A busy loading dock is a beautiful thing for a facility manager. After all, a steady stream of deliveries and shipments coming and going means business is good. However, even the most well-trained ...

Mark Latsko manages a very busy -- and very secure -- dock at the Anderson-Dubose distribution center in Carnegie, Pa., outside of Pittsburgh. Forklifts enter and emerge from parked semi trailers in a ...

When you mix speed, forklifts and foot traffic with trailers and other heavy equipment, what do you get? A loading dock, of course. Unfortunately, you also get the setting for one in four industrial ...

Victoria Kickham, Senior Editor, started her career as a newspaper reporter in the Boston area before moving into B2B journalism. She has covered manufacturing, distribution, and supply chain issues ...

Leum Engineering Inc is heating up the loading dock industry with the official launch of the Dockzilla family of mobile yard ramps and portable loading docks. Designed with ergonomic and employee ...

"Dock walk," the phenomenon of the trailer's body moving slightly away from the loading dock when a heavy forklift rolls aboard, has been around since air-ride suspensions came into use on trailers.

Have you ever eaten in the rear end of a truck? How about at the end of a forklift or in a freight elevator? If either of those seem like odd questions to you now, imagine how they may have read to ...