While consumers are used to seeing commercial trucks on the highway, most do not realize the vital role trucks play in everyday logistics. In fact, a large number of trucks are now on the road to help meet the daily demand for shipments and deliveries.
If your company is involved with operations that require a loading dock, it is important to understand how this large variety of commercial trucks affects the efficiency, productivity, and safety of your loading dock. This is especially important if you don’t have a captive fleet of trucks.
Dock Levelers: One Size Does Not Fit All
To deal with the need for flexibility at the loading dock, manufacturers design and make available specialty loading dock equipment that accommodates a range of truck types and sizes. One of the most useful items is the loading dock leveler.
When you select and install the right loading dock leveler (also known as dock plate), you can efficiently work with different truck bed heights and sizes. A loading dock leveler also addresses the problem of different grades at the loading dock.
Loading Dock Equipment: Roll-Up Door, Dock Leveler with Dock Bumpers, and Dock Seal
To illustrate just how many different truck types you have to consider, here is a list of just a few of the models you can find waiting at your loading dock:
- Double axel semi-trucks and trailers
- Container trailers
- Flatbeds
- High cube vans
- Reefers
- Low boys
- Panel
- Stake trucks
- City trucks and vans
Whether you’re shipping products from your manufacturing facility or receiving goods for a retail store, you can’t afford to have your loading dock become a chokepoint due to the wrong-type truck showing up.
* Suggested Read: Loading Docks Equipment for Beginners *
If you are designing a new warehouse or distribution facility, or you need added flexibility at your current building, we can help. A call to Overhead Door Company of The Meadowlands & NYC is the first step to finding the ideal, personalized solution to all your loading dock needs. We work with only the most reliable manufacturers. Additionally, we sell, install, maintain and service the loading dock equipment.
For more information, please give us a call at 973-471-4060 or email us at info@loadingdock.com
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