Everyone has heard a story about a box of cable, or something heavy and vital to the show, being left back at the shop. It was packed and ready to go. It just inadvertently got pushed behind a black curtain while the truck was being loaded. This usually requires some counter-to-counter airfreight shipping the next day and beaucoup bucks spent that nobody recoups. This is easily preventable. Nowadays I believe most professional equipment vendors use some computer program to calculate truck packs and space. In order to do that, the program needs to have a list of all road cases and truss going into it. It seems to me that if you had someone stand at the truck with this same list and check off all the items as they enter the truck, they would notice that the cable box was never packed before the driver pulled away.”
From “LD-at-Large” by Nook Schoenfeld, PLSN, Sept. 2009
