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okay welcome back to brazilian wood
depot’s youtube channel today i’m going
to tell you why brazilian wood depot is
the best at shipping lumber in the
industry we’re going to watch excuse me
we’re going to watch uh romer and with a
little help from william put together
one of our solid crates from beginning
to end we’re the only ones as far as i
know in the industry that do this
and it really goes a long way to
protecting the lumber from getting
damaged and shipping and this is
specifically for my ltl customers which
are most often out of state
sometimes we use flatbeds for regional
deliveries but most of my customers in
the northeast or out west
in the midwest or the west coast we’ll
be using the ltl carriers it’s the most
common way we ship lumber
and we have a very specific process
about how we create it
and i’m going to show you that process
right now
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okay thanks again for watching our
youtube channel this um
episode this video is all about shipping
and how we use the ltl carrier system uh
more importantly how we
bundle and create our materials when
they’re going on that on the common
carriers
we are the only ones
in this industry that do it this way to
my knowledge other
competing distributors
put it on a pallet and then
i think they put plastic over it which
the carriers in these terminals
aren’t very careful with their forklifts
in fact they’re not careful at all so we
go through a lot of
a lot of effort to make sure our boards
get to our customers in the same
condition they left our warehouse in
so of course we build the pallet pull
the lumber and now they’re putting the
first straps on it that’s roamer there
with the ear muffs and william helping
out there with the glasses
um we’re in georgia so
nearly all of our customers in the
northeast
the midwest the pacific coast will be
utilizing this carrier
ltl carrier service otherwise known as
common carriers
some of my customers in the north
carolina south carolina alabama
tennessee
we can use the
flatbed service for about the same price
maybe a little bit more
there are some benefits of using flatbed
services but it’s just not
it’s not cost effective to do that in
the uh
outside of the southeast
now what roamer is doing there is he’s
placing the gps device it’s a new
service we’re offering inside the crate
and a pre-labeled usps envelope
um
we’re right now we’re charging 125 bucks
for the service but we refund 100 when
the envelope gets back to us so it’s
only 25 bucks it gives both us and the
customers a lot of peace of mind
in some cases we
insist on it um in other cases it’s not
so it is important like north carolina
for instance
i really don’t need to keep gps on the
north carolina order but it can still be
helpful the carriers
are sometimes disorganized and we like
to know where our
nice big expensive crates are faster
than they sometimes are able to tell us
okay so we got the crate put together
the gps is inside
he’s putting sliders on the feet sliders
are very important
um
they they allow the crate not to the
feet not to roll over
and here is a surround view of that same
crate
now when customers are unloading these
um it’s generally one or two people on
the job site they climb into the back of
the truck with a crowbar and a hammer
and a knife and start breaking away this
crating
and sliding those boards out
individually now there’s we can make
other you know arrangements especially
if the customer has a skid steer or
forklift on site
those can be used also but in most cases
customers don’t have that stuff and it’s
real easy to unload
i included
this crate because it has step downs
it’s a little more common but it’s a
little more complicated to create
and i just wanted to make a nice easy
video showing
an easy crate but
it’s not unusual for a crate to look
like this would step down same process
same really everything
a whole lot more information about how
the shipping process works at bw
depot.com forward slash shipping
um again we’re real proud of the way we
crate and ship materials because nobody
doesn’t like us and nobody knows knows
how to do it as good as we do
so
we have heard horror stories of
uh competitors sending lumber and
you know the lumber shows up and it’s
just a mess so
don’t
buy lumber
that’s going on common carriers without
crating it’s very important thanks for
watching
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