We’ve got a 700-person expo at the Civic on 11/14 with a single dock and a 4-hour load-in window — how are you sequencing trucks and crews to avoid dead time? I’m planning two 26’ box trucks shuttling from an offsite lot 1.2 miles away, color-coded pallets, and a dock captain on radio to flip empties; any tweaks you swear by for keeping vendor freight moving and on-site teams coordinated?
I’d lock 8–10 min slots for the single dock and run a WhatsApp ETA thread; your dock captain “flips empties” and bumps late arrivals to a curbside buffer. Make the two 26’ shuttles load last-on/first-off by zone with big face tags so every pallet hits the floor dock‑ready. If crews still stall, add one sprinter loop just for smalls and cable to cover gaps — open to that?
With the 1.2-mile hop, put the two 26’ shuttles on a fixed-minute cadence — ‘A on:00/:24/:48, B on:12/:36’ — so the dock never idles, and reverse-load by your color codes so first-off is last-on. Stage one pre-built flatbed per zone at the dock mouth so crews swap carts in under 60 seconds instead of re-stacking; @largree’s bump logic still applies; can your offsite team load in that reverse order?