Notice in the picture below that only the front part of this 26-foot truck has been loaded so far. If you’ll look carefully, you’ll see larger pieces standing on the floor of the truck with smaller, lighter items stacked neatly on top of them.
How to load a moving truck
Basically, this is how you load the entire truck in order to get maximum capacity from your truck’s cargo area. You start at the front of the cargo area and place bigger furniture pieces on the floor, against the wall and stack boxes around them and place smaller, lighter items and
Then you strap off that tier so that it doesn’t shift around and you start another one in front of it and do the same. And so on until the truck is fully loaded, maybe finishing off like the unusual load pictured below.
At the end of the truck you usually stack mattresses with flat fragile items like a big mirror or a headboard placed in between them. The fully loaded truck pictured above is extremely unique because it is one of two trucks on this job, the one with all of the boxes.
How to bed load a moving truck
If you have a large truck and a smaller load, then you might want to do an easier bed load. Bed loading means that you don’t stack things on top of other things at all, you just set them on the floor (bed) of the truck and brace them all around so they don’t shift while the truck is being driven. This makes for easier loading and unloading but it can use up a whole lot of truck floor space for just a small amount of stuff.
Bed loading does not take advantage of the truck’s 7′ to 9′ interior height so it wastes a lot of cubic feet of transport space. This is why bed loading is only done with a bigger truck and a smaller load.
If you get stuck when loading a moving truck, then you can always turn to experienced professionals who have loaded and unloaded moving trucks hundreds of times.
