Portable Loading Docks

Not every building comes with enough dock doors — and some come with none at all. Pouring concrete takes weeks, costs five figures, and permanently commits you to a layout you may not want in two years.

A Medlin portable loading dock solves the same problem in an afternoon. It arrives ready to work, sits on your existing surface, and moves when your operation moves. Forklifts drive straight from ground level onto the trailer with no structural work and no permit.

Common uses:

• No dock at all. Load and unload trailers, containers and flatbeds at grade.
• Not enough dock doors. Add loading stations during peak season, pull them out after.
• Dock extension. Bridge to a trailer that doesn’t fit your existing dock height.
• Temporary facilities. Overflow warehouses, seasonal sites, leased space you can’t modify.
• Rail and container loading where a permanent dock was never an option.

Built to Order, Built in America

Medlin has manufactured material handling equipment for 35 years, with facilities in California, New Mexico, North Carolina and Florida. Every dock is fabricated from domestic steel at one of our own plants — not imported, not outsourced.

Because we fabricate in-house, a non-standard height, width, capacity or surface isn’t a special order. It’s a drawing. Tell us the trailer, the grade and the clearance you’re working with and we’ll size the dock to it.

Buy or Rent

Portable docks are available for purchase or rental with nationwide delivery. If you need one for a seasonal push, a facility move or a project with an end date, renting usually makes more sense than owning. If it’s going to run every day for years, buying pays for itself quickly against the cost of pouring concrete.