Loading Dock Traffic Lights and Truck Communication Safety Systems
Dock Traffic Systems provide clear visual communication between truck drivers and dock personnel, helping reduce accidents, improve loading dock safety, and streamline trailer loading and unloading operations. Using highly visible red and green traffic signals, these systems create a simple, effective process that helps prevent premature trailer departure and enhances workplace safety. Ideal for warehouses, distribution centers, manufacturing facilities, and shipping operations, dock traffic lights help facilities maintain safer and more efficient dock management procedures.
Key Features & Benefits
Designed for dependable performance in demanding industrial environments, these dock safety systems are available in multiple configurations, including durable aluminum and polypropylene housings with incandescent or energy-efficient LED lighting. Built-in sun visors improve signal visibility in bright outdoor conditions, while illuminated controls provide clear communication between the dock attendant and truck driver. The visual signaling process supports wheel chocking procedures and helps reduce the risk of trailer creep, unexpected vehicle movement, and loading dock injuries.
Applications
These loading dock signaling systems are ideal for shipping and receiving areas where clear communication is critical. Facilities can use them to improve dock safety compliance, reduce downtime, and establish consistent loading procedures that protect personnel, equipment, forklifts, and inventory.
Configurations & Power Options
Models are available with incandescent or LED technology and support a variety of power requirements, including AC and DC configurations. This flexibility allows distributors and end users to select the right dock traffic control solution for new installations, retrofit projects, or specialized facility requirements while maintaining reliable visual communication at the loading dock.
DTS-10 Sequence of Operation:
With an empty dock, the DTS-10 lights are green outside and the red inside. Once a truck driver has chocked the trailer's wheels the driver presses the outside "CHOCKED" button, which flips the outside light red and the inside light green. If the truck driver fails to press the outside button, the dock attendant can press the "CHOCKED" button at the inside control panel, if it has been affirmed that the trailer wheels are chocked. (OSHA Standard 1910.178 sections (k)(1) and (m)(7) requires that wheel chocks be placed under the rear wheels of a truck.) Once the trailer has been loaded/unloaded, the dock attendant presses the "DEPART" button to indicate that it is okay for the truck driver to remove the chocks from in front of the trailer wheels and pull away from the dock. Pressing the "DEPART" button causes the lights to turn green outside and red inside.