Pallets Increase Dairy Vehicle Loads
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THE design and operation of newtype vehicles. with roller-conveyor floors was discussed last week at a meetMg of the Institute of Materials Handling in London. The speaker, Mr. W. E. D. Bell, is the managing director pf the Express Dairy Co., Ltd.
The new vehicles are for the delivery on pallets of bottled milk and other products, including eggs, cheese, milk powder and dry goods. They are loaded from the rear at ground level by fork trucks and unloaded by pedestrian-controlled fork trucks. Rollers on each side carry the pallet legs and stops keep them stable. Payloads have been increased.
Before pallets were introduced, vehicles carried 220 cases of bottled milk. They now carry 240 cases. They are also now one-man operated, whereas originally each had a driver and mate. Redundancy has been avoided by transferring drivers and mates to other work, often to that of fork-truck driving.