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Modern loading bay with overhead door, dock leveller and dock shelter. A loading dock or loading bay is an area of a building where goods vehicles (usually road or rail) are loaded and unloaded. They are commonly found on commercial and industrial buildings, and warehouses in particular. Loading docks may be exterior, flush with the building ...
J and K Wings viewed from the green roof of the Foege Building loading dock. The Warren G. Magnuson Health Sciences Center is a university hospital part of the University of Washington campus in Seattle and one of the largest buildings in the United States with a total floor area of 5.8 million square feet (540,000 m 2). [1]
Quitman depot in 1976. The Quitman Depot is a one-story, rectangular, wood frame structure, built around 1910. [3] Typical of railway stations in small towns, the depot floor plan included areas for freight, a passenger waiting room, and an office for the railroad agent.
Next to stage left are the loading docks which can accept two tractor-trailers simultaneously. Loading is done through two detached 12-foot-wide 10-foot-high (3.7 m × 3.0 m) overhead doors. Cargo then turns 90 degrees to the right to go to the stage.
A moving floor is a hydraulically-driven moving-floor conveyance system for moving bulk material or palletized products, which can be used in a warehouse, loading dock or semi-trailer. It automates and facilitates loading and unloading of palletized goods by eliminating the need for a forklift to enter the trailer. In a truck-based application ...
A dock plate is form of portable bridge used to both span the gap and adjust for elevation differences between a truck bed and a loading dock or warehouse floor. [1] Other devices used to achieve the same ends include dock boards, and electric and pneumatic dock levelers and lifts.
North American container ports. This is a list of ports of the United States, ranked by tonnage. [1] Ports in the United States handle a wide variety of goods that are critical to the global economy, including petroleum, grain, steel, automobiles, and containerized goods.
The sidewalks at Industry City double as loading docks. When the complex was known as Bush Terminal, it offered economies of scale for its tenants, so that even the smallest interests could use facilities normally only available to large, well-capitalized firms. [2]