"Shipping full trucks is most economical -- but research shows that 96% of the trucks traveling our highways are more than 5% under loaded by weight.  Why are trucks under loaded?    No one deliberately under loads a vehicle, but determining what to put on a truck to fully utilize its capacity is a complex job that requires a lot of skill.  Very few people are able to succeed at this in real life, and in this "easy"  game, very few people can succeed in under 3 tries.  Only one person that we know of has won on his first try -- and he was one of our loading experts -- so he had a little bit of an advantage. 

Here is how you test your skill -- first we are going to ask for some information about you.  The rules of the game are that there are some items that MUST go -- which means at least one pallet of the product has to be put on the truck.  The goal is to put exactly 8 pallets on the load and use up all the weight capacity.  This means that both the front and rear axles must be exactly at 34,000 pounds

Good luck....."


 

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