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The stacking rules a crew chief carries in their head, written down: what ATA 300 actually requires of a lid, why caster dishes decide the stack, the caster math on threes instead of fours, and which cases are never on the bottom. Tell us where this is wrong before we build it.
Multi-truck planning and the container library shipped in v0.10. Bus trailer support and the stackable packing constraint are still marked Planned, and we would rather build them from your trailer than from a whiteboard. Book 25 minutes and tell us which one goes first.
Can you drive a Sprinter with a trailer on the Merritt? No, and it fails twice. Road by road on where a van, trailer, box truck or 26-footer can and cannot legally go in New York, Connecticut and Boston, with the clearance numbers and what to put in the advance.
The industry splits into two camps: production managers who build the truck pack in their head, and people renting a $1,530-a-year CAD suite to draw boxes. Neither one can tell you if the pack they called was the best one available.
Multi-truck packing shipped in v0.10. Here is what we deliberately left out: the all-trucks-at-once god view, nested containers, forced case assignment, and treating a truck as a special object. Plus the migration nobody sees.
Multi-truck packing landed in v0.10, and the change that matters is downstream: crew view and PDF export now generate per container, with their own checklist, checkbox state and weight readout per truck.
Truck Packer v0.10 is the biggest release since launch: multi-truck packing on Business accounts, a full container library, a loading dock inspector, per-truck crew views and PDFs, and AutoPack into the container you pick.
SourceForge ranks 30 load planning tools and Truck Packer is not one of them. An honest head to head against Cube-IQ, EasyCargo and Cargo-Planner, run on one real 59-case tour load, with the screenshots attached.
A sourced reference sheet for anyone budgeting or booking trucks this year: mid-year touring grosses and show counts, record spot rates, diesel, the CDL and English-proficiency capacity squeeze, cargo theft losses per incident, and two numbers from our own load plans.
Ship your own rig on an ATA carnet or rent backline in Europe? The carnet paperwork runs about $665 on a $75,000 rig while rental stacks per day per show. Here is where the lines cross, with real numbers, and why the hybrid usually wins.
EasyCargo publishes an eleven-tool price comparison, from a free calculator to Cube-IQ at $2,500 a year. Two rows have already moved. Here is the ladder re-checked, the team-seat math nobody compares, and where Truck Packer honestly sits on it.
Fall routing is where a rig stops fitting in one trailer. The hard part of a two or three truck pack is not volume, it is that unload order, department integrity, and per-truck weight are constraints that span trucks. What we think the feature has to solve.
