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Loading docks are the critical link between your facility and your customers, which makes them integral to your productivity.


Loading Dock Equipment Basics
To increase your on-the-job safety, consider using the following types of loading dock equipment.

Destination: Loading Dock Safety
Vehicle restraints help prevent the most common dock accident—early truck pull away.

Systems Loading Dock Equipment: Poweramp UXL Vehicle Restraint for Loading Dock
Poweramp's wheel-based vehicle restraint solution for loading dock safety.

BrinkAlert: Truck Restraint Light Kit (TRLK)
LED Lighting system that activates when a tractor-trailer truck locks onto a warehouse dock. This life‐safety innovation helps prevent forklifts from falling off docks or departing trucks.

Ideal Warehouse Innovations: The Shuntable Trailer Stand 2.0
Our No Boots on the Ground® Shuntable Trailer Stand 2.0 prevents trailer collapse while safely keeping workers off the dock approach in an efficient manner.

Loading Dock Safety with New Trailer Designs
Truck trailer manufacturers are continuously modifying designs of their trailers’ RIGs to improve safety based on impact testing.

Container Unloader from TAWI Expedites Unloading
Address warehouse and distribution centers’ lifting needs and solve lifting challenges with mobility and adaptability to fit different operations. Improve efficiency and safety while unloading containers and sortation.

Docks That Deliver on Serviceability, Operator Comfort
When flexible packaging supplier Glenroy added docks as part of a facility expansion, vertical storing levelers offered ease of maintenance and a lift-truck friendly, smooth transition into trailers.

Rite-Hite TS-5000 Trailer Stabilizer
The TS-5000 Trailer Stabilizer from Rite-Hite® can help protect against landing gear collapse and help ensure your workers go home safely each night.

Rite-Hite debuts two new products - Direct Drive HVLS Fan and the Trailer Stabilizer
Rite-Hite (Booth B1747) is showcasing two new products at the show. The Direct Drive HVLS Fan and the Trailer Stabilizer round out the manufacturer’s product line.

MEIJER Handling Solutions Inc.: KOOI-Pallet Bumper Load Protector
When mounted in the center of the forklift carriage, the KOOI-Pallet Bumper load protector from Meijer Handling Solutions reduces damage to products and pallets.

Vestil Manufacturing: Truck Scissor Dock Lifts
These truck scissor dock lifts from Vestil Manufacturing are ideal for pit and surface mount applications. Lifts feature easy to use push-button control for precise positioning.

Beacon Industries: Dock levelers for all applications
Beacon World Class standard and special size hydraulic and manual dock levelers provide solutions for new and old building construction.

DLM: HED Series Edge-of-Dock Leveler
Hydraulic dock leveler easy to operate

Beacon Industries: Line of edge-of-dock levelers
Edge-of-dock levelers decrease back strain A line of edge-of-dock levelers uses a lever bar to operate. Easier and safer to operate than a standard dock plate, the unit incorporates a...

Dock safety, presence detection devices debut at Rite-Hite
The additional camera view of the exterior vehicle restraint lets an operator visually confirm engagement with a trailer’s rear impact guard (RIG)

Laser Tools Company: GLX green laser modules with line generators
Laser system helps trailers backing into tight loading spaces

Mars Air Systems: Windguard Series of industrial air curtains
Create barriers that keep contaminants out of warehouse with air curtains

BTR Controls: DG-Mini Advanced Integrated Controller
Housed in a compact package, the DG-Mini advanced integrated variable speed controller is engineered for industrial doors, gates and docks. The all-inclusive controller interfaces with motors up to 2 horsepower at...

Global Industrial: Line of High-Traction Dock Plates
Constructed of 3/8-inch thick aluminum, a line of high-traction dock plates features a diamond tread surface that creates more surface contact points. The plate is rugged to withstand heavy traffic,...