I could believe this as criminals will know that they will be on the trucks on the 24th!
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I could believe this as criminals will know that they will be on the trucks on the 24th!
I agree, like the guy said earlier it's already happened once. What makes u think they wouldn't do it again?
whats it matter if its a phone or a stack of $500-$600 dollar bills? it doesnt really make it sad because its a phone
It is not ridiculous. The driver runs in and out of his truck all day making deliveries. One could step on board and go through the whole truck while he is knocking and ringing door bells. It's just too easy. Iphones have a huge street value and there has never been a such a well known shipment of a specific product on an exact day
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I read the other thread about CCL. Everyone has their own opinions and I have mine. As long as I am legally allowed to carry, I will have one with me.
I read the other thread about CCL. Everyone has their own opinions and I have mine. As long as I am legally allowed to carry, I will have one with me.
I think the employee is confused. I do remember other iphone launches where they had to put a shipping container outside the apple store at the mall (by the back door to the store), there were armed guards watching over the container. I think that is what he must be talking about....
I can believe this. I worked at *ahem* McDonalds in the mid-90s (right before I took a job doing dialup tech support, which looking back was a step down from McDonalds). This was during the Beanie Babies craze. I got so much overtime those days due to the hysteria surrounding that, but it was pretty fun anyway. (There's another related story here which I won't tell, but suffice it to say it involved a radio station and fire.)
Anyway: Normally truck shipments came in in two batches. Most of the supply came in via the normal McDonalds trucks you see on the freeway: it's actually a 3-zone trailer that has a freezer (for meats), a refrigerator (for normal perishables), and a regular section for the nonperishables. Non-food items such as happy meal toys and promo materials also came on that truck. The other truck that came was a non-McDonalds truck that delivered the buns. I can't remember what the company name is but it's probably different throughout the country. (McDonalds actually uses a lot of local/regional suppliers, because if nothing else it's cheaper than trucking food across the country.) Both of these trucks arrived during the day.
For the Beanie Babies happy meal launch, they got very paranoid (and rightfully so), and ended up hiring the bakery company to use their trucks because they didn't have the McDonalds name plastered all over them. Each truck was loaded with toys and contained a driver, an armed security guard, and an official corporate representative. The toys were delivered after midnight, and the rep had to sign out the shipment after it was received, to make sure none of them "disappeared" durring shipping. Of course the unmarked truck was used so people wouldn't notice a big McDonalds truck in the lot and rush it.
Anyway: Normally truck shipments came in in two batches. Most of the supply came in via the normal McDonalds trucks you see on the freeway: it's actually a 3-zone trailer that has a freezer (for meats), a refrigerator (for normal perishables), and a regular section for the nonperishables. Non-food items such as happy meal toys and promo materials also came on that truck. The other truck that came was a non-McDonalds truck that delivered the buns. I can't remember what the company name is but it's probably different throughout the country. (McDonalds actually uses a lot of local/regional suppliers, because if nothing else it's cheaper than trucking food across the country.) Both of these trucks arrived during the day.
For the Beanie Babies happy meal launch, they got very paranoid (and rightfully so), and ended up hiring the bakery company to use their trucks because they didn't have the McDonalds name plastered all over them. Each truck was loaded with toys and contained a driver, an armed security guard, and an official corporate representative. The toys were delivered after midnight, and the rep had to sign out the shipment after it was received, to make sure none of them "disappeared" durring shipping. Of course the unmarked truck was used so people wouldn't notice a big McDonalds truck in the lot and rush it.
I said dumbass for saying a 58ft truck. If your going to comment on BIG RIGS try and be educated on what trucks are allowed on the roads. By special permit only can you haul more then 80,000lbs. Trailers in the US can not carry more then 80,000lbs. 12,000lbs first axle, 34,000lbs rears and trailer 34,000lbs. out of the 80,000lbs a truck and trailer weighs about 25,000lbs which leaves about 55,000lbs for freight.
Now as small as the iphone boxes are you can not stack them on a pallet they would fall as soon as you unshrink wrapped em. Apple would not ship Iphones over BIG trailers all at once. Lets say they did, then they would have to put 4 in a box and stack that box on a pallet to make it work. The inside of a trailer is about 8ft wide and 8ft tall and 53ft long. Also if the whole truck is loaded with iphones then you would need special insurance that would be for a minimum of 10 million dollars on a 1 time basis.
I want my iphone like the next guy and it is fathers day if my grammar sucks I have a secretary that re writes everything for me
Now as small as the iphone boxes are you can not stack them on a pallet they would fall as soon as you unshrink wrapped em. Apple would not ship Iphones over BIG trailers all at once. Lets say they did, then they would have to put 4 in a box and stack that box on a pallet to make it work. The inside of a trailer is about 8ft wide and 8ft tall and 53ft long. Also if the whole truck is loaded with iphones then you would need special insurance that would be for a minimum of 10 million dollars on a 1 time basis.
I want my iphone like the next guy and it is fathers day if my grammar sucks I have a secretary that re writes everything for me
exactly. your every day Joe Blow could care less about a $5K Cisco router. 50 or even 100 iPhones would be a different story.
Actually, I remember a news story a year or two back about a truck full of Xbox 360's that got hit and they lost something like $30 million worth of them. If I remember correctly it was somewhere in the UK, but its been a while so I can't be sure. That wasn't even on launch day or anything like that either.
I said dumbass for saying a 58ft truck. If your going to comment on BIG RIGS try and be educated on what trucks are allowed on the roads. By special permit only can you haul more then 80,000lbs. Trailers in the US can not carry more then 80,000lbs. 12,000lbs first axle, 34,000lbs rears and trailer 34,000lbs. out of the 80,000lbs a truck and trailer weighs about 25,000lbs which leaves about 55,000lbs for freight.
Now as small as the iphone boxes are you can not stack them on a pallet they would fall as soon as you unshrink wrapped em. Apple would not ship Iphones over BIG trailers all at once. Lets say they did, then they would have to put 4 in a box and stack that box on a pallet to make it work. The inside of a trailer is about 8ft wide and 8ft tall and 53ft long. Also if the whole truck is loaded with iphones then you would need special insurance that would be for a minimum of 10 million dollars on a 1 time basis.
I want my iphone like the next guy and it is fathers day if my grammar sucks I have a secretary that re writes everything for me
i already said i confused 48 with 53. now do you think they could fit more or less iphones?
No you forgot what you wrote. You wrote 58ft, 48ft and 53ft trailers are on our nation's highways. Also you said you would bet 30% would be 20-30 pallets. A pallet is 4ft by 4ft give or take, so 50 iphone boxes per layer would leave you with a whole lot of room on a pallet.
I think 10X7 per layer would work to fill the pallet pretty good. Maybe 10 layers tall, without putting them into another box. The iphone comes in a pretty small package already, thats why I would think apple would put those phones into another box and have 4 phones per box to be able to stay on the pallet with out falling off easily.
But I could be wrong, just hard to tell. The phones are very sensitive material. I as a trucking company or a driver would really have to check how they put it on a pallet so I would not be held responsible for any damage to any iphone. At a cost of $600 average per phone.
Love how it went from talking about guarding the iphones to how many will fit on a pallet. Good stuff lol
I wish I could program. I would so make a game based on what you said. The delivery guy vs. iPhone zombies.
By my calculations if we did 22 pallets 10x7, 10 layers at a cost of $600 per phone, that would be a cost of $9,240,000 dollars on 1 truck load. If we did it your way at 10x5 per layer, 7 layers at 22 pallets the cost would be $4,620,000 dollars.
You know how hard it is to get 1 million dollar cargo insurance? Now try 5 or 10 million?
You know how hard it is to get 1 million dollar cargo insurance? Now try 5 or 10 million?
i was talking about demonstrating how cash dense the iphone could be as a product to be stolen off a truck since this guy was saying it was unrealistic to have 50 32gb iphones together.
More than 50 Iphones on any truck is easy to have. To do a truck load would not be advised at all by apple, thats way to many iphones on 1 FULL truck to lose.
Is the iphone $599 (16GB), or $699 (32GB)? With out a contract?
Is the iphone $599 (16GB), or $699 (32GB)? With out a contract?
Just for fun...each iphone box is supposed to be ~5"x3"x2.5". So, a 48x40 pallet can hold roughly 128 per layer and thats 2.5" high... so say you stack a pallet 48" high...thats 19 cell phones high....
128x19 = 2432 per pallet x 22 pallets? 53504 per truck... x 600 each... $32mil?
That would NEVER happen. I just dont know why people think these trucks are going to get robbed.
Correct I did not know the dimensions at all. I was going by looking at my 3gs box and trying to figure how many could be put on a pallet. There is NO way in hell APPLE would but that much on 1 truck. No trucking company would take a 32 million dollar load for lets say $2,300 freight price. The driver would end up killed, and to much risk.
At those measurements most likely they would only do it about 4 high because the boxes are so small and slippery. The load would still cost about $6,758,400 dollars, on 22 pallets.
Yah they Arent going to put 30 million dollars worth of product on one truck, that's insane.