According to OSHA - your company is responsible for restraining the trucks that dock at your facility. Can your company afford this? 

Your company's personnel and profits are exposed to risk every day, multiplied by each truck your company receives - and multiplied again by each time a truck is entered and exited by your personnel.

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New Lower Rear Impact Guards On Trailers A Huge Concern For Owners of Impact Style Truck Restraints.

Ever drive down the road and see a semi-trailer's rear impact guard bent into an upside-down "V" and wonder what caused it?  The answer, more often than not, is an impact style truck restraint.   Impact style truck restraints require that the semi-trailers' rear impact guard, which is also used to restrain the semi-trailer, be "impacted" into the restraint housing with sufficient force as to drive the restraint housing down for positioning of the restraining device.  The new Federal regulations concerning the height, configuration, and certification of new rear impact guards raises red flags that should alarm anyone who owns, or is considering the purchase of, impact style truck restraints.

This finding raises such issues as:

A 22" maximum rear impact guard height, off of grade, means that the impact style truck restraint will have to be "forced" down even lower.

Does your company have a yard jockey?   Yard jockeys can make a low rear impact guard even lower when they tilt up a trailer for parking in a truck dock.  In some cases, when tilting, the impact truck restraint may bottom out and cause the bending up of the trailer's rear impact guard.

Employee safety and truck restraint effectiveness can be compromised due to weakened rear impact guards which, upon normal docking of the truck, are damaged by an improperly functioning impact style truck restraint.

Impact VS. Non-Impact

Prior to the new Federal regulations, non-impact style truck restraints have been safely and effectively restraining semi-trailers for years.  Since 1987, the owners of Kelley's Star model, non-impact style truck restraints have enjoyed lower maintenance costs and increased safety at their truck docks without the concern of causing damage to semi-trailers' rear impact guards.  Furthermore, Kelley guarantees, in writing, that their truck restraints, in normal use, will not damage a rear impact guard - or Kelley will pay to repair or replace the truck's rear impact guard.

Conclusion:  Impact style truck restraints are a potential source of damage to rear impact guards and they have not evolved with the industry's movement to non-impact style truck restraining equipment. Commercial Shelving's Trailer/Truck Restraints will help to save your company from damage and injury caused from dock loading accidents.