A dual hinged, diamond-steel plate structured and arranged to swing to cover the gap between a truck or trailer's floor and its lift-gate thereby eliminating the gap in between the trailer floor and lift gate to make loading and unloading the truck trailer a much easier and smoother operation.

A mountable elevator system includes one or more horizontal bearing frames and one or more vertical frames, each vertical frame being connected to one of the horizontal bearing frames. One or more step stringers extend between the one or more horizontal bearing frames and the one or more vertical frames. A multi-piece platform includes multiple step pieces mounted on the one or more step stringers. The cabling is configured to extend and retract the multi-piece platform. One or more step support locking structures can be configured to secure a top step piece of the multi-piece platform, wherein the multiple step pieces of the multi-piece platform separate into multiple vertical levels as the multi-piece platform extends. The multi-piece platform is configured to raise and lower relative to an entry door of a vehicle.

A load-lifting device for mounting on a vehicle, including a platform for receiving a load which can be brought from a lowered into a raised working position, and back again, as well as a linking lever, a support element, a drive element and a connection element. The linking lever that is pivotally mounted on the platform is linked to the vehicle at a linking end region. The support element attached to the platform includes a foot end which braces the ground. The drive element brings the support element from a resting state associated with the resting position of the platform, into a working state in which the foot end is braced on the ground and the platform is raised into the working position. The connection element functions to control the rotational position of the linking lever and the pivot position of the platform according to the support element.

A vehicle step device includes: a movable step that is provided in a door opening of a vehicle; and a drive controller that drives the movable step so that the movable step operates in deployment and storage directions. The drive controller includes a sidewalk detection unit that detects a sidewalk provided in parallel with a traveling road surface of the vehicle, a separation distance detecting unit that detects a separation distance between a side edge portion of the vehicle in which the movable step is stored and the sidewalk, and a deployment amount setting unit that sets a deployment amount of the movable step extending in a width direction of the traveling road surface from the side edge portion of the vehicle based on the separation distance. The deployment amount setting unit sets a deployment amount of the movable step to be larger as the separation distance increases.

A drop deck trailer is provided with a deck that has the ability to raise and lower to conveniently load and unload goods and materials on the deck. A pneumatic system can raise and lower the deck and also serve as a suspension system for the trailer to dampen the relative movement between a frame and the deck. In addition, some embodiments of the trailer have a deck with a movable carriage that can move along the deck to automatically load a vehicle such as a golf cart. The carriage has rollers that secure the front wheels of a vehicle, and the carriage moves along the decks to pull the vehicle onto the deck. Moreover, various embodiments of a trailer frame can selectively connect to different decks to allow each deck to be specialized for particular goods and materials.

A lift platform assembly coupled to a floor and capable of transitioning a lift platform between a stow position and a ground level position. The lift platform assembly has one or more arms coupling the lift platform to the floor, a gate mount coupled to the lift platform at an outboard end, a retention gate coupled to the gate mount at a first terminus, and a mount pivot axis defined through the gate mount and parallel to a lift platform plane. The retention gate pivots about the mount pivot axis as the lift platform assembly transitions from the ground level position to the stow position.

A truck bed cargo lift and loader is provided consisting of a pivotable and extendable platform or tray whose side supports are connected to linkage bars attached to carriers located in proximity to each base beam on the side of the lift and loader towards the open end of the truck bed, and which carriers travel along a worm gear jack screw with opposing threads installed in the cross member connecting the side base beams, such that when the jack screw rotates upon being driven by an electric motor or by a manually operated hand crank connected to a gearbox attached to the jack screw, the carriers travel towards and away from each other depending on the direction of rotation of the jack screw thereby raising and lowering the linkage bars with their platform or tray.

A dual hinged, diamond-steel plate structured and arranged to swing to cover the gap between a truck or trailer's floor and its lift-gate thereby eliminating the gap in between the trailer floor and lift gate to make loading and unloading the truck trailer a much easier and smoother operation.

A liftgate in accordance with the present disclosure includes a lift mechanism and a moveable load platform. The load platform includes a proximal deck section, a distal deck section, and a center deck section positioned between the proximal deck section and the distal deck section. The load platform is selectively vertically movable between a lowered position and a raised position. The proximal deck section, center deck section, and distal deck section are pivotally coupled to one another such that the load platform is selectively moveable between an extended-operational position, wherein all of the deck sections are located substantially coplanar with one another for supporting cargo, and a retracted-stored position wherein the deck sections are folded with respect to one another and are located substantially parallel and adjacent to one another.

A loading/unloading device for delivering an item(s) to be delivered. The loading/unloading device includes an outer nested track; an inner nested track nested within the outer nested track; a curved generally U-shaped guide track nested within the inner nested track; and a movable trolley accommodated and movable along the curved generally U-shaped guide track. A drive motor being is supported by a first end of the curved generally U-shaped guide track for conveying the movable trolley back and forth along the curved generally U-shaped guide track for loading and unloading the item(s) to be delivered. A delivery vehicle, including at least one loading/unloading device for delivering the item(s) to be delivered, is also disclosed.