Decades ago when I was a teenager, I drove a forklift in the shipping dept of a local warehouse called Rev-A-Shelf. I knew when trucks were coming in and what loads they were getting. I would stage their freight before they even got there. When they bumped the dock and popped their brakes, I'd set the dock plate and then push their freight on 4, 6 or 8 pallets at a time depending on weight. Because I already knew the weights of the loaded pallets and staged them in groups, I could push them onto the truck and load a truck in a couple of minutes. It just took a little planning ahead.

@mkb5984

3 жыл бұрын

Typical ship dock work.

@mmans8191

3 жыл бұрын

That's called "bulldozing". I used to do that with the double skids 10, 11, or 12 pallets double stacked for each row depending on how big the trailer is (48, 53, or 57 feet long), then get the second row in and done within 5 minutes. That works better with the light skids like paper towels, chips...

@sentra2skyline141

3 жыл бұрын

Damaging pallets

@BlenderRookie

3 жыл бұрын

@@sentra2skyline141 Nope, we had smooth floors. The trailers didn't even have the knife edge grippy type floors that are common nowadays and the products we made were large and lightweight. The skids were not damaged.

This would increase profitability not only with shippers and receivers. It would drastically improve demurrage with trucking companies as well. I loose about 20 hours a week to shippers and receivers, waiting 2+ hours to load or unload. Costco is one of if not the best when it comes to their efficient shipping and receiving.

@luismolina1283

3 жыл бұрын

right on cowboy

I note that they never mention how much cubic space you lose within the truck bodies...

@jimc12

3 жыл бұрын

Unless your load is hand stacked/floor loaded, I don't see a decrease in the amount of palletized freight in the videos show. One thing that brings a question to my head is weight distribution. Not all palletized loads can be stacked side by side down the whole trailer, especially with heavy pallets. They will need to be staggered.

@cooljohn1977

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimc12 you is right.

@jimc12

3 жыл бұрын

@@cooljohn1977 18 years of operating a commercialvehicle, I've learned a few things and I always keep an open mind to keep on learning.

@alstead6898

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimc12 The height space needed for the truck's conveyor system is lost. Probably a foot or so throughout the whole trailer.

@jimc12

3 жыл бұрын

@@alstead6898 How do you know this?

So youre telling me 5 people lost their job and the other 5 works twice as hard?

@miguelcastaneda7236

3 жыл бұрын

yup say thank you unions....oh yea dues are going up and fines for not attending meetings are going up not that they listen to you

@juanshaftpatel7488

3 жыл бұрын

good

This is best for shuttle operations of product from factories into wearhouses...

P&G in Lima Ohio has 6 doors that are automated in the factory, I've seen this it's pretty cool you plug in the trailer go inside the factory push a button & the trailer loads automatically & there's conveyors inside the trailer's too.

Just another way to make the CEO bonuses bigger and the unemployment line longer. Great work guys.

@homersimpson2980

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@carlosets1

3 жыл бұрын

Every single year, humans are more and more useless. If you don't want to be useless, then learn programming, Robotics, artificial intelligence etc

@Dudeogre

3 жыл бұрын

@@carlosets1 Or do a job No robot can replace you !!!

@a1machinista1

3 жыл бұрын

@@katokagome4670 record them and send it to the top. Make as much noise as possible, be a fucking pain in their ass and dont give up. It will suck at first but eventually get through.

@a1machinista1

3 жыл бұрын

@@katokagome4670 😁

Try loading paper products that you have to shimmy back in forth to get them in and out. And you have to grab two pallets at once.

Proctor & Gamble in Lima Ohio has 6 loading dock bays that have conveyor systems inside the factory & inside the trailer's

If there's a powered track in the box, how does that change the dynamics of cleaning (specifically hosing, with water) out the box if you're going to change out what you're hauling?

What's the life expectancy of the weakest component and what is your annual maintenance service costs for the machine. Is the machine designed for mild damage from a loader in the loading areas and can still maintain tolerances? Proprietary software or mechanical parts that can only be purchased through the one company?

Somebody’s still gotta load the loading system

@John-kr7iz

3 жыл бұрын

thats probably automated now to, i remember seeing this before on youtube a few years ago a UK company was using this

So basically the trailer has to be a walking floor to work correctly. Everybody has walking floor trailers these days....🤣🤣🤣

@davidmitchell5638

3 жыл бұрын

That's what I thought!

@Lukelins1

3 жыл бұрын

You want to hear a truck driver cry tell him he can put less weight on the truck.

@Mira_linn

3 жыл бұрын

@@Lukelins1 if you notice what kind of goods are shown in the video it is heavy liquids so even if you loose some hight it does not matter as space ain't the limiting factor, its anyways mostly a thing for internal transportation within a distribution chain, and hey no lumper fees and less dead time waiting to be loaded

@lakesnake2005

3 жыл бұрын

@David Salas Don't talk shit about drivers when you have clothes on your back and food in your belly and a warm bed to sleep in you fuzzy muppet. You can't put that shit on your little precious ebike or in your Prius.

@GymKnopf96

20 күн бұрын

@@Mira_linnyes this ATL is mostly for the Intralogistics

Does this work with reefer trucks? How is securememt of the load performed?

Being a 38 year retired OTR driver/owner operator I see only one flaw with this system. While it can load and unload product in three minutes, it doesn’t allow saving time for checking the unloaded product against the bill of lading for accurate count situations. Otherwise I find this a great invention...that is if every company and owner operator can afford to install the same system inside their trailers!

@sherrielsimmons8070

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. What about inspecting the trailer for food safety concerns? Would a system like this be an issue with SQF certification?

I assume the consignees must have the same capabilities to unload. Or can forklifts be driven in?

How much Weight loss in freight is involved with the belt roller group in the truck 2 What are the maintenance cost for equipment in truck 3 how much room is lost in cubic feet 4 with the system installed can the truck still be loaded via forklift?

They have this system at a place i go to. All well and good until the trailer the loading system or the unload system goes faulty. They use it to move from production to distribution Centre about one mile away..

@mkb5984

3 жыл бұрын

Yup! And it's bound to go down.. at least twice weekly.

I see the ease of loading the trailer because it has rollers that mate with the warehouse rollers. How do you unload it if there aren't rollers at the destination.

@sandpast

2 жыл бұрын

Good point! 😆😆

Who the hell takes half hour to load a trailer!?! Given a good forklift and the pallets being ready, it's quick.... We load / unload no screwing around pretty quick, and fast doesn't mean damage.

@garrettlone7995

3 жыл бұрын

Coming from an industrial engineer in automotive... mixed freight in a milk-run loop with multiple dunnage types can take every bit of that half hour

@goldenshots1972

3 жыл бұрын

I got it down from scanning each pallet and fully loaded truck in 18 minutes. 26 pallets.

What happens if there's a flood or the sprinklers go off? Does this thing get destroyed or is it all waterproof?

OK that is awesome ! BUT the conveyor in a trailer ? how is that gonna work ? My company is loading trailers from so many different companys and stores that it would be impossible to integrate it.

That’s all good for pantec trucks. But with Tautliner trucks, you still have to tie down loads.

So you retrofit a trailer to work with this system and then can it still be used traditionally or will a pallet jack mess up the the system if it tries to drive in the trailer?

@jajajaja2624

3 жыл бұрын

One trucker on youtube said he was loaded by one but said can't go inside and film it .

@mkb5984

3 жыл бұрын

Great question!

I have seen one of these in Germany back in 1994 at a Leitz warehouse.

@25mfd

3 жыл бұрын

really????? you saw this that long ago and yet it is still a "new" idea right now today... i wonder why??????... looks to be a very plausible system

@car9167

3 жыл бұрын

@@25mfd Not sure what you're trying to say. Are you disagreeing/agreeing with me!? Idea is good and it's being used for a long time

@25mfd

3 жыл бұрын

@@car9167 sorry bout that (sometimes the context when writing gets lost)... i'm whole heartedly agreeing with you.. it is a very good idea but hasn't really caught on here in the U.S.... i'm sure some places in the U.S. have it but it sure doesn't seem like it's the norm

@car9167

3 жыл бұрын

@@25mfd We were a small company in Romania buying stationary from them and we visited their facilities. In that warehouse they were loading for big companies and small like ours. For the big companies they were loading a truck in few minutes, their whole system was computerized. The warehouse was 8-10 stories tall and they had automated pallet pullers which were taking full pallets from the rack which was up to the ceiling and putting them on a roller track to be loaded into the truck. Was fully automated. As soon as an order was submitted the merchandise was pulled to the track ready to be loaded. For small companies like ours they had people going with carts and filling the basket and manually out the merchandise on a pallet, mixed items. The carts had a display which isle/slot to go next, what UPC code to pick and how many, all were communicating wireless. This was 1994.

@25mfd

3 жыл бұрын

@@car9167 WOW... i read your comment and everything you wrote says to me the year 2021 and yet what you described happened in 1994... WOW... the U.S. really lags FAR behind our european counterparts in some areas... this is one of those areas

This might be wonderful in a couple of platforms but overall I can't see it working or being good for 95% of the trucking that I know of!

Thanks very much

They are taking ours jobs -South park Episodes

I use to be able to do it in 15 minutes double stacked.

Wherever that truck goes to has to have the same warehouse set up too? I don't think so. And when an employee goes into the trailer and falls on his ass cause of the roller wheels on the floor, LAWSUITS

Took 4 hours to load me at Niagara in Chester va. They were using robots.

@sawboneiomc8809

3 жыл бұрын

But they paid no benefits to the loaders.

Awesome

Impressive

And just how do you work in axle weights with your system? What if the load has to go on single-double-single? What then??

@skylinevq35

3 жыл бұрын

They’re going to be like 🤔 that’s a good question.

@jonasstahl9826

3 жыл бұрын

Probably not need, themes lile they transport from a factory to warehouse. So they have always full trucks with the same weight.

What about rollers like the c130 uses? Could that work in a truck?

@TriptoCo

3 жыл бұрын

That is actually such a thing. I have been in air and ocean freight for 20+ years. We had trailers with them specifically for PMC's/cookie sheets. The rollers in the trailer could retract when loaded or not needed too.

@luke6575

3 жыл бұрын

@@TriptoCo I honestly thought every trailer would have them. By the time the driver opens the side curtains, it would just be as easy opening the rear doors and pushing the pallet on the rollers to the back door to get it unloaded by a forklift. Depending what loads they are carrying of course and also the pallets need to be in delivery order.

@lakesnake2005

3 жыл бұрын

Hauled a retractable roller bed trailer for Kittyhawk (Kalitta Air) in air freight for several years. Hauled cookie sheets and igloos. Hauled regular cargo on the side including Production and Staging. Beats the shit outta dry van freight. DON'T EVER make an airplane wait on you and they will love you.

@TriptoCo

3 жыл бұрын

@@lakesnake2005 Dude. You're bringing back some memories. I used to book many tons on a nightly basis with CK in the 90's and early 2000's when they were still doing their nightly routes. Since they collapsed and became Kallita charters only, I have booked dozens of charters with them. Always out of EWR (their home base) to FAI and HNL. Worth every penny for my company and our customers. Those 9ld 747-400's as still some serious bad boys. Do you know the story about who and how they started? It was Connie Kalitta the drag racing legend that started then. Hence the CK name for us old time 3pl Air shippers.

Fork truck breaks down, go get another one. Autoloader breaks down.......

@mkb5984

Жыл бұрын

......... you're f*&$@d! Unless you have techs on hand that can service/repair it.

👍👍

Basically 5 guys lost their job

@godbluffvdgg

3 жыл бұрын

But, 10 guys got work fabricating, installing and maintaining. If you lose your job to a robot or an immigrant; you need to examine your life choices.

Or if your whse has a buch of lazy loaders it will take 4 to 5 hrs to load a truck

Aint cheap.

How would this work in the LTL world?

wow 10 trucks to 5 trucks bet they save shit load of cash now that 5 drivers plus loading/unloading crews out of work WTG sad times.. so much for a workman

Pepsi has been doing this for over 20 years

Does it work with loading type with non palletize handling?

@xsardas1999

3 жыл бұрын

Probably it is just giant moving floor. If it can fit it can carry it.

Cool! there are 5 jobs now were there were 10, awesome.... 5 people lost there job 👍

@25mfd

3 жыл бұрын

that's what happens with progress sometimes

@psehunter3525

3 жыл бұрын

@@25mfd that’s always the answer the five guys who kept there job say ! Everyone else say, this has been put in 1000 warehouses so 5000 people have had their lives turned upside down! Aww screw them I guess right. It’s not you

@25mfd

3 жыл бұрын

@@psehunter3525 and sadly that is the reality... history is littered with the types of situations you just mentioned... look at the rail industry over the past years as a perfect example... many railroad brakemen, telegraphers, flagmen, crossing signalmen and others lost their jobs because of automation or improvements in automation... and it still hasn't stopped, right now there are REMOTE CONTROLLED LOCOMOTIVES... the engineer as of this writing is one the verge of losing his job (in SOME instances)... even in some mcdonalds they now have auto ordering kiosks which have eliminated the lowly cashier... same in places like walmart with the auto checkout with a bank of 10 auto checkout lanes and ONE cashier overseeing it all... it sucks but it's reality

@edschultheis9537

3 жыл бұрын

​@@25mfd McDonald's (and some similar stores) have ordering kiosks which have eliminated the cashier in some stores largely because of pressure from unions to force a higher minimum wage (especially the $15/hour minimum wage). This is and was very predictable. No one should be surprised at this. More of this will predictably happen if these businesses are forced into paying a higher wage than what the particular work skill is worth in a free market. Franchise restaurant owners have to run a tight ship just to stay in business and make a reasonable profit. If they can't make a profit, they'll find a way to reduce costs while maintaining the same level of service. If they can't do that, then they will close their business. They aren't running a non-profit charity. They are in business to get a reasonable return on their large investment. If they can't do that, they'll take their money and invest it elsewhere. When unions and government force artificially high wages (higher than what the free market arrives at), then this sort of adjustment will ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS happen. Over the long term, this impacts the lowest-skill workers the most. Their job is often eliminated and the restaurant owner will only hire higher-skilled worker in the future which do a level of work that is commensurate with the higher wage that they are forced to pay. And for the lowest skilled workers, more and more of the "bottom rungs" of the employment ladder are eliminated and they find it harder and harder to get a start in gainful employment.

@mkb5984

Жыл бұрын

@@edschultheis9537 ... If rent continues to increase, so will the need for higher wages.

Every system has a default. What if the undercarriage frame is damaged and needs to he replaced? These trailers are expensive, because their unique. It's cool though. You still have to set the product up for delivery. Not a really good system.

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Fuck No I love driving my stand up Raymond

I'm wondering about that 50% product damage. Seems like a few UAs would have cleared up that problem.

@gazebodp

3 жыл бұрын

I had to listen back, 15% product damage.

@Kitchfox

3 жыл бұрын

@@gazebodp yeah your right. But even 15%.... I think in 3 years of running the hell out of a forklift I only stabbed one case of product.

0:38 DEJA VU

Вот это 21 век

***Why would I have kids if there will be no jobs for them. Automated truck+automated loading=unemployed human***

I honestly don't see the benefit in this thing unless you have these packages on pallets that can drive themselves to their storage area after they get unloaded. Cus what's the point in this thing if u still need forklifters to move the pallets around the warehouse after this thing unloads them. And what's the point of it loading a trailer when u need forklifters to assemble all those pallets on top of this thing

There ya go another way to cut jobs and how do you get the trailer load so it will scale and not dump the load inside Oh and what happens if the load shifts going do the road and its not lying against the wall how your F mech going to unload now. We need to create jobs not take them away

So they fired 5 truck drivers?

No human can load a truck in 3 minutes...even with a double pallet jack!!!!!!!!!!....I might can😌😌😌😌

@mkb5984

3 жыл бұрын

Handle it, Daddy!

Automatic loading and unloading requires 2 systems. Number 1. Foreman. Number 2. SACK 10 workers to make a profit.

Pretty soon the robot will wipe my ass. I'll stick to the old fashion way and try to keep people employed and help their families survive.

@godbluffvdgg

3 жыл бұрын

Now see, as an old guy - That ass wiping Robot is something I can endorse...:)...This "invention" is a boondoggle.

Lol...what happens when its -20 in the box. Who gonna chip the ice from under the rollers

wearing shorts and no safety gear while operating forklifts ???

Somebody just trying to sell this system

Watching automatic guide vehicles work on daily basis. World isn't ready for operator less equipment. We had on went rouge and almost crashed into the factory line about month ago. Explain that to OSHA

Looks like it takes too much space.

They might load the trailer in 3 minutes. How long does it take to load the product on the conveyor ? Im not impressed.

@edschultheis9537

3 жыл бұрын

This could make a huge difference. If you're not impressed, then you're not thinking it through very thoroughly. The bottleneck in the conventional system is that loading dock space for trucks is limited and at a premium. Also, the downtime when a truck is in a loading dock [or waiting in line for space at a loading dock] is completely lost time for the truck driver and the owner of the truck fleet. The truck driver still has to be paid even though he isn't really doing productive work when the truck is waiting to be loaded. The truck overhead expenses still have to be paid even though the truck isn't making any money when it isn't rolling on the highways. With the automated system, the large truck-size conveyor pallets can be loaded and secured at any time, especially when no truck is at the loading dock. With multiple truck-size conveyor pallets within a warehouse, multiple shipments could be arranged at the same time at all hours of the day and night. Then if 5 or 10 trucks show up within an hour or two, they could all be loaded and on their way to the destination within minutes of showing up at the loading dock. This could be a huge savings due to improved efficiency, and the bottleneck of the loading dock is eliminated. Ed Schultheis, PE Mechanical design & manufacturing engineer consultant for 35 years Schultek Engineering & Technology, Inc. schultek.com

@truckerbug4507

3 жыл бұрын

@@edschultheis9537 picture this. The conveyor is loaded and ready to be put on a trailer. A truck backs a trailer in the door. The product is loaded on trailer within the 3 minutes as stated. That truck pulls out of the door. Another truck backs in the door. There is no product on the conveyor because it was just loaded on the other trailer. The time it takes to load the conveyor back with product could be used to load the product directly on the trailer. The only benefit that I see is for the first trailer loaded.

@edschultheis9537

3 жыл бұрын

@@truckerbug4507 Who said that you would only have one trailer-sized pallet ready for each conveyor? Several trailer-sized pallets could be loaded and ready in the warehouse. Once the truck pulls up to the loading dock, just select the load that goes with that truck and push it into the trailer. Multiple trucks could be loaded quickly, one after another, using this method and only one loading dock. They don't have to take up additional space because all that stuff is already being stored somewhere in the warehouse. Just rearrange the space. This is really about the same concept as using standardized shipping containers to load an ocean-going ship. It revolutionized the shipping industry. i2.wp.com/www.globaltrademag.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/shippers-1.jpg?fit=757%2C393&ssl=1

@edschultheis9537

3 жыл бұрын

​@Brian Byley I am a mechanical design engineer and manufacturing consultant with 35 years of engineering experience. I am also a licensed professional mechanical engineer in the state of California. I have been doing engineering consulting work for over 20 years. I have a master's degree and bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, specializing in machine design. In addition, I grew up on our family farm in eastern Washington state. I started operating, maintaining, repairing and building farm equipment from about age 10. By 14 years old, I was driving large combine harvesters, tractors and trucks on the steep rolling hills of the Palouse region of WA state. c8.alamy.com/comp/FC50XC/combines-harvesting-wheat-in-the-palouse-region-of-washington-FC50XC.jpg As I am self-employed as an engineering consultant, I am also the CEO of my company, Schultek Engineering & Technology, Inc. So I do know one or two things about machinery.... inventing it, designing it, operating it, manufacturing it, assembling it, trouble-shooting it, repairing it and optimizing it. Ed Schultheis, P.E. Schultek Engineering & Technology, Inc. schultek.com

Who’s gonna put air bags in a trailer to secure the load? That only works for people with those trailers too. Not gonna work at an ltl company (high and tight. Stop trying to put people out of work!!!!!!!!!!

Well, here's what I see as cons to this. There's added weight to the trailer, which affects payload limits. If the system in the trailer goes down, trailer becomes out of service. If the system in the warehouse goes down, it's now in the way of a forklift, so redundant systems or standard loading docks are still needed. And the most important concern, it creates unemployment.

There goes Ai and the working people goes homeless..great future coming our way !! “Self driving truck, self flying planes and now this ... lol

@VS-if1cm

3 жыл бұрын

In the way of time line and speed the “official” technologies progress, soon the monitory system will collapse, the question is what would the Big brother government do,probably they will make people depended on it and you know this is gonna be bad.

@mkb5984

Жыл бұрын

Trust me, less than 10% of businesses will purchase this 💩..

Good job putting 1000s of people out of job. 👍

@chrisdawson3175

3 жыл бұрын

Time to get with the future, robots will take over most markets and most jobs.. the only human jobs will be those that repair and program the robots. might want to learn that. 1000s of jobs dont matter, what matters is efficiency and humans are not at all efficient.

@anthonyyi6312

3 жыл бұрын

@@chrisdawson3175 until your deemed worthless then you’ll be regretting this comment.

@aidenallen912

3 жыл бұрын

The people who load the truck now have to load the truck loader.

@truckerbug4507

3 жыл бұрын

Nobody will lose their job. Someone still has to load the product on the line. If anything it created jobs. Someone has to produce the components for that system. Someone has to build, sell and install the system also. Im not a fan of it either but thats how it is nowadays.

@edschultheis9537

3 жыл бұрын

@@aidenallen912 But they can load the truck loader at any time... No need for a truck to be in the loading dock. It greatly improves the efficiency of those doing the loading and it improves the quality of the entire shipment. Rather than rushing to fill a truck as soon as it arrives at the loading dock, the loaders can take more care to do it well and not feel rushed to get a truck on its way.

3 minutes to load/unload but still 3-9 hours waiting to load/unload.

And the unemployment get higher

My question is how can i buy some shares in the company?

So then we have to buy new trailers. Too money

System how too fired people frow work

Sysco or U.S foods would not be able to use this. As the people who stack those pallets like to put gallons of bbq sauce on the bottom that gets warm, plastic warps and then the pallet falls over in the truck. This is one example. Its ALWAYS something with them. Also, if you are hired to drive a truck LEARN TO FUCKING use a forklift. Im so tired of having to do truck drivers jobs and mine. Your job is to deliver, get your ass on the lift and move YOUR DELIVERY.

Putting people out of work.

@mkb5984

3 жыл бұрын

.....some people need to be put out of work. They don't appreciate the jobs they have- the fact they've worked through a pandemic, then want to show up and do just under the bare minimum...GTF OFF MY DOCK!!!!👉🏽👉🏽👉🏽 That felt good. I can't say that at work..!

implement this for distributing the COVID vaccine

Someone somewhere is looking for a job..,

...yeah...more less employees...unbelievable...😣

Bye bye jobs

Maybe I am not in a rush maybe I would like to sleep 2 to 3 hours while u unload reload me...stupid idea the logistics company will just cut your hours or make you do more runs good for the company not good for the driver

Dont u guys have nothing else to do besides find a way of getting rid of workers..because it shore looks like it.

I see too many problems with this.

Another bit of technology putting humans out of a job!!! 😢😢😢😢

More importantly... what happens to the people that this system may put out of work? When work force is cut.Sometimes MAN is too clever for his own good.

Who is going to use the product being moved if no one has a job?

Funny how slip robotics thinks it takes an hour and a half to load a truck. Takes me 40 minutes to load 80 floor loaded drums. What half assing warehouses do they have time for that pathetic load time.

I have a better system...

Stupid idea...There are men and women in this world that are perfect warehouse people...They're good at their job and they enjoy being part of the shipping system... Everything is working just fine...Sell it to Amazon, they're anti human enough...