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The Impact of Strapping on Transportation Costs and Efficiency

At USA Strapping, we understand the need to secure your cargo during transit affordably. We carry a wide range of quality strapping products to help you secure your cargo during shipping or transit at prices that usually beat the national average by around 10 percent. Using straps to secure your cargo for transport has several benefits, including:

  • Ensuring load stability and reducing damages to inventory
  • Ease of loading and unloading cargo
  • Compliance with safety transportation

Let’s explore how the efficient use of quality straps can secure your cargo during shipping and transit, saving you time and effort.

Reducing Damages During Shipments

If you’ve shipped enough products, you’ve likely experienced the frustration of a product arriving at its destination with damage sustained during transit. While estimates vary globally, approximately 1-5% of shipped goods arrive at their destination damaged. The largest cause of these damages is poor packaging and inadequate strapping. With the right strapping, you can significantly reduce the chances of your product being damaged in transit, providing you with a reassuring peace of mind about your cargo’s safety.

Load Stability: With straps, you can properly secure your load, ensuring its stability during transit and reducing the chances of the load shifting, collapsing, or falling during shipping. Straps are an affordable way to secure your cargo and ensure load stability by equally applying tension to the load while anchoring it in place.

Shock and Impact Absorption: For fragile loads, straps made from polyester and nylon can absorb impacts and vibrations from the road or handling by stretching slightly to absorb these impacts. For heavier loads, steel straps can decrease the chances of a strap breaking from stress during shipment.

Prevention From Pallet Collapse: As shipping and transit are done as efficiently as possible, cargo is often stacked in pallets to use space efficiently. While this saves money and decreases the cost of shipping, it can lead to pallet collapses that can damage products. Straps can prevent pallet collapse during transit and are cost-efficient for shippers to secure their cargo.

Ease of Loading and Unloading Cargo

When secured with straps as bundles, cargo can be quickly loaded and unloaded, making it more efficient to move, transport, and ship large amounts of cargo. Bundles and pallets of cargo can be efficiently moved with forklifts and other equipment to reduce the need for extra labor and improve the efficiency of shipping operations overall. Once a bundle or load has reached its destination, straps can be quickly removed, separating the bundled product quickly.

Importance of Safety Compliance

The United States Department of Transportation sets rules and regulations regarding the shipping and transportation of products across the US. This includes ensuring:

  • Prevention of load shifting and collapse
  • Compliance with load distribution guidelines
  • Secure strength requirements

Straps are an affordable and effective way to meet these safety requirements. Straps come in all sizes, with steel straps being an excellent choice for larger loads and polyester straps being a great choice for smaller and more fragile loads. While meeting compliance with safety transportation ensures everyone’s safety, it also decreases the chances of your product being damaged in transit.

Contact USA Strapping For Help With Properly Securing Your Shipments

At USA Strapping, we are proud to bring modern solutions to shipping and transportation with our high-quality straps and strapping products. Contact us today by phone at 888-768-0001 to learn more about our straps, strapping tools, and additional strapping products.