. Ports and terminal facilities . e of the consignee. The manysmall packages for several different consignees may be con-solidated for easy delivery into one hand truck according to theproximity of the addresses of the consignees. The shed trucksare then parked two rows to one aisle. When the motor truckscall for the delivery they do not come up to the head house atonce, but are met by a starter who takes the order for which 116 PORTS AND TERMINALS consignees the motor truck is calling, and gives the driver acall number just as the theatres and hotels do for shed truck, loaded, i
. Ports and terminal facilities . e of the consignee. The manysmall packages for several different consignees may be con-solidated for easy delivery into one hand truck according to theproximity of the addresses of the consignees. The shed trucksare then parked two rows to one aisle. When the motor truckscall for the delivery they do not come up to the head house atonce, but are met by a starter who takes the order for which 116 PORTS AND TERMINALS consignees the motor truck is calling, and gives the driver acall number just as the theatres and hotels do for shed truck, loaded, is found on the pier or warehouse orfreight shed floor and brought down to the loading call number is then signalled by the electrical apparatusand with it at the same time the number of the space on theloading platform at which point the dray or motor truck is toback up. The dray backs into position opposite the load to bereceived. This is then hoisted onto the chassis of the motortruck and it may depart Fig. 33.—The handtrucks, loaded, brought to motor truck by an overheadtelpher are set on motor chass-is built to take the standardized container truckas one-half of a motor truck body. There are several things to be considered here. If the privateteamster system has been continued there would be a number ofhalf filled truck sections which might have to be consolidatedat a point just back of the loading platform at the the other hand, if there were a union system of deliverythere would be no necessity for the call number as each motortruck would come directly to the loading platform and departat once to the addresses given by the checker. The movablebody system for the motor truck chassis may be carried out undereither system and is most promising of successful development. CARTAGE 117 The question of protection from the weather while in the motortruck is simple. A ridge pole over the load arranged so thatit may be quickly dropped into
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