Cranking landing gear on trailers is a day-to-day job for drivers, but it can cause severe pain as well as injuries if it is not done properly. It is seen that drivers that manually raise and lower trailer landinggears have increased potential for back and shoulder strain, and other muscular-skeletal injuries because the operation requires them to repetitively bend and exert considerable force. The injuries occurred due to manually operating the landing gear is 2.5% per year.
Now the question is – what would be the safest way to reduce injuries and strains, as well as safety and reducing workers compensation? The answer is simple! The best way to prevent the injuries and reduce workers compensation costs is by using air-powered landing gear automation.
On-Lift Landing Gear Automation 2000 and 2000HD
The use and maintenance of manual landing gears are very, very risky and troublesome, due to the reason to make the application easier latest technology has come up with air-powered landing gear automaton for the trucking industry. These landing gears have made for lifting and landing the trailers smooth, easy and hassle-free. It is capable of raising and lowering the fully loaded trailers in less than 10-seconds.
PATRIOT LIFT CO LLC offers air-powered landing gear automation On-lift 2000 and 2000HD that work great for reducing the workload time. The air-powered automatic landing gears for trailers (pneumatic) offered by Patriot Lift raises and lowers landing gear of a fully loaded trailer in less than 10 seconds.
The best thing is – the air supply comes directly from the existing emergency air brake line, so virtually no maintenance is required. Therefore, no additional power is needed to run the landing gears.
On-Lift Landing Gear Automation 2000 & 2000HD: Benefits
On-lift 2000 is a high capable landing gear automation used to lift 60,000 lb trailer. It can raise and lower the landing gear in less than 20 seconds. To raise and lower a fully loaded trailer, you need a finger tip force only.
On the other hand On-lift 2000HD is capable to lifting 100,000 lbs. It has 107 ft/lb. stall torque and 160 RPM free speed. These two air-powered landing gears can eliminate ergonomic injuries, like back and shoulder strain, muscular-skeletal injuries, and so forth. These landing gears eliminate the need of performing high torque manual task of up to 100 Ft/lbs. with a task that needs less than 1 lb.
In accordance with the data compiled by OSHA, the average settlement of a Worker’s Compensation for an injury because of repetitive cranking of landing gear is $35,000. In addition, the wages paid for the worker’s Paid Sick Leave; the cost for Disrupted Schedules as well as Impatient Customers the cost could exceed 50,000 per incident.
Patriot Lift Company is the worldleader in airpoweredlanding-gearautomation for the Transportation Industry. The Patriot Lift landing gear automation reduces the incidence of injury from 10 percent to 0. Thus, the On-lift landing gear automations are used widely for safety and reducing workers compensation.
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