Reading this thread one gets the impression that the professional load master leaps out with his set of scales. weight the boxes, secures them on the pallet, adds up the total pallet weight, and loads the pallets into the correct pallet postion on the aircraft to allow for floor weight and C. of G.
I must have been in the wrong operation
On a 1 hour turnaround or through stop the LM had 1 hour to get the pallets off and load the new ones
on (23/28 pallets).
All he has to work on is the declared pallet weight.
If thats out he is out !
I would be interested to see how long the aircraft and loadmaster spent in Halifax and how many pallets he loaded.
If there is an error it is not likely to be the LM, it will be underdeclared pallets weights
On some of our operations we loaded the pallets in our own facility but in some cases we just picked up from the forwarder/ handling agent