A trailer for carrying unit load devices (ULDs), including unloaded and/or loaded containers and pallets, or other cargo; the trailer designed to be towed on surface streets and highways by conventional motorized truck-tractor units. The trailers are equipped with adjustable decks for supporting ULDs in stacked configuration on the trailer. Using a lowered well portion permits selected ULD stacks to not exceed legal trailer height limits so that additional permitting is not required.

An adjustable transportation system designed to be positioned on a trailer or on a vehicle that includes a hammock-like structure, a frame, adjustable legs, and jacking means. The hammock-like structure is attached to the frame, as are the adjustable legs. The bottoms of said adjustable legs are equipped with jacking means.

A height adjustable vehicle transport trailer includes a frame having a front end, a back end, and a pair of sides, a draw bar slidably affixed to the front end, a deck affixed to the frame, a pair of brackets each affixed to one pair of sides, each pair of brackets having a swing arm, configured with a first end rotationally hingedly affixed the frame and a second end removeably pinned therein said one of the brackets, a wheel rotationally affixed to an axel, the axel affixed to said swing arm, and a plurality of lift mechanisms affixed to the frame to provide a vertically adjustable trailer.

Systems, methods, and apparatuses for engaging, lifting, and moving objects such as wheeled cargo trailers are provided. In one embodiment, a mobile apparatus includes a transport mechanism, a frame, and one or more lift assemblies. The lift assemblies may be adjusted using one or more attached actuators that position the lift assemblies and/or components thereof for engaging and lifting an object. The transport mechanism may be autonomously operated. A vision system may be used to locate and identify objects and/or guide the mobile apparatus into position to engage and lift the objects. An adapter for a pneumatic braking system of a wheeled cargo trailer is also provided. The adapter provides a pneumatic attachment for a pressurized air source that is separate from a glad hands connector attached to the braking system.

Systems and methods for loading a container onto a container carrier comprising, lowering a set of rails of the container carrier from a raised position to a lowered position, wherein a horizontal surface of each of the set of rails is lower than the bottom surface of the container, expanding, horizontally, the set of rails, to an expanded position, moving at least one of the container carrier or the container so that the container is between the set of rails, contracting, horizontally, the set of rails, to a contracted position, such that the horizontal surface of each of the set of rails is directly underneath the bottom surface of the container and raising the set of rails from the lowered position to the raised position, such that the horizontal surface of each of the set of rails lift the container off the supports.

To decrease the off-load turn-around time of HGVs, the invention involves inter alia a system including a vehicle outrigger and landing gear apparatus (VOLGA) adapted to support a load the apparatus including a goods supportable frame mountable to and detachable from a HGV; a plurality of pneumatically moveable outrigger arms fitted to the frame each moveable between a stowed and a deployed position; a landing gear including a ground contactable leg operatively connected to each outrigger arm and pneumatically moveable between a stowed and a deployed position to support the frame above the ground in the deployed position; and a plurality of locking pins each moveable between a locked and an unlocked position so as to lock each of the arms and legs in their stowed or deployed position; and a HGV including means to connect the vehicle's pneumatic system to the pneumatically operable arms and legs of the VOLGA.

Systems, methods, and apparatuses for engaging, lifting, and moving objects such as wheeled cargo trailers are provided. In one embodiment, a mobile apparatus includes a transport mechanism, a frame, and one or more lift assemblies. The lift assemblies may be adjusted using one or more attached actuators that position the lift assemblies and/or components thereof for engaging and lifting an object. The transport mechanism may be autonomously operated. A vision system may be used to locate and identify objects and/or guide the mobile apparatus into position to engage and lift the objects. An adapter for a pneumatic braking system of a wheeled cargo trailer is also provided. The adapter provides a pneumatic attachment for a pressurized air source that is separate from a glad hands connector attached to the braking system.

A towable system includes a U-shaped chassis and a removable load module. The U-shaped chassis includes a first side member and an opposed side member that define a chassis separation distance. The opposed side members include respective mounting surfaces. A frame of the removable load module fits within the chassis separation distance and has complimentary surfaces to the respective mounting surfaces and support members. The support members and the frame are arranged to fit within an area defined by the U-shaped chassis.

One variation may include a truck body having one or more cargo pod lift systems around the perimeter of a truck's center aisle which may be lifted or lowered to load/unload one or more cargo pods and a method for doing the same.

Disclosed herein are apparatus for a system includes a main vehicle and a secondary vehicle configured to couple to the main vehicle. The secondary vehicle includes a wheel configured to move the secondary vehicle and a body coupled to the wheel. The body includes a first set of retractable bars. The first set of retractable bars are configured to extend into receivers of the main vehicle in a deactivated state. The first set of retractable bars are further configured to be disposed in the body in a retracted state. The first set of retractable bars are further configured to extend into a pod and lift the pod in an attached state.