What is a Loading Dock?
The majority of overland transportation occurs by truck. Even if a product takes a voyage first in an airplane, train or cargo ship, youre going to find most companies move product from a storage facility by truck into the store or warehouse. And Unloading a truck by hand would not be easy it would take a lot of workers to move individual boxes, and it would really be a pain if people were just picking things up out of the back of the truck and carrying it in through the front door. Thus, the invention of the loading dock. In a single-truck kind of facility, a loading dock generally consists of a large door for the truck to back up to and a roller rack to quickly and efficiently move things from the truck to the ground. Product is usually placed on pallets that can then be easily moved with a forklift or pneumatic cart.
