Stacking ability of fork lift truck provides new dimension to storage and, as result, doubled, tripled, and quadrupled storage capacity of many warehouses; other industrial trucks include mobile cranes, straddle carriers, platform trucks, pallet trucks, and towing tractors; biggest handling problem facing industry today is mechanical loading and unloading of box cars; probably 90% of cased goods, primarily canned food and similar items, are manually unloaded off pallets and placed in rail cars; it takes about eight man-hours to manually load boxcar, whereas lift truck can do same job in 45 min; power steering has contributed more than anything else to ease of operation.
Changing industrial truck design concepts
AIIE -- Proc
Proceedings of the 16th AIIE Annual Conference ; 1965
1965
5 pages
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Englisch
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