A tailgate is a hydraulic lift on the back of the truck that lowers palletized freight from deck height to the ground. Our drivers roll it right to the door: retail plazas, clinics, job sites, storefronts, residential addresses.
Because straight trucks are smaller than tractor-trailers, they also reach the places a 53-footer physically cannot: tight plazas, downtown streets and height-restricted bays.
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Curbside tailgate delivery is one of our specialties, and has been since 2011.
The receiver needs nothing: no dock, no forklift, no stress.
Tell dispatch the delivery has no dock, or just give us the postal code and we will check it ourselves.
We assign a 24′ to 30′ straight truck with a power tailgate, small enough for plazas and residential streets.
The hydraulic gate lowers your palletized freight to the ground and our driver rolls it to the door.
Delivery is signed for on the spot and the POD lands in your inbox the same day.
Retail plazas, medical clinics, gyms, restaurants, construction sites, storage units and home businesses: a huge share of Ontario delivery points were never built for freight. Shippers discover this the expensive way, when a tractor-trailer arrives and the freight physically cannot come off.
KDM has made curbside tailgate delivery a specialty since 2011. More than fifteen straight trucks in our fleet carry power tailgates rated to 30,000 lbs, and our drivers do this every day, which means pallet jacks, shrink-wrap and awkward doorways are routine rather than a crisis.
For distributors, the same trucks run scheduled multi-stop routes, putting product on your customers' floors across the GTA and beyond without a single dock between them.
Give us the postal code and we will bring the right truck.
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