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Autocar Terminal Tractors: Built Tough for Florida's Demands
Autocar terminal tractors (yard jockeys/spotter trucks) are built for severe-duty operation, ideal for Florida's challenging climate due to their robust construction like a 100% steel cab and corrosion resistance. They offer significant advantages including unmatched durability, enhanced operator comfort and safety (spacious cab, tight turning radius, auto-lock systems), superior efficiency for quick trailer movements, and reduced maintenance needs. Autocar provides both traditional diesel and all-electric (E-ACTT) models, allowing businesses to choose based on their operational and emissions requirements. These specialized trucks are essential in distribution centers, ports, manufacturing plants, and various other freight and logistics hubs.
Autocar Yard Jockey's are available in both diesel and electric
Autocar is known for its severe-duty vocational trucks, and have developed both traditional diesel-powered ACTT (Autocar Community Collection Truck) models and an all-electric version, the E-ACTT.
The E-ACTT was purpose-built to offer a zero-emission alternative while maintaining the robust performance, durability, and operator comfort that Autocar's diesel terminal tractors are known for. It's designed to meet the demanding duty cycles of yard spotting and container handling, often with capabilities like up to 22 hours of runtime on a single charge and fast-charging options.
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What is a Yard Spotter, Yard Dog or Terminal Tractor?
Terminal tractors, often called yard jockeys or spotter trucks, are indispensable for efficiently moving semi-trailers and shipping containers over short distances within various facilities. You'll typically find them hard at work in:
Distribution Centers and Warehouses: Moving trailers to and from loading docks, organizing incoming and outgoing shipments, and repositioning inventory within large complexes.
Ports and Intermodal Facilities: Shuttling shipping containers between ships, trains, and storage areas, as well as staging them for over-the-road transport.
Trucking Terminals and Freight Yards: Facilitating the sorting and staging of trailers, ensuring smooth flow of freight, and preparing loads for long-haul drivers.
Cross-Docking Facilities: Rapidly moving goods from incoming to outgoing trailers without long-term storage.
Manufacturing Plants: Transporting raw materials, work-in-progress, and finished goods between different production areas or to shipping docks.
Retail Distribution Hubs: Ensuring continuous flow of products to retail stores by efficiently managing trailer movements.
Construction Sites: Moving equipment trailers, materials, and other heavy loads around large job sites.
Recycling and Waste Management Facilities: Maneuvering trailers of refuse or recyclable materials for processing and transport.
Airports: Handling and transporting cargo trailers and other materials handling vehicles within the airport's cargo operations.
FLORIDA LOCATIONS SELLING SIDELOADERS
Based in Jacksonville, Florida, Ring Power Lift Trucks sells, rents and leases Autocar terminal tractors throughout north and central Florida at branches in Daytona Beach, Gainesville, Lakeland, Ocala, Orlando, Sarasota, St. Petersburg, Tampa, Tallahassee. Call or click to have an advisor reach out to you.