Extra-Thick Loading Dock Bumper Excellently Cushions Truck Impacts
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Apart from ensuring that trucks and semi trailers are loaded and unloaded quickly, a key aspect of loading-dock-area cost-effectiveness is the prevention of damage-causing accidents. Because of how busy loading dock areas can get, coupled with the significant size and weight of the vehicles moving in and out, these areas can often incur costly accidents. There can be instances of trailer creep, rollaway trucks, trailer upending, and inattentive drivers ramming into various equipment and structures. Necessary accident-prevention equipment for dock areas includes truck restraints, jack stands, traffic signal dock lights, and wheel chocks. An additional indispensable and very cost-effective type of damage-prevention equipment is the extra-thick laminated
dock bumper. Please take a brief moment to read the following concise article concerning this excellent
loading dock bumper model and how it can prevent significant dollar-loss damage to your loading docks.
Maneuvering a truck through a busy loading dock area and then backing it up to a dock often is not an easy task, even for very experienced drivers. They can misjudge the distance between the dock and the back of their truck. Or they can simply not brake properly. In any event, visiting drivers backing too close and striking a concrete dock is by no means an infrequently occurrence. The question for the facility’s manager is: “How much damage has this driver just done to my dock?” If the dock is equipped with an extra-thick laminated
loading dock bumper, the answer virtually always is going to be: “None.” The key reason for this is that these laminated
loading dock bumpers, constructed of 6-inch-thick recycled rubber, have both the hardness and the resilience to enable them to excellently protect docks from truck impacts.
An extra-thick laminated
loading dock bumper attaches permanently to each dock and serves as an extremely effective cushion in the event of a truck or trailer impact. Each dock bumper is a high-quality piece of
material handling equipment that protects from damage not only the docks themselves, but also frequently the trucks than may ram into them as well. Its design and composition is the result of considerable compression testing that has provided valuable information on how to best construct this cushioning equipment for optimum impact resistance. Considering how much damage a truck can do to an unprotected dock in a single ramming instance, these
loading dock bumpers often pay for themselves the first time a truck strikes them.
An important additional aspect of these extra-thick
laminated dock bumpers is that they are designed for significant sturdiness in order to perform their impact-cushioning job over many years of use. These
loading dock bumpers are extremely heavy-duty and stand up excellently over many years to adverse weather conditions such as rain, snow, extreme cold, or intense heat. They are virtually maintenance-free and are designed not to harden, rot, warp, or crack over years of continued use. Considering their modest initial cost versus the damage they can prevent over the years, these dock bumpers are among the most cost-effective protective equipment available for industrial use today. It is the customer’s responsibility to verify correctness of fit for applications.
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