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Planning and Design Services


Loading Dock Design Services
Effective dock planning requires an eye to the future. Your docks must meet today's needs and tomorrow's. Changes in the trucking and material handling industry have dramatically affected dock design.

Some examples include:
      Just-In-Time manufacturing and warehousing
      High-Cube trailers
      Air-Ride suspensions
These developments have obsoleted previous "cookie-cutter" dock designs. Don't depend on yesterday's design to meet tomorrow's needs. Bring a dock expert into your planning and building process.

Rice Equipment, has been working with Architects, End Users and Contractors to stay on top of evolving trends to assure the best solutions for our customers. We have specific Loading Dock Design Presentations that are even "registered" courses of instruction on Dock Design for the AIA continuing education program.


Loading Dock Safety
There is a growing recognition that a safe dock depends on a lot of things, including up-to-date dock design, proper load-handling procedures, effective supervision, and trained people.

Rice Equipment, as a member of theSerco Distributot Network, has been working to improve dock and in-plant safety with our products for over 20 years.


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