SOLUTION: The largest truck commonly received is 20m long and can hold 26 pallets of goods. The owner doesn't like to receive partial shipments. The receiving bay therefore needs to be bigge
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Question 1202527: The largest truck commonly received is 20m long and can hold 26 pallets of goods. The owner doesn't like to receive partial shipments. The receiving bay therefore needs to be bigger than the area of pallets. You decide to make two rows of 13 pallets each. A forklift is used to move pallets and it requires a width of 2,85m to operate in. Each pallet is 1.25m long and 1.25m wide. What size would the receiving bay area be for two pf palltes and space between rows? Answer by Theo(13342) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! the receiving bay needs to have a length (side to side) of at least 2 * 1.25 meters and a width (front to back) of at least 1.25 meters.
that would be an area of at least 3.125 square meters.
this assumes the truck and the fork lift would not have to enter the stoarage area.
the truck would drive near the storage area and the fork lift would be used to move the pallets from the truck to the storage area.
if you want to leave a meter between the pallets and the sides and back and front of the storage area, then the length (side to side) would be 2 * 1.25 + 3 = 5.5 and the width would be 1.25 + 2 = 3.25 for an area of about 17.875 square meters.
the solution to this problem is highly dependent on various factors not given.
some factors that need to be considered.
does the truck need to enter the storage area and be enclosed by the storage area?
does the fork lift need to be stored in the storage area?
what is the width of the truck?
how much space do you want to allow around each set of pallets when they're being stored?
how much space do you want to allow around the truck if the truck has to be enclosed by the storage area?
a diagram of how you want the storage area to be laid out would be very helpful.
