Coca Cola Freighltliner M2 tractor
The Hand Truck Sentry System is also available in Coca Cola Red. For additional information about Color Select option, please contact your local HTS Systems distributor or vehicle upfitter. Image of the new Coke Red HTS-10TR Ultra-Rack unit, special color requested by Coca Cola for their trucks in Northeast region of USA. Coca Cola - 2008 Freightliner M2 Business Class tractor with our new Coke Red HTS-10T Tilt Mount Ultra-Rack securing Magliner aluminum hand truck.
Re: Awesome product – Coca Cola route driver - Sent: Fri 11/13/2009 10:26 PM EST
What a great looking product. I am a route driver for Coca-Cola in North Carolina. I am going to try and print the info off your website so I can present to my District Supervisors next week. I would love to have your product on my delivery truck. If you only knew how many times I have left hand trucks in accounts and had to turn around and go back and get them. We still use bungee cords as well as a metal cord for now as secondary back up, but they still break and even if the bungee cord snaps in two. The metal strap still allows the hand truck to hit the ground still not safe. I have been thinking of how I could come up with something better to present to my company. I think I have now found the solution.
I will present this next week and we will see where it goes from here.
Thanks for your time,
Adam M. - Coca Cola route driver - Hickory, North Carolina
Thanks for the kind and positive comments regarding our Hand Truck Sentry System.
We appreciate your interest, especially when it comes from a professional route driver.
I delivered Anheuser Busch products for five years, I've been there, I've done that and I know exactly where you’re coming from. Even the most experienced beverage drivers will need to retrieve their hand truck. It really can be a serious problem if you have to back track 10-20 miles. That's 20-40 miles round trip! You lose a huge amount of route time, your company loses gallons of fuel and you're praying that the hand truck is still where you left it. If you find the hand truck has been stolen when you return, then what? If you find the hand truck has been stolen when you return, then what? Do you finish the route without it, possibly hurting yourself? About now you're worrying, who is responsible to pay for a new hand truck and what about tomorrows run. Now you're really focusing on your safe driving and customer service skills! Ouch! You are now an accident waiting to happen!
The labor, fuel and profits lost is thousands of dollars annually per distributor, not to mention the liability level when we rush back to retrieve the hand truck, trying to make-up lost time. We don’t want to admit it or sometimes don't realize it, but we try to make-up time by turning our route trucks into a time machine, risking speeding citations, highway accidents, injury and placing ourselves and our employer in lawsuit jeopardy!
Carl Boettcher
HTS Systems - National Accounts Manager - Clarks Summit, PA.
On average, it takes approximately 0.5 to 1.5 (½ - 1½) minutes to unload and reload a hand truck aboard a commercial route truck, depending on the truck body type, door locks, deck height, securing method, cargo space, driver fitness and the hand truck weight and model. Unlocking padlocks, unlocking and reopening doors, physical lifting and climbing and moving cargo to access is valuable time! Upon completing the delivery; the driver will loose additional time to reopen the cargo area to safely store hand truck aboard the vehicle. Many drivers toss their hand trucks on top of fragile products causing claims damage. When drivers must back track off route to retrieve a forgotten hand truck it usually takes about 20-30 minutes round trip. Hand truck retrievals can cost delivery companies thousands in fuel and labor! The average route driver will forget their hand truck 4-6 times per year. Most supervisors only hear about it once or twice, or when the hand truck is lost or stolen! Unloading and reloading the hand truck aboard vehicles with a hasp bar or a rubber strap hand truck carrier frame requires additional time and the use of both hands. When a driver works off the back of the truck and also docks to warehouse doors it is very common for him to remove the hand truck from vehicle to the loading dock area so that a pallet jack or forklift can enter. Often times the driver forgets to reload the hand truck aboard the cargo area before departure, leaving it miles behind!
Unload and reload your hand truck in just 6-8 seconds when using the HTS Ultra-Rack on any model of route delivery vehicle! It takes only 3-4 seconds to access your hand truck and 3-4 seconds to safely store the hand truck aboard the route vehicle using one hand! Saving a driver a minute or more during each delivery stop X 30 stops per day = equals a labor cost savings of 2.5 hours per week! Also... your drivers will never forget their hand trucks, waste valuable time, labor or expensive fuel when using the HTS Ultra-Rack! That's how the HTS Ultra-Rack is able to pay for itself in less time than most route delivery vehicles can wear out a new set of tires! Fast and Powerful Saving!
Coca Cola Freighltliner M2 tractor
The Hand Truck Sentry System is also available in Coca Cola Red. For additional information about Color Select option, please contact your local HTS Systems distributor or vehicle upfitter. Image of the new Coke Red HTS-10TR Ultra-Rack unit, special color requested by Coca Cola for their trucks in Northeast region of USA. Coca Cola - 2008 Freightliner M2 Business Class tractor with our new Coke Red HTS-10T Tilt Mount Ultra-Rack securing Magliner aluminum hand truck.
Re: Awesome product – Coca Cola route driver - Sent: Fri 11/13/2009 10:26 PM EST
What a great looking product. I am a route driver for Coca-Cola in North Carolina. I am going to try and print the info off your website so I can present to my District Supervisors next week. I would love to have your product on my delivery truck. If you only knew how many times I have left hand trucks in accounts and had to turn around and go back and get them. We still use bungee cords as well as a metal cord for now as secondary back up, but they still break and even if the bungee cord snaps in two. The metal strap still allows the hand truck to hit the ground still not safe. I have been thinking of how I could come up with something better to present to my company. I think I have now found the solution.
I will present this next week and we will see where it goes from here.
Thanks for your time,
Adam M. - Coca Cola route driver - Hickory, North Carolina
Thanks for the kind and positive comments regarding our Hand Truck Sentry System.
We appreciate your interest, especially when it comes from a professional route driver.
I delivered Anheuser Busch products for five years, I've been there, I've done that and I know exactly where you’re coming from. Even the most experienced beverage drivers will need to retrieve their hand truck. It really can be a serious problem if you have to back track 10-20 miles. That's 20-40 miles round trip! You lose a huge amount of route time, your company loses gallons of fuel and you're praying that the hand truck is still where you left it. If you find the hand truck has been stolen when you return, then what? If you find the hand truck has been stolen when you return, then what? Do you finish the route without it, possibly hurting yourself? About now you're worrying, who is responsible to pay for a new hand truck and what about tomorrows run. Now you're really focusing on your safe driving and customer service skills! Ouch! You are now an accident waiting to happen!
The labor, fuel and profits lost is thousands of dollars annually per distributor, not to mention the liability level when we rush back to retrieve the hand truck, trying to make-up lost time. We don’t want to admit it or sometimes don't realize it, but we try to make-up time by turning our route trucks into a time machine, risking speeding citations, highway accidents, injury and placing ourselves and our employer in lawsuit jeopardy!
Carl Boettcher
HTS Systems - National Accounts Manager - Clarks Summit, PA.
On average, it takes approximately 0.5 to 1.5 (½ - 1½) minutes to unload and reload a hand truck aboard a commercial route truck, depending on the truck body type, door locks, deck height, securing method, cargo space, driver fitness and the hand truck weight and model. Unlocking padlocks, unlocking and reopening doors, physical lifting and climbing and moving cargo to access is valuable time! Upon completing the delivery; the driver will loose additional time to reopen the cargo area to safely store hand truck aboard the vehicle. Many drivers toss their hand trucks on top of fragile products causing claims damage. When drivers must back track off route to retrieve a forgotten hand truck it usually takes about 20-30 minutes round trip. Hand truck retrievals can cost delivery companies thousands in fuel and labor! The average route driver will forget their hand truck 4-6 times per year. Most supervisors only hear about it once or twice, or when the hand truck is lost or stolen! Unloading and reloading the hand truck aboard vehicles with a hasp bar or a rubber strap hand truck carrier frame requires additional time and the use of both hands. When a driver works off the back of the truck and also docks to warehouse doors it is very common for him to remove the hand truck from vehicle to the loading dock area so that a pallet jack or forklift can enter. Often times the driver forgets to reload the hand truck aboard the cargo area before departure, leaving it miles behind!
Unload and reload your hand truck in just 6-8 seconds when using the HTS Ultra-Rack on any model of route delivery vehicle! It takes only 3-4 seconds to access your hand truck and 3-4 seconds to safely store the hand truck aboard the route vehicle using one hand! Saving a driver a minute or more during each delivery stop X 30 stops per day = equals a labor cost savings of 2.5 hours per week! Also... your drivers will never forget their hand trucks, waste valuable time, labor or expensive fuel when using the HTS Ultra-Rack! That's how the HTS Ultra-Rack is able to pay for itself in less time than most route delivery vehicles can wear out a new set of tires! Fast and Powerful Saving!