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Dock House Exterior Dock Levelers

Unlike conventional pit-style dock levelers in your building floor, Dock House Exterior Dock Levelers attach to the outside of your facility to seamlessly connect trucks to your building for weather-protected loading. The exterior design of these dock levelers means no structural changes, digging footings, or cutting holes in your building’s floor.

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Smarter Way to Add Dock Levelers

  • Installed in a day on the exterior of the building
  • No concrete work or disruption to internal operations
  • Reclaim 100 sq ft of dock space for staging to speed up operations
  • Protects building from truck impact
  • Weather-protected loading
  • Maintain warehouse temps, energy savings up to $2,500/year per dock
  • Detach & relocate your investment as needs change

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Smart Engineering and Steel, No Concrete Needed

Workers in safety vests and helmets install a steel-framed exterior dock house at a warehouse loading dock.

Fast Retrofit

Dock House Exterior Dock Leveler is installed in a day, so you can avoid internal disruptions, concrete work, unknown hazards and costly downtime involved with installing pit levelers. Power options are customized per site and include a plug in DC retrofit option, no electrician needed.

A Dockzilla Dock House Exterior Loading Dock Leveler with insulated side panels, ready for efficient and climate-controlled loading at a warehouse.

Cold Loading Vestibule

Dock House Exterior Dock Leveler encloses our self-standing dock leveler to create a “vestibule” that delivers thermal efficiencies when trailers are in position for loading. An exterior door can be added to the vestibule to realize additional efficiencies.

In-Floor Pit Levelers Cause Major Energy Loss at Loading Docks

Save Energy, Keep Pests Out

Dock House Exterior Dock Leveler enables the dock door to close directly on the building floor instead of a steel dock plate saving up to $2,500 per year per dock position. You not only save energy but you pest-proof your loading operation.

Dockzilla exterior Dock House installation saves 100 square feet per loading dock of interior floorspace.

Preserve Floor Space

The modular Dock House Exterior Dock Leveler bolts onto the exterior of a building which preserves internal floor space for warehouse operations. It’s easily detached and relocated when needed.

Trailer loading at Dockzilla Exterior Dock House.

Protect Building from Truck Damage

The high-strength steel frame absorbs impact and deflects forces away from the building, minimizing damage from trailers compared to direct pit-leveler hits.

Dockzilla Dock House with Exterior Dock Leveler can be engineered to customer specifications.

Customized Per Application

Dock House Exterior Dock Leveler can be engineered to customer specifications, by integrating scissor lifts, VHL levelers, skewed options etc. Length can be customized to accommodate 4 – 15’+ leveler.

Dock leveler Safety made simple

Dock House with hydraulic dock leveler open

Hydraulic Dock Leveler

Reduces physical strain on employee, speeds up operations.

Control box for push button operation of Dock House with dock leveler

Push-Button Control

Promote safe sequence of operation, option for integrated door, leveler, restraint control box.

Insulation from Inside

Built-In Fall Protection

Architecturally designed per OSHA/IBC codes for safety.

Dockzilla Universal Vehicle Restraint engaged at loading dock position with trailer in place

Universal Restraint

Low-maintenance dock lock with extended reach for new 5-sided RIGs.

“Installing Dockzilla’s Dock House Exterior Dock Levelers is a no brainer. Having more modern and sustainable dock levelers that means we don’t have to dig pits out of our building floors just makes a ton of sense.”

– Andy Vacek, Director of Global Distribution and Logistics, Banner Engineering

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Safety

Dockzilla’s loading dock equipment is architecturally designed per OSHA/IBC codes for safety. Dock House Exterior Dock Levelers are self-supported and equipped with safety features to protect employees.

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Durable

Dock House Exterior Dock Levelers are built from high strength steel at capacities required for customer’s forklift loading needs. They are designed for long term use and feature a 5-year structural warranty.

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Fast & Easy

Dock House Exterior Dock Levelers are attached in a day, with no disruption to internal operations, while pit leveler installation requires weeks of downtime due to permitting, substantial demolition, and concrete work.

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Versatile

Dock House Exterior Dock Levelers are easily detached from the building and relocated, while pit style dock levelers structurally change a facility and may require significant reclamation expenses when a lease ends.

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