Gaylords for warehouses and 3pls around Boston

Where they sit

Everett holds warehousing, refrigerated storage and trucking; Canton is a warehouse and flex junction; Brockton and Taunton carry the Route 24 and Myles Standish distribution parks, 1,029 acres with about 100 companies and 5.8 million square feet of buildings per the Taunton Development Corporation.

What the dock sees

Inbound freight arrives in partial flap boxes with slip sheets, mostly dry and mostly single trip. The numbers are regular, which is what a repeat-loads sell request is for.

What to send

A sell request with weekly count, footprint and standing or knocked down; read the repeat-loads page if the volume is steady.

Many shippers, many boxes

A third-party logistics warehouse handles boxes belonging to several customers, and the empties pile up in a single corner of the dock. The useful thing to tell us is whose boxes they are and whether the owner has a say in where they go. Some customers want their empties back, some do not care. A warehouse that knows the answer can plan a pickup without a second call.

Steady volume is the point

Warehouses tend to produce steady streams of empties. That is the case for the repeat loads request, which sets up a schedule instead of a single pickup.

Mixed owners, mixed boxes

A 3PL's empties are often a blend of sizes and conditions from several customers. Describing them by group is practical: so many 48 x 40 x 36, so many 48 x 48, so many octabins. A warehouse manager who can list those groups in a sentence or two has done most of the work of a request.

Compliance across customers

A third-party logistics provider carries the ban obligation for every customer's boxes at its dock. A single written plan for cardboard, covering sound boxes, worn board and wet board, helps staff apply the same rule every shift. The request is a good place to record it.

Say whether the stack is yours or a customer's; it changes who can release it.