Despite being often touted by their backers as having “enormous potential” self-loading container road trailers (usually called “sidelifters”) have remained stubbornly outisde the mainstream of container handling and transport. Sidelifters have been around for several decades and were originally developed for specific conditions in two unconnected markets, New Zealand and Sweden.
The empty container would be dropped off at a factory or farm, a full one collected for the port and the grounded unit then filled directly from the production line, thus dispensing with the need for large on-site warehousing and dedicated dock-loading stalls....
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