On 25/10/12 20:47, Phil L wrote:

The majority of the weight of a fully loaded HGV heading for Tesco will be
the truck itself, I mean, what do forty pallets of crisps weigh?
bread?
teabags?
There's loads of light goods that take up space but weigh next to nothing,
yet it costs the same as a 250kg pallet of lager to get to the
destination...what I'm saying here is that instead of thinking in terms of
weight versus fuel savings, it's capacity, IE space



When I shipped by worldly goods by sea, the charge was by the cubic meter.

Airfreight is by weight

But in the context of trucking a lot of things ARE heavy. Tins of this
and that and most liquids are about a tonne a cubic meter.

Crisps are the exception not the rule.

And if you have ever driven a fully loaded commercial vehicle you will
know that fuel consumption definitely increases.


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