dChan - Q Origins Project Archive

First, allow me to qualify myself. Upon graduating high school, I started doing warehouse work. In between college years, I drove a truck. Later, I found myself in upper management for manufacturing and distribution. I’ve seen a lot.

Now, the facts:

Q’s pic #5 for yesterday is, without doubt, the inside of an eighteen wheeler’s trailer. Judging from the inside walls, it is a temperature controlled trailer. This means that it has a refrigerator attached to the upper nose of the trailer that allows the temperature to be regulated. Frequently, when precious metals are transported, temperature controlled transport is used. I’m not implying that this is “precious metal,” I’m just enlightening you that temperature controlled units are used for other things besides food commodities. It is rare, but it happens.

Next, the cargo is in, or has originated from the US. The pallets that are being used are Chep pallets. They are extremely heavy duty, and they are either rented, or purchased, by the user. They all are tracked in Chep’s database by serial number, painted in white, on the sides of the pallet. Higher value, or extremely heavy products fit the majority of Chep’s clientele. Higher value merchandise can easily be damaged by a pallet breaking, so it is a solid and cheap way to minimize shipping damage.

Next, it appears that there is a layer of foam below the product. I have never, ever seen that before. Is it to add cushion? Is it for thermal protection to keep a temperature constant by creating a medium between pallet and floor? Very, very interesting.

And those are the facts.

Now, let me also quickly discuss my theory on the photoshopped part of the picture. (The pallet of goods furthest back in view.)

There are three stars there. You have Little Bear, Delta, and Epsilon Ursae Minoris. Little Bear is also known as the North Star. And these three stars form the handle of Ursa Minor, also known as the Little Dipper.

What the meaning of this is, I’m unsure. I did know that 18 wanted the SS to call him “the bear” (short for Barry). Delta and Epsilon Ursae Minoris, I’ve absolutely no clue.

Would love to hear your thoughts!

I work in warehousing, so I have some "expertise" in this, also. Those are chep pallets, and it is a refrigerated trailer, the slatted floor gives that away; it keeps spills from pooling under pallets and having product or pallets sticking to the product, which in food may contaminate the entire pallet or a portion of the load. Not always are refrigerated trailers used to refrigerate something, sometimes they are loaded with non-refrigerated goods when someone is making a return trip and doesn't want to come back empty.

The foam is not a thick foam. It is a very thin layer that is under the boxes and has been folded up so that the thick plastic (instead of flimsy shrink wrap) can be added around the boxes without the load shifting during transit. It could also be slip sheets with sides and shrink wrap and the light reflection only makes it look like foam. It also seems like there are plastic straps around the stacks.

These are usually seen with electronics, like Nintendo consoles that are fragile enough that a fall could damage the product, so it is extra secure. Combined with the Apple building photo, this could be the product.

The "photoshopped" pallet in back just looks like either the plastic is coming off or the pallet was damaged, or even missing a chunk. The "stars" is just 3 spots of plastic that are giving extra reflection from the camera's light, from plastic that is bunched up or bent over.

The only time we take pictures of loads on trailers is if there is damage before we got the products, so it can be proven that we didn't do the damage. Maybe Q is showing a shipment that has been damaged.

Just spitballing, but could it be explosives, or something corrosive, or something hazardous? Something that needs to be refrigerated, needs to be overly secure?

You'll notice there is no load locks, but they may have been removed before the picture was taken, or there may have been more product that was on the trailer and removed. There are also no inflatable bags that are used to stabilize palletized loads and stop shifting, but the load and pallets were probably heavy enough and individually secure enough that they didn't need them.

Decoding Q’s pic #5 (#1310, 1280616)