Loading Dock Equipment
Loading dock equipment is designed to help make a company's dock area more efficient, safer or both. Important dock-area safety equipment includes truck restraints, wheel chocks and trailer jack stands, all of which work to prevent potentially serious injuries. Dock door seals and dock-area fans help to reduce dock-area utility costs. Dock bumpers significantly reduce accident-caused damage to docks as well as to trucks.
Loading dock barricades block fork trucks from rolling off for being accidentally driven off the dock edge. Dock barricades protect workers from potentially serious injury and property from significant damage.
Dock bumpers are designed to absorb the shock from trucks being inadvertently rammed into loading docks. These rubber bumpers, which are virtually maintenance-free, dramatically reduce incidences of loading dock accident damage both to docks as well as to trucks.
Dock door seals reducing utility costs by keeping weather elements from entering a building through its dock doors. Loading dock seals also keep out dust and bugs and assist in dock-area theft protection.
Loading dock levelers adjust for height differences between a truck platform and the loading dock bed. Hydraulic dock levelers also operated very efficiently as loading ramps in instances when a truck bed cannot be brought flush with a dock.
Loading dock lights provide vital directional signaling and important added visibility in loading dock areas. Dock-area fans and blowers provide increased employee comfort and also reduce energy costs.
Beacon commercial and industrial fans are designed for loading docks and similar work areas. These fans enhance employee comfort by circulating workspace air.
Ramps enable companies that have no loading docks to nonetheless receive and efficiently unload sizable truck cargoes. For businesses that do have docks, these trucks ramps enable waiting trucks to be unloaded when all docks are occupied.
Trailer jack stand support a trailer's front end when it's uncoupled from its rig at a loading dock. In doing so, stabilizing jacks prevent trailer upending, which can cause serious injuries.
Dock truck restraints ensure that parked trucks remain absolutely stationary while being loaded and unloaded. These mechanical trucks restraints prevent rollaway trucks and trailer creep, both of which can be very potentially hazardous.
Truck lifts correct uneven heights between a truck bed and a loading dock platform. Truck lift dock levelers raise the truck bed to the height of the platform, allowing for a smooth dock-to-truck-bed crossing.
Wheel chocks ensure that semi trailers and trucks remain secure when parked at loading docks. These molded chocks prevent the potentially hazardous instance of a rollaway truck.
Beacon steel wheel risers elevate semi-trailers to loading docks for maximum serviceability, are stackable for easy storage, and are in compliance with OSHA's requirement of a 10% maximum grade of ascending or descending loaded fork trucks.
Yard ramps allow for truck loading and unloading when there are no open dock slots. These truck loading ramps also provide an excellent means for truck unloading for businesses that have no loading docks.
