Logistics: Choosing The Right Loading Bay

MANY FACILITY supervisors look at their warehouses not from the outside, but from the inside. Let’s face it, you get to work, go inside the warehouse and spend the rest of the day inside taking care of business.

Who is responsible for going outside and doing an actual equipment survey? Have you looked under your dock levelers, at your dock seals, checked the quality of your dock bumpers and wheel chocks or truck restraints (dock locks)? If you are responsible for ‘safety’, ‘efficiency’, ‘productivity’ and ‘compliance’ now is the time. Small repairs left unchecked can lead to huge expenses and sometimes –employee injuries.

The type of goods your logistic centre handles directly influences the types of vehicle and loading equipment you use, and, in turn, the types of distribution vehicle, the type of goods and the processes you use will determine the type of loading bay you should have. Here, we discuss a few considerations you should take into account.

What type of vehicle do you need to accommodate?