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So — you’ve got a shipment. Pallets, boxes, crates, whatever. It needs to be stacked. The question is: how? Column or block? Vertical or staggered. Straight like a Lego tower or offset like bricks on a wall? Sounds like a simple choice. It’s not. The way you stack your goods can be the difference between a clean, efficient load — and a forklift operator muttering expletives as boxes rain from the top tier. Let’s break it down.

So, you’ve got stuff to ship. It’s packed, it’s ready, and now it’s staring at you from the loading dock — dozens of boxes, probably more than you remembered ordering. The next move? Getting them onto pallets. Properly. Because bad stacking leads to leaning towers, crushed products and unwrapping a pallet and watching everything spill like a sad waterfall. Let’s avoid that.

You’ve got cargo to ship. Could be boxes, could be furniture, could be 17 pallets of garden gnomes—no judgment. You’ve booked a container (or you’re about to), and now someone’s asking: “What’s the total volume of your load?” Right. Volume. That thing you forgot existed after 8th grade math class. It sounds simple… until you actually sit down to figure it out.

Let’s be honest—nobody really wakes up thinking, “Today’s the day I finally understand how tariffable weight is calculated.” And yet… here you are. Maybe you're shipping something weirdly shaped, or your freight costs suddenly jumped for no clear reason. Or maybe a logistics partner threw the term LDM at you and you nodded like you totally knew what they meant (you didn’t, and that’s fine—we’ve all been there). So, let’s unpack this. Literally.