Benefits of dunnage air bags
Some of the benefits of dunnage air bags include: reduction in materials, load and unload times, damage, and increases in efficiencies. Let's take a deep look at each of these to see why these shipping bags return positive ROI.
Reduction in materials: Can you use less stretch film to wrap your pallets while still getting the same or better product protection? Check this out. A distribution center was averaging 14 wraps per pallet. With the inclusion of air bags in their trailers, they were able to decrease the number of wraps to 8 per pallet, decreasing their material usage by nearly 43% per pallet. When you’re wrapping thousands of pallets a day that quickly adds up, potentially savings millions each year.
Reduction in load and unload times: Time is money, how many times have you heard that? The addition of air bags can help to reduce average unloading time by up to 66%. Not only are you saving time, you're saving money because you pay less for driver downtime and less fuel consumption as the truck is idling.
Reduction in damage claims: Freight damage happens all the time, whether its visible or not. It only takes an instant, a fast break, potholes, a fast turn, for damage to occur. Installing dunnage air bags in trailers to fill the voids left between pallets will help reduce damage claims by up to 80%.
Increase in efficiencies: By using air bags to help secure loads, the need for the more traditional methods, such as the stair stacking technique, is eliminated. By rearranging the load style, shippers are able to increase the number of cases they ship out by up to 10% per truck load.