The disclosure provides a delivery vehicle. The delivery vehicle may be automated for delivering one or more containers to a delivery location and unloading the one or more containers at that location. The vehicle includes a vehicle body defining a bay therein. The vehicle also includes a plurality of container hangers mounted within the bay and an automated unloading arm movable between a retracted arm position and an extended arm position. The arm is at least partially received in the bay in the retracted arm position and extends from the body in the extended arm position. The unloading arm comprises at least one container carrying member, such as at least one hook, longitudinally movable along the unloading arm for selective longitudinal alignment with each of the plurality of hangers.

The hooklift comprises a jib, a hook capable of being engaged in a ring of a container, and a positioning device comprising a slot and a slider capable of sliding in the slot. The hook is slidably mounted relative to the jib. The slider is capable of abutting selectively against a first end of the slot or against the second end of the slot so as to respectively prevent a sliding of the hook relative to the jib in a first sliding way beyond a first predefined position of the hook relative to the jib or in a second sliding way beyond a second predefined position of the hook relative to the jib.

There is a container assembly for mounting a container on a truck, operable in a dumping mode or a grounding mode, comprising a base frame mounted on the flatbed, a dumping frame, connected to the base frame and removably attachable to a lower jib the lower jib, supporting the container, removably attachable to the dumping frame and pivotally or removably attachable to the base frame and a first power cylinder configured to rotate the lower jib when the first cylinder is extended and wherein in the dumping mode the lower jib is removably connected to the dumping frame, and whereby, the lower jib rotates to a dumping angle of greater than 45 degrees and wherein in the grounding mode the lower jib is removably and pivotally connected to the base frame, and whereby, the lower jib rotates to a dumping angle of less than 45 degrees.

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.

The invention relates to a loading arm assembly (8) for a load-handling vehicle (1), having a main arm (9) and having an auxiliary arm (11), wherein the loading arm assembly (8) is configured for unloading and loading ISO containers (5) and for unloading and loading transportation containers (6) having a hook (7).

The loading arm assembly (8) is improved in that a crossbeam (19) having two corner grippers (24, 25) and furthermore, separately therefrom, a telescopic gripping hook (16) is disposed on the auxiliary arm (11).

The invention relates to a loading arm assembly (8) for a load-handling vehicle (1), having a main arm (9), having an auxiliary arm (11), having a crossbeam (19), having two corner grippers (24, 25), wherein the auxiliary arm (11) is disposed on the main arm (9), wherein the crossbeam (19) is disposed on the end of the auxiliary arm (11), wherein the corner grippers (24, 25) are each disposed on the ends of the crossbeam (19). The loading arm assembly (8) is improved in that the crossbeam (19) is pivotable relative to the auxiliary arm (11) about two axes (48, 49).

A container carrier (1) comprises an elongate main frame (2). The main frame (2) comprises an articulating lifting apparatus (3). The carrier (1) further comprises a second elongate frame (10) slidably connected to the main frame (2) arranged such that one of the frames is slidably arranged within the other frame in the longitudinal direction. The relative position of the two frames (2, 10) is changeable between a retracted position and an extracted position.

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.

An interchanging arrangement for interchanging at least first and second load units carried by a vehicle comprises a landing device. The landing device is arranged between a first end of the first load unit and a second end of the second load unit so that a first portion of said landing device is supported to the first end of the first load unit and a second portion of said landing device is supported to the second end of the second load unit. The landing device is configured to move said first end of said first load unit into the lower lever than the second end of the second load unit after said first end of the first load unit has met said second end of the second load unit.

A vehicle (2) comprising a working equipment (4) equipped with a movable loading arrangement (5) comprising a first attachment member (7), said vehicle further comprises a sensor system (6) configured to capture environmental data reflecting the environment around the vehicle and to determine, based on said data, image data (8) representing an area at least partly surrounding the vehicle (2).

The sensor system (6) is configured to detect and track positions of the first attachment member (7) and a mating second attachment member (9) of the object (20) to load in said image data representation, and, the detected and tracked positions of the first and second attachment members (7, 9) are used to generate a first set of operation instructions for the loading arrangement (5) of the working equipment that decreases the distance between said first and second attachment members such that said attachment members (7, 9) come into position to engage to each other. The control unit 16 is configured to verify that said attachment members (7, 9) are engaged based on the detected and tracked positions from the sensor system (6), and in response to verifying that said attachment members (7, 9) are engaged, enable activation of an object loading mode in which the control system generates a second set of operation instructions for the working equipment to move the loading arrangement (5) so that the object to load is loaded on the vehicle.