christopher Harper, Author at DJ Products

Rocket Equipped Military Semis Have Serious Firepower

You can measure military firepower many ways. The miles of range, the pounds of explosives. For the new missile cradle launcher (MCL) by Jobaria Defense Systems in the United Arab Emirates, the key stat is 24 — the number of rockets it can shoot at once.

The MCL profiles as a roadbound military semi truck mover, so it’s not a tool for offroad driving or long-distance battles. When the need for serious firepower arises, however, this MCL packs a punch.

The Astonishing UAE Missile Launcher

Popular Mechanics offers a rundown of the MCL specs along with some video of it in action.

4 rocket cradles with 60 rockets each
Uses TRB-122 122-mm rockets
Rocket range of up to 22 miles
Fires up to 240 rounds in under 2 minutes

Other missile launchers have larger rockets or longer range, but this one from Jobaria stands out with 6 times more rockets than others.

The MCL Is a Tank Hauler, Too

Jobaria used a tank hauler to enable the MCL to carry so much firepower. The US Army uses the same vehicle, an M1070 HET, as a military semi truck mover and Abrams tank hauler. Equipped with a 700-hp turbo diesel engine from Caterpillar, the M1070 is built by Oshkosh Defense.

Moving Heavy Equipment for Uncle Sam

You don’t need a M1070 to move trucks. The TruckCaddy Heavy Truck Pusher and C arCaddy Vehicle Puller are two compact, battery-powered solutions to use as a military semi truck mover. On base or in country, these GSA-approved equipment from DJ Products make it easy to maneuver or tow any heavy vehicles.

OSHA’s On-Site Consultation Program May Address the Trash Room

Are you a small business owner wondering how you can improve workplace safety for your employees? Last year, in response to numerous requests, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) initiated a free on-site consultation program to help companies comply with appropriate standards.

OSHA’s program is completely voluntary, so you begin by initiating a request through their website. A consultant will then contact you to discuss your particular needs and set up an appointment.

How the Consultation Works

• Upon arrival, the consultant will hold an initial conference with you to discuss the process, explain his role and clarify your obligations.

• The two of you will then conduct a walk-through of your workplace, focusing on areas such as the trash room that may be of specific concern to you. In addition to addressing OSHA standards, the consultant will point out potential hazards that may be outside OSHA’s official scope.

• OSHA recommends that you encourage interaction with employees to get their perspective and engage them in the process.

• Finally, the consultant conducts a closing conference to review his findings, both positive and negative. He will also discuss possible solutions to any problems as well as an abatement period during which time you will implement any corrections.

• While the consultant is not a whistle-blower and will not report violations, you are expected to finalize agreed-upon improvements within the abatement period.

The WasteCaddy Dumpster Mover: Like “Another Employee on Staff”

Show your commitment to workplace safety with a WasteCaddy dumpster mover from DJ Products. Use our handy online chat feature to discuss solutions for your company with our friendly sales engineers.

Humvee Stolen from the National Guard Parking Lot

Can a Humvee really disappear into thin air? That’s the question authorities in Ohio are asking themselves after an incident in late March.

The Case of the “Hot” Humvee

A sand-colored Humvee was apparently stolen off the grounds of the Ohio National Guard Armory in Stow, which is a city southeast of Cleveland. According to the State Highway Patrol and a Guard spokesperson, someone cut through the security fence and took the vehicle on either March 21 or 22.

Troopers say the Humvee was locked and secured at the time, but the thief was able to disarm the mechanisms. The search for the vehicle was still on as of two days later.

Military Material Handling Solutions from DJ Products

Humvees are just one of several heavy and bulky vehicles and pieces of equipment such as boats, trailers and bombs that need to be handled by military and DOD personnel. Maneuvering these materials presents a risk to both the equipment and the people moving them.

Our full line of motorized tugs, pushers and pullers includes solutions for any military or DOD application.

The CarCaddy military truck pusher works with Humvees as well as the M939 and FMTV series of trucks.
The WagonCaddy HD is a flat-bed mover that easily accommodates loads of up to 10,000 pounds.
The CartCaddyWagonWheel HD is designed to pull military trailers featuring a front tongue.
The BombCaddy is remote-controlled for operator safety.

Whether you need a military truck pusher or a bomb caddy, DJ Products has your answer. Visit our website and use the online chat feature for immediate assistance from our cheerful sales engineers.

Dumpster Safety – Tips Your Staff Should Know

Do you think the trash room is a relatively low-risk area? Over a five-year period, one school district in Washington state reported a loss of more than 2,000 work days to dumpster- and recycling-related injuries at a cost of $300,000.

Fortunately, there are some common-sense steps you can take to reduce the risk of costly and painful injuries incurred in the trash room.

Dumpster and Compactor Safety Tips

No one should ever enter a dumpster or compactor. Materials should be broken down before going in a dumpster, and a long stick should be used to clear congestion in a compactor.
Areas immediately surrounding dumpsters and compactors should be clutter-free.
The compactor door should be securely closed before operating and should remain closed until the machine is turned off.
Hazardous waste should never go into a dumpster or compactor. Contact your local environmental agency for instructions on appropriate disposal methods.
Compactors should be serviced only by authorized personnel after completing lockout-tagout procedures.
Use caution opening and closing dumpster lids to avoid pinching fingers and hands.
Employees should inform their supervisor immediately if they see evidence of animals or other pests around the dumpster. Under no circumstances should they attempt to handle the problem themselves.
In case of a dumpster fire, call 911.

Promote Trash Room Safety with the WasteCaddy Dumpster Mover

Pushing and pulling heavy dumpsters from the trash room to the pick-up spot can result in serious injuries that are hard to heal. Contact us to learn why our WasteCaddy dumpster mover from DJ Products is an efficient and cost-effective way to improve workplace safety.

Amazon’s Robotic Warehouses Are Shifting the Warehousing Industry to Focus on Robots to Stay Competitive

When Amazon acquired the leading warehouse robotics company, Kiva Systems, in 2012, some feared that the e-commerce giant would monopolize the technology. Instead, we’ve seen a boom of competition for robotics innovation.

Fortunately, fears of lost jobs due to automation have also been tempered. Warehouse equipment, whether it’s a robot or powered tug, can serve to reduce physical injuries and stress for warehouse workers.

From third-party logistics to robotic picking and transporting, warehouse automation continues to evolve and diversify thanks to the healthy competition from robotics firms.

How Warehousing Itself Has Changed

In many ways, it’s not just Amazon but rather the rise of e-commerce itself that has changed warehousing. Instead of loading shipments for brick-and-mortar stores, warehouses are more often packing individual shipments for customers.

For the human workers, picking countless items comes with a heavy physical toll. Repetitive stress injuries, back and neck injuries, and pure exhaustion have long been par for the course. With a powered tug to transport items, or even a robotic picker to locate items for a human to grab, the work becomes less demanding and more manageable.

Protect and Empower Human Workers

Today’s robotics and automated warehouse equipment are not replacing all the humans. The technology can actually make people’s jobs better. As Rick Faulk of Locus recently told reporters, “Now it’s about humans and robots working collaboratively.”

Is your company doing enough to stay competitive and keep up with warehousing technology? Simple and effective steps like removing a time-consuming physical task can easily translate into huge efficiency gains. Consider what our powered tug and cart puller equipment can do for your warehouse.

Technology and Trash Removal: Making Dumpsters “Smart”

Today’s technology has given us smart phones, smart appliances and … smart dumpsters? Here’s how one forward-thinking company developed an ingenious solution to “garbage watching.”

Trash Removal in the Digital Age

In 1991, long before the Internet of Things was on anyone’s radar, OnePlus Systems saw technology as an answer to the problem of smelly, overflowing dumpsters. Their first model was a rudimentary wired pressure sensor that alerted a client’s operations department as well as their waste removal company that a pick-up was needed.

The next step included integration of a web-based platform to provide reporting and leverage waste data. In 2015, private equity company Parker Gale recognized the system’s potential and purchased OnePlus along with SmartBin, a Dublin, Ireland-based manufacturer of intelligent waste disposal solutions.

Under Parker Gale’s direction, the original system began using SmartBin’s wireless ultrasonic fill-level sensors and robust routing and analysis software. Thanks to these “smart” devices and their sophisticated platform, clients receive real-time data and visual tracking of non-compacting dumpsters.

Benefits of Smart Dumpsters

• Waste removal companies get optimized routing so they can focus the workload on full containers.

• Collected data shows that a smart dumpster can reduce waste removal expenses by up to 50 percent.

• Clients can allocate labor to higher priority jobs.

Reduce Expenses and Workplace Injuries with a Dumpster Puller from DJ Products

Are your employees constantly struggling with maneuvering heavy dumpsters in the workplace? Our best-selling WasteCaddyLite is designed to safely transport full dumpsters weighing up to 2,000 pounds.

Call 800.686.2651 or visit our website to find out which battery-powered dumpster puller is the best solution for your workplace.

Highlighting the DJ Products Shopping Cart Retriever

With their tendency to drift off in unpredictable directions, gathering shopping carts can be like herding cats. Make this difficult task easier and more efficient with a battery-powered shopping cart pusher from DJ Products.

Who Wants to Chase Shopping Carts?

Right now, gathering shopping carts at your business is a completely manual operation. Hourly employees take time out from other duties to chase carts around the parking lot and maneuver an increasingly awkward chain.

Pushing and pulling are frequent causes of workplace injuries, making this a particularly risky job. Add the inconvenience of bad weather and retrieving shopping carts becomes a thankless job for any employee.

A Simple Solution to a Tough Problem

Our shopping cart pusher lets a single employee of any age, size and gender move up to 50 shopping carts at one time. Once the pusher is attached to the back of the line of carts, the employee stands in front to guide the line and uses a remote control to activate the pusher.

In addition to making your employees’ job easier and safer, our shopping cart pusher has other money-saving benefits.

Car dings from loose carts are a huge pet peeve for shoppers, so a lot full of stray carts can be a deterrent to business.
Carts left out in the parking lot can often tempt people to take them for their own use.

Money- and Labor-Saving Solutions from DJ Products

Our shopping cart pusher is the perfect solution to a long-standing problem. Visit our website and use our handy chat feature to learn more about our full line of electric pushers, pullers and tugs.

Hospital Administrators Face Cyber Data Threats

As the potential pitfalls of cyber security have evolved over the years, hospital administrators have more to worry about than ever. In addition to the protection of highly sensitive medical data, hospitals also face a constant threat of data ransom and even weaponized WiFi-enabled devices.

What your hospital does now to add protections and educate employees could make the difference when a cyber attack does eventually happen.

HealthcareDive runs down the top four data threats in hospitals:

• Negligence ranging from unencrypted data to employees using shared passwords

• Internal threats including intentional harm and accidental loss of personal devices

• Internet of Things vulnerabilities, with Internet-enabled medical devices becoming a target for hackers and DDoS attacks

• Ransomware attacks wherein hackers seize control of a network and demand payment

What Can Hospitals Do to Improve Cyber Security?

IT experts and healthcare experts must look to technology to play a strong defense, while also teaching good practices to employees at all levels.

• Always use data encryption

• Establish an employee protocol for bring-your-own devices

• Practice good password hygiene with frequent changes

• Self-audit to prevent internal fraud and inappropriate access

• Vet medical devices and equipment for hacking protection

Handling Hospital Materials the Right Way

Everything hospital staff do can impact your bottom line. A hospital equipment cart mover lets nurses and janitors stay productive and efficient, with less strain and injury risk. Run a tight ship when it comes to daily tasks like material movement, and management can spend more time overseeing the strategic decisions instead.

Follow our blog for healthcare news, and read about the hospital equipment cart mover for boosting efficiency and reducing injury claims.

If You Need To Move Live Baby Chicks, We’re Your Guys!

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Traditionally what happens on the road, stays on the road. But this load was too cute to keep quiet about.

Neill Trucking had a recurring need to move thousands of live baby chicks “packaged” in crates of plastic totes.

You can’t manhandle this kind of merchandise.

But they didn’t have time to coddle each crate either. Stacking the totes on a dolly seemed like a reasonable solution, but there was a high risk the precious cargo would tip over.

ChickenCaddy to the rescue!

We built up tall sides on a 4-swivel dolly push pad and told them they could “chain” the dollies together and move all the baby chicks at once, but: They’d need two people: one to push the ChickenCaddy “caboose” and another in front to steer the chick “train.”

Worked like a charm and we made another happy customer. Whether you need to move live baby chicks, airplanes, or dumpsters from Point A to Point B, we apply purpose-built engineering and creative problem solving to move your cargo safely and efficiently.

Prevent Dumpster Hazards With Our Tips

Dumpster Safety Tips Include Using a Dumpster Mover.

The expression “dumpster fire” often gets thrown around as a humorous metaphor, but a real dumpster fire is no joke. Lives can be lost and buildings burnt to rubble when a dumpster catches fire and acts like an enormous torch.

Besides fire hazards, dumpsters can also lead to muscle injuries for workers, slip-and-fall accidents, and general health hazards from fumes or chemicals.

Here are 5 tips to eliminate most sources of dumpster hazards:

Post signs and educate workers about hazardous waste. Learn what substances that are present on site may be combustible, toxic, or corrosive. Let employees and tenants know what items cannot be placed in the dumpster, and post dumpster warning signs.
Never transport dumpsters manually. Dumpsters can easily tip over when being moved, lifted, or tilted. The weight may not be distributed evenly inside the dumpster. Use motorized dumpster tugs to push the container smoothly, especially on rough or inclined ground.
Keep dumpsters locked or inaccessible when possible. Trespassers or unauthorized people may deposit hazardous waste intentionally or otherwise. Dumpster divers may leave broken glass, sharp metal, or other hazards on the ground.
Prohibit smoking near dumpsters. Cigarette butts, lighter fluid, and other combustible substances are often the cause of dumpster fires.
Empty dumpsters regularly. Overfilled dumpsters create spill and tripping hazards. The extra weight also makes it more dangerous to maneuver. Use automated equipment like dumpster tugs and self-emptying systems, and stick to a frequent removal schedule.

Do you have team members who need to tow a dumpster manually? Take care of this big injury concern with battery-powered dumpster tugs that are easy to control!

Author: christopher Harper