Longer and lower vehicles present new challenges for today’s loading dock operators. Truck Levelers are used in applications where a dock is too high or low to service vehicles with coventional dock levelers. Our Truck Levelers safely raise or lower the vehicle to match the height of the loading dock. This allows for safer loading operations, especially in wet, icy or inclement weather conditions.
These truck levelers have the cylinders mounted completely out of the way beneath the platform. The travel on these units is typically divided with 18" up travel and 18" down travel, but the pit profile can be changed to provide other travel combinations.
These truck levelers have the cylinders straddling the platform. The units sit on top of the ground or in very shallow pits so they do not offer any down travel. In order to achieve the equivalent of down travel, some applications create a down slope from the hinge point of the leveler to the dock face, so that a truck bed lowers as it approaches the dock face when the truck leveler is fully lowered. These units are also mounted on perfectly level driveways.
