Promoting equal employment opportunity is important in all sectors, so it the trucking industry. Unlike manual cranking, the air-powered lift system helps establishing equal employment opportunities in the trucking industry, where any driver, male or female, or even aged drivers can work.
This not only increases productivity but also improves driver retention. On-Lift air-powered landing gear automations On-lift 2000 and 2000HD are two most effective patented automatic landing gears for trucks on the market.
Now the question is how much is it responsible for trailer productivity improvement? Let’s see what statistics says about it. The potential revenue increases by around $100,000 each year, i.e. per the trailer, and the savings rise to $3,600 every year.
You will surely see the skyrocketing rise in productivity, along with the less cranking time and effort. When you compare it with the manual cranking that takes about fifteen minutes, the air-powered automatic landing gears On-lift 2000 and 2000HD takes less than 10 seconds.
Pros of Using Air-Powered Landing Gear Automation
You will get many different benefits using on-lift air-powered landing gear automations On-lift 2000 and 2000HD, such as: fleet benefits, driver recruiting and retention, landing gear safety improvement, management and operations, gains in productivity. You will be able to reduce the workers compensation and other insurance costs significantly. Virtually, eliminating strains and muscular skeletal injuries that are common in truck drivers by repetitive cranking of landing gear with forces up to 100 lbs.
Air-powered landing gear automation is the blessing for the trucking industry in the US. On-Lift’s air-powered landing gear for freight transportation has turned to be an end-to-end solution to meet the primary requirements, such as reduces accidents, drives the hiring process, reduce the compensation cost and medical insurance, and good for landing gear safety improvement.
Reduction in equipment damage is important, and that is possible when you use air-powered landing gear. This automated system eliminates the damage of the Landing gear and the best thing is – it brings on a significant reduction in fifth wheel damage and other trailer components.
What OSHA Says About Patriot Lift?
It goes without saying that Patriot Lift Company is the world leader in air powered landing-gear automation for the transportation industry. In the year 2017, OSHA recognized the air-powered landing gear automation technology as one of the significant improvements for reducing injuries over manually operating the landing gear.
In accordance with the data compiled by OSHA, the average settlement of a Worker’s Compensation for driver’s injury for the repetitive cranking of manual landing gear is about $75,000, and the wages paid for the Worker’s Paid Sick Leave, the cost of Workers’ Training for the purpose of driver replacement, Impatient customers, and due to Disrupted Schedules, the cost could exceed not less than $100,000 per incident.
If you are in the trucking industry then you must know that the incidence of drivers injured because of manually operating the landing gear is 2.5 percent per year and the percentage increases four-fold to 10 percent for drivers ages fifty or older, and female truck drivers. The good news is – The Patriot Lift air-powered landing gear automation can reduce the incidence of driver injury from up to ten percent down to zero.
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