A mobile distribution platform apparatus and method utilizing an over the road tractor platform constructed to be freely movable upon the road system. A plurality of ramps are each pivotally joined to the platform and each pivotable between a raised travel configuration and lowered to an extending loading configuration. Each ramp further includes a plurality of adjustable removable support jacks which may be installed on the underside of a ramp and extend downwardly therefrom to provide support for the ramp in its loading configuration. The mobile distribution platform provides a transportation and distribution hub which may be located as required without the need of stationary support facilities. In addition to providing a road transport hub, the present invention mobile distribution platform also provides the capability to locate adjacent a section of railroad track without the need of supporting stationary facilities.

Presenting an auxiliary storage apparatus and aircraft container that enables existing non-regulated temperature containers to be equipped with specific features such as cooling, heating, and humidifying features. The storage container with specific features is inserted into a non-regulated temperature container for aircraft use and affixed to the interior of the non-regulated temperature container by the auxiliary storage apparatus, which includes a wire that passes over the storage container, hooks and pulleys that affix to existing support brackets located on four corners of a floor surface, and a turnbuckle. One end of the wire hooks onto a first hook. The wire passes over the storage container and winds around the pulleys. The other end of the wire attaches to a second hook using the turnbuckle. During operation of the turnbuckle, the wire tightens against the storage container, and the storage container is affixed to the interior of the non-regulated temperature container.

A roof for a modular shipping container is provided. The modular shipping container includes a first end wall, a second end wall, a first side wall, and a second side wall. The roof includes a roof sheet having a top surface and defining a first end, a second end, a first side, and a second side. The roof further includes a pair of skid plate assembles. One of the pair of skid plate assembles is arranged along the first side of the roof sheet, and the other of the pair of skid plate assemblies is arranged along the second side of the roof sheet. The pair of skid plate assemblies partially extend over the top surface of the roof sheet. The roof sheet is formed of a unitary piece of material.

A barrel is capable of vacuum loading and unloading, gravity unloading and loading, and pneumatic unloading. A roll-off skid is coupled to the barrel.

Disclosed herein is a movable platform (MP) for moving freight during cross-dock operations. The MP comprises a mechanical actuation assembly used to deploy a plurality of roller assemblies used for moving the MP. Also disclosed is an actuating attachment used to deploy the mechanical actuation assembly of the MP. The actuating attachment can be attached to a conveyance vehicle, such as a forklift, or built in to an automated guided vehicle.

The logistics arrangement comprises an arm adapted to be pivotably attached to a logistics stand. The arm comprises a support member adapted to carry an object, when the arm is substantially horizontally directed in a storage position, and a pivoting means adapted to pivotably attach the arm to the logistics stand, such that the arm is enabled to pivot between the storage position and a standby position where the arm is substantially vertically directed. The arm also comprises a stop member adapted to together with the logistics stand hold the arm in a storage position. The support member is connected with the stop member and the pivoting means, and the arm is configured to be forced into the standby position by an upwardly directed lift-movement of the another located object, during unload of the lower located object form the logistics stand. The invention also relates to a logistics stand comprising a plurality of logistics arrangements, a logistics system comprising a freight container and at least one logistics stand, and a method for unloading objects from a logistics stand.

A wet sand delivery and conveyor apparatus ships wet proppant from a sand mine wet plant to a well fracturing site and delivers the wet proppant directly to the well site. The wet sand delivery and conveyor apparatus comprises a multi-container support frame, which is mounted on a trailer bed, a plurality of containers mounted to an upper portion of the frame, and a conveyor belt mounted on the frame below the plurality of containers and positioned to receive proppant released in a gravity pour from the containers onto the conveyor belt. An auger mounted near an end of the conveyor belt is also provided to transfer sand from the end of the trailer bed to a position extending diagonally upward and away from the trailer bed to drop sand into a vessel or sand deposit site positioned underneath an upper end portion of the auger.

Racks for shipping loose or packaged glass sheets. A rack includes spaced-apart upright members that taper in thickness such that they are thicker at their lower ends compared to their upper ends. Base members extends outwardly and generally perpendicularly from respective upright members. The base members also taper such that they become thicker moving outwardly from the upright members. An acute or right angle is formed between innermost surfaces of the upright members and uppermost surfaces of the base members. The rack, when used alone, is self-standing as if an L-frame like rack and is arrangeable back-to-back with another rack of the same type to form a mutually-supporting A-frame like rack. The racks are easily loadable onto/removable from rail cars, trucks, and/or the like. Racks include features accommodating forks of a forklift/fork truck, further facilitating their movement.

A transportable container includes: a container, wherein the container comprises: two sidewalls; a front wall; and a floor; and a mating assembly, wherein the mating assembly is attached to the container and comprises: two or more rails secured to an underneath plane of the floor, wherein the two or more rails matingly engage with two or more hoist rails of a roll-off truck; two or more rear rollers; and a loading assembly. The mating assembly and the loading assembly can be attached to the container after the container has been transported from a first location to a second location. The container can thus, be re-purposed for loading, transporting, and unloading via a roll-off truck. The container can be loaded, transported, and unloaded via a cable/winch system or a hook/lift system of the roll-off truck.

A securing assembly is adapted to secure objects to a structure. The assembly includes an attachment mechanism adapted to attach the assembly to an object in use. An elongate rod has a first end and a second end, wherein the first end is connectable to the attachment mechanism and the second end is connectable to an adjustment device. A base is adapted to connect the adjustment device to the structure in use. The adjustment device is operable to adjust a tension between the object and the structure by way of the assembly to secure the object to the structure in use.