List what you are shipping

Under Cargo, press Add cargo and pick a shape — box, pallet, big bags, sacks, barrels, roll, pipes or bulk. Give it length, width, height, the weight of one piece and how many you have. Round shapes ask for a diameter instead of a width.

Use groups to keep parts of a shipment together. The plan loads them in order.

Set the loading rules, if they matter

Inside the cargo dialog, Loading rules controls how a piece may be handled: whether it can be tipped onto its side or end, how many layers it may be stacked, the most weight allowed on top, and whether anything may sit on it at all.

Tick Load this onto pallets for any line that travels palletized. The pallet itself is set once for the whole shipment, below the cargo list — pick a standard such as Euro or GMA, or enter your own.

Choose the equipment

Press Add container to pick from containers, trucks or air pallets. Every dimension and the payload can be edited if your equipment differs.

Use my counts loads only as many units as you say, and reports anything that will not fit. Optimize from my list works out how many you need and, when you have listed more than one type, uses whichever needs the fewest. It only ever considers the types you have added.

Read the plan

The plan updates as you type. Drag to turn it, scroll to zoom, and use the view buttons for a straight top or side view. The Loading slider plays the load in and out so you can see the order.

When a plan needs several units, each one gets a chip above the plan showing how full it is. Clicking a row in the equipment list jumps to that unit too.

Check the numbers

Result shows how much of the space and payload each unit uses, the cargo it holds and the shipment totals. For a shared container it gives the chargeable volume-or-weight; for air freight it gives the chargeable weight against the volumetric divisor. Warnings appear here — cargo left over, a box too heavy for the road, or a load small enough to be worth pricing as LCL.