Parcel trailer volume count

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Hiya,

Sorry but brand new on forum, but not new to logistics.

I’m wondering if anyone can help with standard and double decker average parcel counts please for the CEP market per night.

Ideally if your a line haul driver for City Link / DPD or any of the big parcel carriers I’m trying to work out average volumes between “x & x” per night.

If anyone can help I’d be much appreciated

Cheers

Nick

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And which parcel firm do you work for ?

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logisticsmanager.com/Article … leID=17726

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Silver_Surfer:
http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=17726

Lovely!

Isn’t it simple maths? Cube of trailer and cube of freight?

Not too taxing me thinks! :wink:

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I know FedEx use cages which are a pallet’s floor space and about six foot high. So 26 on a single decker or about 40 plus four pallets @ 4ft high on the swan neck. You’d get more on a proper decker rather than one of these aerodynamic sloping roof jobbies.

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Hey

Thanks for the replies

  1. I don’t work for a parcel firm - I’m researching for economic efficiencies
  2. Thanks for the link to logistics manager - that certainly helps
  3. I was trying to get some real life experience rather than “brochure numbers”

Cheers

Nick

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Nikster:
Hiya,

Sorry but brand new on forum, but not new to logistics.

I’m wondering if anyone can help with standard and double decker average parcel counts please for the CEP market per night.

Ideally if your a line haul driver for City Link / DPD or any of the big parcel carriers I’m trying to work out average volumes between “x & x” per night.

I used to be a Linehaul driver for Geopost on the Parceline contract who are now DPD. A double decker was typically 1500-1600 parcels and a single deck around 1000. However, and this is important, on the Parceline contract the parcels were not in cages but handballed in so you probably got a lot more than the Interlink trailers who used rollcages.

Back when I drove for them around 10 years ago the Parceline hub were doing around 250,000 parcels per night on the busy nights

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Ah! must be old age I thought you meant that parcel trailers had piped music and your concern was for the level of the volume, music while you work,well we had it once
I believe it added to working efficiencies…‘Workers Playtime’

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Our wagon and drags typically carry around 2500 each per night from our depot.

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A load of about 1000 liquorice-all-shapes on a 26ft drop box…

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Roughly double it for a normal trailer, treble it for a double decker and Bob’s your uncle, sort of-ish.
We didn’t count them out EXACTLY, but it was declared at the gate as 100%. :slight_smile: