Schwan's Consumer Brands Freschetta Pizza Navistar truck
This HTS-10T Tilt Mount Ultra-Rack was installed a Navistar Schwan's Foods route delivery truck in May of 2006, more than four years later and it operates like new and looks great! The Magliner Gemini Senior aluminum hand truck is securely locked aboard the route vehicle.
The Schwan Food Company is located in Marshall, MN.
HTS Systems' patented Hand Truck Sentry System prevents delivery drivers from leaving their hand trucks behind, saves fuel and labor by eliminating retrieval time, reduces route time, worker injuries, highway accidents and bacterial cross-contamination. The HTS also increases cargo space while reducing hand truck damage and theft, product damage, insurance claims and refrigeration temperature loss. It quickly pays for itself, while it protects your business from liability and saves $$$ thousands per vehicle!
The HTS Ultra-Rack® uses automotive latch technology commonly built into truck powered door locks and a warning system used on most service utility trucks. The Food Service and Beverage Industry, Parcel and Freight Companies and Armored Car Fleets now take advantage of: The World's Ultimate Logistics Advantage for Hand Trucks! If your route drivers use hand trucks to move merchandise and you're looking for new and faster methods to save fuel, reduce costs, save and increase profits, then you need our HTS Ultra-Rack/Hand Truck Sentry System today! Fleets can save thousands in fuel costs.
The HTS Ultra-Rack saves a route driver a minute or more per delivery stop, that's about 2.5 hours per week! For example; save a minute per stop X 30 stops per day = 600 mins. per month or 120 hours per year X $10 per hour = $1,200 dollars in annual savings! For one delivery vehicle over a 4 year time period = $4,800 dollars in labor + $400 in fuel savings + $300 in hand truck replacements = $5,500 dollars! Include additional payload cargo area, less freight claims damage, less driver injuries, reduced liability and insurance costs = $2,000 per year or about $8,000 dollars in a four year time period! Prevent a workmen's compensation injury claim or an expensive liability lawsuit and well... you get the point!
What other investment could you possibly make in your company and truck fleet that will give you that large of a return and that type of protection? Any driver who rushes back (off-route) in a hurry to retrieve their forgotten hand truck is no longer a safe driver, they instantly become a liability! The ancient hand truck carrier racks of the past eventually fail and it usually occurs when the delivery truck is traveling. Often these types of failures result in catastrophic highway accidents, severe injuries and costly lawsuits and legal settlements.
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When working out of a dry box van or refrigerated truck body (using an HTS) the safety, the savings and the payback can be substantial! Schwan's Foods (Freschetta Pizza), Kraft Foods (DiGiorno Pizza) and Carvel Ice Cream drivers appear to have similar delivery routines. We’ve been studying their work process and interviewing drivers about safe product handling and equipment choices. If the driver finds an empty dock door and he’s able to dock his truck, the driver may select a few options to transfer his goods. He may use his hand truck, platform dolly or grab a store u-boat or even a grocery cart. It appears the routine depends on amount of product and the store location. When the driver can’t dock, or he must delivery to a location without a loading dock, their hand truck is vital. Drivers hate to lower and lift their hand truck back into the cargo area. Many route drivers have been seriously injured when falling out of the cargo area while attempting to lower their hand truck to the ground. Often drivers become injured when lifting improperly when reloading their hand trucks aboard the rear of the truck. We observed one delivery driver making a pick-up as he walked to the rear of the delivery truck, unlatch and opened the rear cargo door, climb up onto the box van; The driver then had to lean dangerously over the edge of the door threshold to lower his hand truck five feet to the ground, then carefully climb down and secure the door closed; just to access his hand truck! Total time for this task was over one minute per stop, 30 minutes a day or 2.5 hours of labor per week! If a driver doesn't have a hand truck, they hate wasting time and walking into the store to search for a cart. We asked one route driver what he thought about our HTS Ultra-Rack. He said, “I enjoy having my hand truck out of the way when I’m reloading my truck or when I’m building orders in the freezer and it’s great to have it closer to the ground where I need it.”
Many frozen foods delivery drivers pick their store orders, load them into their gray cargo (totes) tubs and load their tubs onto a hand truck or platform dolly. Most drivers hate using dollies if they’re parked on snow, ice or gravel parking lots. Some drivers will grab their dolly and push it with their body bent over, because at times they don’t want to lower and lift their heavier hand truck from the high freezer body. If they do have an HTS unit and a hand truck they usually select the hand truck to move their totes, instead of pushing the dolly hunched over. Workers can strain or injure their back this way. Training drivers to change their work behavior or alter their routine to increase safety and ergonomics isn’t easy! But when you do, risk managers and safety directors can quantify the benefits by creating a very profitable bottom-line!
Schwan's Consumer Brands Freschetta Pizza Navistar truck
This HTS-10T Tilt Mount Ultra-Rack was installed a Navistar Schwan's Foods route delivery truck in May of 2006, more than four years later and it operates like new and looks great! The Magliner Gemini Senior aluminum hand truck is securely locked aboard the route vehicle.
The Schwan Food Company is located in Marshall, MN.
HTS Systems' patented Hand Truck Sentry System prevents delivery drivers from leaving their hand trucks behind, saves fuel and labor by eliminating retrieval time, reduces route time, worker injuries, highway accidents and bacterial cross-contamination. The HTS also increases cargo space while reducing hand truck damage and theft, product damage, insurance claims and refrigeration temperature loss. It quickly pays for itself, while it protects your business from liability and saves $$$ thousands per vehicle!
The HTS Ultra-Rack® uses automotive latch technology commonly built into truck powered door locks and a warning system used on most service utility trucks. The Food Service and Beverage Industry, Parcel and Freight Companies and Armored Car Fleets now take advantage of: The World's Ultimate Logistics Advantage for Hand Trucks! If your route drivers use hand trucks to move merchandise and you're looking for new and faster methods to save fuel, reduce costs, save and increase profits, then you need our HTS Ultra-Rack/Hand Truck Sentry System today! Fleets can save thousands in fuel costs.
The HTS Ultra-Rack saves a route driver a minute or more per delivery stop, that's about 2.5 hours per week! For example; save a minute per stop X 30 stops per day = 600 mins. per month or 120 hours per year X $10 per hour = $1,200 dollars in annual savings! For one delivery vehicle over a 4 year time period = $4,800 dollars in labor + $400 in fuel savings + $300 in hand truck replacements = $5,500 dollars! Include additional payload cargo area, less freight claims damage, less driver injuries, reduced liability and insurance costs = $2,000 per year or about $8,000 dollars in a four year time period! Prevent a workmen's compensation injury claim or an expensive liability lawsuit and well... you get the point!
What other investment could you possibly make in your company and truck fleet that will give you that large of a return and that type of protection? Any driver who rushes back (off-route) in a hurry to retrieve their forgotten hand truck is no longer a safe driver, they instantly become a liability! The ancient hand truck carrier racks of the past eventually fail and it usually occurs when the delivery truck is traveling. Often these types of failures result in catastrophic highway accidents, severe injuries and costly lawsuits and legal settlements.
Another Comparison Topic:
When working out of a dry box van or refrigerated truck body (using an HTS) the safety, the savings and the payback can be substantial! Schwan's Foods (Freschetta Pizza), Kraft Foods (DiGiorno Pizza) and Carvel Ice Cream drivers appear to have similar delivery routines. We’ve been studying their work process and interviewing drivers about safe product handling and equipment choices. If the driver finds an empty dock door and he’s able to dock his truck, the driver may select a few options to transfer his goods. He may use his hand truck, platform dolly or grab a store u-boat or even a grocery cart. It appears the routine depends on amount of product and the store location. When the driver can’t dock, or he must delivery to a location without a loading dock, their hand truck is vital. Drivers hate to lower and lift their hand truck back into the cargo area. Many route drivers have been seriously injured when falling out of the cargo area while attempting to lower their hand truck to the ground. Often drivers become injured when lifting improperly when reloading their hand trucks aboard the rear of the truck. We observed one delivery driver making a pick-up as he walked to the rear of the delivery truck, unlatch and opened the rear cargo door, climb up onto the box van; The driver then had to lean dangerously over the edge of the door threshold to lower his hand truck five feet to the ground, then carefully climb down and secure the door closed; just to access his hand truck! Total time for this task was over one minute per stop, 30 minutes a day or 2.5 hours of labor per week! If a driver doesn't have a hand truck, they hate wasting time and walking into the store to search for a cart. We asked one route driver what he thought about our HTS Ultra-Rack. He said, “I enjoy having my hand truck out of the way when I’m reloading my truck or when I’m building orders in the freezer and it’s great to have it closer to the ground where I need it.”
Many frozen foods delivery drivers pick their store orders, load them into their gray cargo (totes) tubs and load their tubs onto a hand truck or platform dolly. Most drivers hate using dollies if they’re parked on snow, ice or gravel parking lots. Some drivers will grab their dolly and push it with their body bent over, because at times they don’t want to lower and lift their heavier hand truck from the high freezer body. If they do have an HTS unit and a hand truck they usually select the hand truck to move their totes, instead of pushing the dolly hunched over. Workers can strain or injure their back this way. Training drivers to change their work behavior or alter their routine to increase safety and ergonomics isn’t easy! But when you do, risk managers and safety directors can quantify the benefits by creating a very profitable bottom-line!