How long would it take to load a 26ft box truck from front to back with boxes weighing 20-50lbs?

You need to calculate the time based on size ,weight and distance.

If it is uniform load or irregular...each requires handling subject to weight and using a hand truck to assist. If unloading by hand...more time added.

 

I never thought of it. 26 feet? Thats about two of them for a 53 foot minus a foot give or take.

In the old 48's its 24 pallets on the floor, 48 double stack in certain freight.

50 pound box Well, I would say 5 of those to the layer on a pallet. Cider in glass jug comes to mind it's pretty close. So 250# to the layer 4 layers a ton. 24 tons = 48000 pounds. About a case count of around 480 boxes. In a full 48 mind you. Half that would be 24000 pounds 240 boxes, 12 pallets in the box truck.

Old time breakbulk used to have a rule that a minimum allowed number of items to be removed or loaded into the trailer or truck onto the pallet or floor by one human comes out to about 50 per hour. So 240 boxes you plan on 6 hours or less to unload from floor to pallet or big wood to small wood or reverse. Stacking them about 40 feet behind the dock plate between the two long yellow lines designated for your dock.

Two people can move that in 3 hours. Maybe a bit less. If you had a preplan load and need to roll, you hired 4 plus yourself. It should be off there in a short time. A hour maybe. So it's worth it. As long your company pays you back for the premium on time.

The best thing is not to run loads like that. They cost too much, take away your energy and awake time and ability to deliver next morning. Consume unnecessarily too many hours each load.

With a 48 foot? eh... 10 hours or less at a steady pace. Particularly with much heavier than 50 pound boxes on the floor.

In Sysco at Horseheads from McCormick Spices in Baltimore a minimum of 6000 box count, little bitty boxes to be checked off against a dot matrix foot thick spread sheet. (Thats where your knife comes in to keep pencil going.) We have up to 8 people in there and move all of it in about 7 hours. check check check

See if I ever buy the #### things. Which I actually do now and then.

 

depends also on how many boxes/sizes. Meaning is it a 10x10x10 box at 20 lbs. Or is it a 20x20x20 box at 20lbs. Honestly it isn't a weight issue it is a size issue. How much volume is being filled up. So if you can fit 100 boxes in there and it takes 2 minutes per box to put on the dolly, 2 minutes up the ramp, and another 2 minutes per box to unload. You can move 5 boxes per trip. You'd take roughly 8 hours. As an example

 

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If you ever get your CDL you'd be a natural for a food route. Maybe even a DG dedicated gig. You could see if your calculations work in the real world.

 

lol I'm just doing math. based on volume. Don't get me wrong I used bad numbers. Hell I'd hate to sit on detention at a shipper for that long. But I love math. Real world numbers are better to use, though. But weight is only one part of the picture. Because you need volume to fill that "cube" of a box truck.

 

I struggle with cube. I understand the concept but asking me to volume out a 53 footer? 8 and half high? say 98 wide? ugh. give or take around 3800ish plus or minus 60 as near as I can figure. And those are not even a figuring I would trust yet.

 

I drove a heavy truck coast to coast...5 axel 80,000 lb GVW. 53 FT. 5000 Cube....that's where I get off doing math on this load.

As for Straight trucks local....nobody cares fill it to the brim and haul booty....

If you have to scale....check you dot regulations

 

yeah but I still think the question is more of a volume vs weight math problem. Because the weight listed for the normal person should be movable at the same speed. So it is now a matter of how many boxes will be filling that cube and how long does it take to place one said box on the dolly and move said dolly. Which is where my formula came from. I just don't have real numbers for the time of each box. I know my numbers are way high. As no way would it take you 2 minutes to place a box.

It could possibly take 10-20 seconds a box. Then say 30-90 seconds to run the dolly up the ramp. So maybe closer to only 2 hours? I used the same 10 boxes. 5 boxes to the dolly at 100 seconds. Plus 90 up the ramp. For 190 seconds. Doubled for round trip. Load/up ramp/unload/down ramp. Then multiplied that by 20 loads. But again this is with just no real information on the OP that helps. All guess work and I've never personally loaded a 26 box truck except when moving and then it took longer because of all the crap besides boxes.