Wheel Chocks
Wheel Chocks
A wheel chock is the cheapest thing on a loading dock and the one that most often is not there. S&L lists six models, SL-WC-01 to SL-WC-06, across…
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Industry Application
Dock face safety gear for high-turn distribution centres
A distribution dock turns trailers faster than any other part of the building, and every turn is a chance for a trailer to move while a fork truck is inside it.
Pain Points
What Goes Wrong In Warehousing and Distribution
Trailer creep during loading
Covered by the equipment listed below.
Height mismatch between dock and trailer bed
Covered by the equipment listed below.
Fork truck impact on dock doors and racking legs
Covered by the equipment listed below.
Trailer tipping when a tractor uncouples
Covered by the equipment listed below.
Recommended Equipment
The S&L Lines Specified For This Environment
Four lines that between them stop the trailer moving, bridge the gap to it and keep fork trucks off the building. Ordered together they cover a bay end to end.
Dock Boards
Aluminium Dock Boards
An aluminium dock board bridges the gap and the height difference between a dock edge and a trailer bed. The S&L TAS series publishes 21 models…
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Bollards
Steel Safety Bollards
A steel safety bollard is a length of heavy wall pipe on a bolt-down base plate, set where a fork truck would otherwise reach something expensive.…
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Trailer Jacks
SL-TJ-02 Wheeled Trailer Stabilising Jack
SL-TJ-02 doubles the static rating of the carried jack and adds a published lifting capacity. It rolls out to the trailer on 10 inch semi-pneumatic…
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How To Specify
From Site Walk To Purchase Order
- Walk the site and list every position where traffic, a gap or a drum is handled today
- Match each position to a published S&L model code from the product pages
- Check the constraints that cannot be changed later: fork pocket centres, headroom, service range, yard surface
- Send the code list with quantities and the destination port
- Confirm anything marked TBC before the order is placed
Questions
Warehousing and Distribution Supply Questions
Which S&L products are specified most often in warehousing and distribution?
Wheel Chocks, Aluminium Dock Boards, Steel Safety Bollards, SL-TJ-02 Wheeled Trailer Stabilising Jack.
Can these be quoted as one package?
Yes. Give the model codes and quantities and they are quoted together and consolidated into one shipment.
What is the main risk this equipment addresses here?
Trailer creep during loading.
Does S&L publish load ratings for all of these?
For most lines, yes. Where a rating is not published — steel dock boards and wheel chocks — the product page says so and the figure is confirmed at quotation.
Specify For Warehousing and Distribution
Send the list of positions you need to cover and we will come back with model codes, quantities and a quotation against them.