers. The drivers state that when they went to deliver, only "y" number of cases were to hand. Loading is carried out by two-men gangs, one placing the carton on a rollerconveyor into the road vehicle and the other stacking In the trailer.
Each man supposedly checks as he puts the items on the conveyor and the other as he stacks. To employ a third man solely to check (even if we could get a man) would be uneconomic. We operate eight gangs
of two men, Do you know of any device or appliance that could be attached to the roller-conveyor which would record each case or carton? I have a small hand-recorder requiring the operator to press a knob for every carton and it records like a mileometer but this is not successful as attention can be diverted for a second or so and the button is not pressed.
A The problem you raise about loading
discrepancies is one which is frequently encountered, We are certain that the kind of equipment you seek is available, but fear its cost may be high. Also any form of monitoring equipment may prove to be less than 100 per cent reliable.
The equipment known as Parkmarshalan automatic package interrogation and identification equipment device—made by General Precision Systems Ltd, of Aylesbury might meet your needs.
Most of the big electronic manufacturers, Plessey, English Electric, for example, have subsidiaries making this kind of equipment. Also the Institute of Materials Handling, St Ives House, St Ives Road. Maidenhead. could possibly give you details of manufacturers currently producing a suitable device.
Our own hunch for resolving this problem would require a weighing platform of, say, 6 tons capactiy.
Parcels would be loaded on a large pallet. the size of the internal van dimensions, and the pallet would be put on to the vehicle by rollers. Joloda or, conceivably, lifted bodily up by crane or gantry and lowered through a special body with a removable top.
If the "cartridge loadwas netted andsealeid immediately prior to weighing, and then transferred to the vehicle, we do not see how discrepancies could occur at the arrival terminal.
The "cartridge pallet" idea has been fully exploited by W. H. Smith at its Swindon warehouse, where vehicle loads are made up on special pallets the width of the vehicle bodies. It would be quite easy to devise a system of movable partitions on the pallet to segregate goods if required.
Of course, even if goods were weighed, as suggested, for 100 per cent security, it might be desirable to check-weigh at the other terminal, and this would involve occasional checks of weighing platforms for accuracy.
We gather that BRS Parcels have tried an electronic recording device when loading but they discarded it. Another idea they tried out years ago was to record all parcels and senders by tape recorder. This might be an answer to your problem, but queries would be expensive to deal with.