The new Air Guide truck trailer technology from Industrial Conveying is suited to warehouses and factories that handle palletised goods and are loaded by forklifts.
It suits industries ranging from beverage and food through to manufacturing, retail and third party logistics and reduces truck loading time to as little as three minutes.
Air Guide flooring quickly loads stacked pallets that come out of an automated warehouse, plus it has the added advantage of providing easy unloading duties to a driver at delivery points.
The challenge was to design and produce a system that raises guides for automated loading but retracts once the load is in place.
The solution is the use of guides that inflate with air. Once the load is on board, a driver simply deflates the raised guides to return to a flat, even floor that allows the use of regular pallet trucks.
When a truck backs into a bay, it is automatically levelled and aligned. The load is prepared on the dock and once the truck is in place the press of a button has the load shipped onto the back of the truck.