Load for several Stops

How to give Cargo Lines a Stop, name the Stops, and read the Stop warnings, so a truck that delivers to several places is loaded in the right order.

A truck that delivers to Hamburg, then Hanover, then Kassel must carry the Kassel cargo deepest and the Hamburg cargo at the door. A Stop is one drop on that trip. You set it per Cargo Line as a number from 1 to 99. Stop 1 is unloaded first. Calculate loads later Stops first, so they sit nearer the front wall, and it tries to keep cargo for an earlier Stop from being blocked by cargo for a later one.

A Cargo Line without a Stop is unloaded after every Stop. It is loaded first, nearest the front wall. A Project in which no Cargo Line has a Stop behaves as it always did.

Give Cargo Lines a Stop

1. Open the Project and choose the Cargo tab.
2. In the grid, find the Stop column. If it is not there, open Columns above the grid and tick Stop. The column also appears by itself when a Cargo Line already has a Stop.
3. Type the Stop number into the cell of each Cargo Line. Use whole numbers from 1 to 99. Gaps are fine: Stops 1 and 3 work without a Stop 2. Leave the cell empty for cargo that has no Stop.

You can also set the Stop field in the Cargo Line dialog, paste it from Excel, or import it. The import maps the headers “Stop”, “Drop”, “Stop no”, and “Unload stop”. A value that is not a whole number from 1 to 99 flags the cell. The CSV and XLSX cargo export ends with a Stop column.

A Library Item has no Stop, because the Stop belongs to the shipment and not to the product. Set it on the Cargo Line.

Within one Stop, a higher Loading priority is unloaded first. Pieces of one Stop never block each other.

Name the Stops

Names are optional. They make the grid, warnings, and documents easier to read.

1. On the Cargo tab, open More cargo actions (⋯) and choose Delivery stops.
2. Type a name next to each Stop, for example “Hamburg”. The dialog lists every Stop that a Cargo Line uses or that already has a name.
3. Choose Save names.

The names belong to the Project, so every Load Plan of the Project shares them. A name is a label only. Renaming a Stop does not make a Load Plan Out of date. Changing the Stop of a Cargo Line does, so Recalculate afterward.

If someone else renamed a Stop while the dialog was open, Cargo Marshal keeps your edits, loads their names, and asks you to review before you save again.

Read the result

Calculate, then look at the Load Plan.

• The Warnings tab lists a blocked Stop per Unit, for example “cargo for Stop 2 (Hanover) is blocked by cargo that unloads later”. It names the blocked and the blocking cargo and suggests moving the cargo in the way or changing the Stop of one of the lines. If the blocking cargo has no Stop, the warning says that it unloads last and that setting a Stop clears the warning.
• Cargo for a Stop counts as blocked when later cargo sits above it, or when later cargo closes every opening it could leave through, such as the rear door or a side opening.
• The warning is not a hard rule. Calculate is never refused because of it, and your own moves and locks may cause it. Calculate itself avoids it without leaving cargo Unloaded or adding a Unit.
• The Loading Report and the Share Link checklist group the cargo by Stop, with the Stop’s name when it has one. Cargo without a Stop is grouped as “No Stop · unloaded last”.

The loading steps follow the same order. They load the latest Stop first and the cargo that unloads first last. See Create your first Load Plan for how the steps are checked.

Stops and CMR notes

The Stop also decides which consignee receives which cargo on a CMR consignment note. See CMR consignment notes.