With loading docks you must sometimes go with the flow. Modular docks represent a system that can be tailored to suit your requirements, over and over again if need be.
You may be justifiably proud of your fixed, conventional loading docks...until a task that needs a different layout and/or height comes along. You may have the chance to rent a standard, low-floored area at an attractive price but installing fixed loading bay equipment in it could soon make the deal anything but an economic proposition. The alternative – modular docks – aren't set in stone, or rather, set in concrete, and they have the advantage of giving you all the flexibility you need.
As their name implies, modular docks are made up of sections. Standard module types are their core components and these come in a number of standard sizes, each with a specified load capacity. Modular docks can typically be easily moved after they're dismantled and they have integral features that make them easy to use and, above all, safe. Peripheral elements, such as tough handrails, access ladders and/or steps, and truck raves enhance both flexibility and safety. It's also important that the loading bay equipment you choose is tough enough to survive typical ‘assaults' by trucks and forklifts...as well as those inexplicable knocks that happen from time to time.
The key point about modular docks lies in the modularity that gives them their name. Their bolt-together platform modules can be assembled in the required configuration over an unlimited area, to create loading docks that fit the available space...and fit the bill, for short-term or extended usage. The components are movable and their mobility means they can be quickly and easily relocated within the loading bay area. Moreover, their layout can be revised equally quickly as and when the need arises. The docks and any associated loading bay equipment can be used to enlarge or reduce the raised area and the variety of loading capacities available allows for the desired weight of operations. This allows you to tailor your loading bay equipment to cope with roll cages, pallet trucks or forklifts.
Modular docks have abilities that fixed loading docks are physically incapable of emulating. In addition to altering their location, layout and size, you can alter their height. This means that low-floored buildings can be equipped with loading bay equipment customized to suit the task in hand. This allows you to take full advantage of the fact that such buildings are widely available to rent at advantageous rates. Moreover, modular docks aren't limited to indoor use. They can be placed out of doors in a yard, either on a short-term basis or for as long a time as they're needed.
You have to be both flexible and versatile to succeed in today's competitive world of cargo handling. This is where the value of modular docks comes to the fore. They can be quickly and easily assembled into a structure with the required rigidity and load capacity. They can be disassembled, modified and/or moved with equal ease. This makes a system of modular docks sufficiently flexible and versatile to counteract the limitations of – and high costs imposed by – fixed loading bay equipment.
Chase Equipment are a leading international supplier of modular docks. See our website at Chase Equipment for more information.
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