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elers—has greatly improved safety,
according to Nicholas. For instance,
acrylic tube lights bracket the top
corners on the inside of each dock
opening; these lights turn green when
the trailer is locked to indicate that
it’s safe for forklift operators to enter.
“It’s very plain when the dock
hook is not engaged and when the
truck is not safe [for forklift entry],”
said Nicholas.
As another safeguard, the system
is set up to prevent the leveler from
being activated until the dock hook
is fully engaged. “That’s a big advan-
tage for us safety-wise,” Nicholas
explained. With the old system, employ-
ees might be tempted to skip putting
wheel chocks out. “It’s a Friday, they
want to go home, it’s the last truck of the
day. They’re like, ‘Oh, I’m only putting
four pallets on it. I heard him [the truck
driver] put his air brake on,’” he said. The
new system “just short-circuits that whole
thing completely.”
The new dock levelers are lacking one
thing, though: “You don’t run into the
big hump that we used to. It’s a smoother
transition,” said Nicholas. That’s “eas-
ier on the product loads, easier on the
shrink-wrap, and easier on the driver.”
There were money-saving benefits as
well.
“I don’t know how many pairs of
wheel chocks we lost [at the old facility],”
Nicholas said. Either [truck operators]
would drive over them—they’d forget to
take them out and just drive away—or
they’d just take them. We would try to
chain them up to the wall, [but] we were
buying wheel chocks every three months,
it seemed like.” With the restraints, he
says, “Wheel chocks are a thing of the
past.”
On top of that, maintenance costs have
dropped. Citrus Systems signed a main-
tenance contract, so the equipment gets
regular lubrication and care, but nothing
has had to be repaired or replaced in the
nearly three years it’s been in use. That’s a
big contrast from the older-style levelers;
the bumpy transition from dock to truck
meant someone was coming in about
every six months to re-weld pit frames
and end plates that had been loosened,
according to Nicholas. “It was a constant
issue at the old place.”
And there’s a side benefit as well. That
annoying “ba-bump, ba-bunk” sound? It,
too, is a thing of the past.
