Truckee Tahoe Case Study on Landoll Drexel Trucks - Landoll - #1

What do you do when you are challenged with a need to transport, store and retrieve a wide range of size, shape and dimension loads? Add the fact that you require the versatility to unload trailers, travel up inclines, through narrow doorways, both indoor and outdoor and often on uneven surfaces. Top it all off with the fact that you have a need to create more space with little or no room to grow. Well, this is exactly the chal­lenge that Truckee Tahoe Lumber faced.

Truckee Tahoe Lumber in Tahoe City, California is an approximate 4.000-5.000 square foot facility that sits in the main street of town near the shore of Lake Tahoe. The business serves both commercial and residential markets and has grown substantially over the past years. Because land is a premium in this popular resort com­munity and the business was land locked on all sides, they needed a more efficient way to store their product in the existing facility. Handling long and awkward pieces of lumber and plywood through doorways had been done manually up to this point.

The company had considered the use of two different pieces of equipment: a sideloader to handle the loads through doorways and inside the warehouse, and a conventional truck to feed the sideloader working outside unloading trailers and flatbeds. This was a favorable alternative over the manual method but also costly to purchase and maintain two different machines.

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