How to Calculate Freight Density

Alright. Well, now we have some freight to measure. Would you mind giving us, the walk through? Well, first thing we do, of course, we walk around the freight, make sure there's no damage visible whatsoever. Then we take length times width times height. Now when we do the length times width times height, we have to measure it from longest point to longest point. You know sometimes we have shippers that put a cone on top and it says "do not stack." Well, we'll have to measure to the top of that cone. Or sometimes we'll have shippers that have an oversized pallet. Well, we have to measure the pallet. And if the freight overhangs, then we have to measure the freight, whichever one is longest point to longest point. And in this case, it's going to be the pallet. So we'll go down through here. So it's 44 by 36 by 48. And then we'll we'll write that down. We'll record that down. Now, how we figure the densities on this, we'll take the length times width times height, multiply that altogether, and then we'll divide that number by 1728. Where we get 1728 is 12 times 12 times 12, which is how many cubic inches are in a cubic foot. Say this one comes out to 50 cubic feet, Then we'll take the weight and we'll say that it's 600 pounds and we'll divide 600 by the cubic footage. So 600 divided by 50 would be 12. So the density of this pallet would be 12 pounds per cubic feet. Now on a density scale, you're looking at for anywhere from a class 400 all the way down to a class 60. So depending on where that falls, say 12 pounds per cubic foot would fall between 12 and 15, which would be a class 85. So this particular shipment would be a class 85, and that's how we figure that up. And if you're not an expert at math like myself, you can also go on Averitt.com/density-calculator to input your numbers to get the actual density as well to help speed up the process. Yes. All you need to know is the measurements of your shipment and the weight of your shipment. You can put that into our calculator, and it will figure the density for you. Great. And we'll show how that works. Alright. Now that we're on the Averitt website, we can get to the density calculator. So when we're here, we can put in the number of pieces for the shipment, which was one. Then we can put in the length, which was forty four inches Then we can do the width, which was thirty six inches And then we can do the height, which was forty eight inches Finally, we'll put in the weight, which we said was six hundred pounds. Now that we've put those points in, we can calculate it. Now we have our measurements at forty four cubic feet with a density of thirteen point sixty four.