Packing your Trünk

Trunkmoves is a DIY solution for shipping your essentials.

Often, our essentials are made up of special items that are used for our normal living and work lives.

Our team found some really useful videos for you to watch and get ideas on some really good practices when protecting your essentials. As you view these videos, keep in mind that your trunk will transport much like luggage on an airline.  The top where you packed most definitely will be the bottom or side at some point during shipping. Below you'll see videos on How Packages are Handled, Using Vacuum Bags to pack more densely, Packing Fragile Items, Larger Item Packing, Smaller Item Packing, Packing a Computer, and Packing a Monitor. 

What we know and you should know too: Forces greater than 3G are typical in parcel shipping. What this means is a package that weighs 100lbs will have forces 3x (300lbs) or more during the handling. The trunk is designed to withstand these forces but without the proper packaging inside, a user is at a higher risk for damages.

How Packages are Handled

You already have the best parcel crate to protect your essential items during transit for large and heavy goods. To underscore the need for the best packing possible take a few moments to view this video on how packages move through parcel. We hope that by viewing you will see the needs for cushion inside your trunks. With insufficient packing, padding, wrapping, and filling of each small bit of space, you jeopardize the safety of your items. 

Using Vacuum Bags

Clothing, especially bulky clothing can use a great deal of room inside your Trünk. Some users of Trünk will use vacuum bags as a way to consolidate and condense what they are packing. 

 

Packing Your Fragile Items

Using a Trünk to ship what is essential to you often includes something fragile. We thought this video captures the best ways to pack fragile items to ship via parcel. Bubble wrap and packing tape are items commonly available in many retail stores as well as online. 

Larger Item Packing

Smaller Item Packing

Packing your Computer in a Trünk

Often a desktop or an extra laptop computer is part of the essentials that Trünk users want to ship. We believe that the following video is a best practice in packing a desktop for shipping. 

Packing your Computer Monitor in a Trünk

Computer monitors are pretty sensitive and special care in protecting your monitor when shipping is up to you. The following video is a great source for how best to protect your monitor when making a Trunkmove.

 

Packing your Laptop Computer in a Trünk

Laptop computers require special care in protecting your equipment when shipping is up to you. The following video is a great source for how best to protect your laptop when making a Trunkmove. The demonstrator uses both large bubble wrap and a sperate box to keep their shipment safe.