Study Group Session: S.7 Trailers, Bodies & Material Handling — Liftgate Preventive Maintenance: Raising the Bar

Power liftgates provide trucking operations great benefit and value for the work they can perform and simplify. A variety of configurations and designs ensure liftgates can be successfully applied to a variety of industry vocations including cold-chain logistics, pickup and delivery operations, and urban city delivery just to name a few.

Yet as with any technology, attaining the maximum benefit and service life from liftgates relies on proper preventive maintenance. If your operation relies on liftgates to get the job done, are you maintaining these systems properly?

ATA’s Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC) has developed a number of recommended practices on liftgate specification, charging, and maintenance. Of these, TMC RP 733, Liftgate Preventive Maintenance Inspection, offers guidelines for liftgate preventive maintenance inspection (PMI) procedures, based on fleet usage and time schedules. The document covers liftgate identification, structural inspection and lubrication, hydraulic inspection, and electrical inspection. 

Attend this session as our expert panel will provide an indepth look at this recommended practice and offer guidelines for raising the bar on your operations liftgate PMI program.

Moderator:

• Justin Olsen (TWC, Inc.)

Speakers:

• Jimmy Fielding (Purkeys Mission Critical Electronics)
• Trey Lowe (Waltco)
• Arron Acosta (Rise®Robotics)