Cargo Delivery System and Method

• US 20120251289A1
• Filed: 01/12/2012
• Published: 10/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Thomas Gesuale
• Original Assignee: Thomas Gesuale
• Inventors: Gesuale, Thomas
• Application Number:
  US13/349,064
• Publication Number:
  US 20120251289A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 414/800
• CPC Class Codes: B60P 3/07 for carrying road vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60P 3/08 Multilevel-deck construction carrying vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B65F 2003/008 interchangeable
• CPC Class Codes: B65F 2003/0279 the discharging means mounted at the front of the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B65F 3/041 Pivoted arms or pivoted carriers
• CPC Class Codes: B65F 3/14 with devices for charging, distributing or compressing refuse in the interior of the tank of a refuse vehicle B65F3/02 takes precedence

Abstract

Disclosed is an improved system and method for delivering and backhauling cargo to and from a destination. The present invention generally comprises a first and second truck that are in an outbound configuration to deliver a cargo to at least one location. The first and second truck each have at least one flatbed section. After the cargo has been delivered, the first and second truck assume a return configuration wherein the second truck and second truck flatbed is stored on and secured to the at least one flatbed section of the first truck for a backhaul destination for the second truck. It is important to note that no portion of the second truck and second truck flatbed section in the return configuration is in contact with the ground, they are only in contact with the first truck flatbed section.

Claims

1. A system for delivering cargo to at least one location, comprising:

an outbound cargo delivery configuration, said outbound configuration including a first truck and a second truck that each have cargo to deliver to said location, said first truck and said second truck each having a tractor unit, a first flatbed section attached to said tractor unit, and a second flatbed section attached to said first flatbed section, said first flatbed section of said first and said second truck having a cargo secured thereon and said second flatbed section of said first truck and said second truck having a cargo secured thereon, said first flatbed section of said first and said second truck each having at least one pair of wheels attached to the bottom surface of each of said first and said second truck first flatbed sections, said second flatbed section of said first and said second truck each having at least one pair of wheels attached to the bottom surface of each of said first and said second truck section flatbed sections, said tractor unit of said first and said second truck each having at least one pair of wheels attached to the bottom surface of said first and said second truck tractor unit for driving said tractor unit;

a backhaul configuration, said backhaul configuration including said first truck having a backhaul cargo secured to said first truck first flatbed section and said second flatbed section of said first truck having a return configuration of said second truck secured thereon, said return configuration being said second truck first flatbed section attached to said second truck tractor unit while said second truck second flatbed section is stored and secured on the top surface of said second truck first flatbed section, wherein said wheels of said second truck second flatbed section are in contact with the top surface of said second truck first flatbed section in said return configuration and wherein said wheels of said second truck first flatbed section and said second truck tractor unit in contact with the top surface of said first truck second flatbed section when the disassembled return configuration of the second truck is secured on said first track second flatbed section.

2. The system according to claim 1 wherein said backhaul configuration includes a first set of side panels attached to said first flatbed section of said first truck to cover said backhaul cargo and a second set of side panels attached to said second flatbed section of said second truck to cover said return configuration of said second truck.

3. The system according to claim 2 wherein said backhaul configuration further comprises a first roof panel secured along the top edge of said first set of side panels and a second roof panel secured along the top edge of said second set of side panels, said first and said second roof panels covering the top of the backhaul configuration and the return configuration of the second truck.

4. The system according to claim 1 wherein said first truck cargo and said second truck cargo is at least one waste container, said waste container being a Jezco container.

5. The system according to claim 1 wherein said backhaul cargo is a stack of waste containers.

6. The system according to claim 1 wherein said second flatbed section of said first truck is longer than said first flatbed section of said first truck.

7. The system according to claim 6 wherein said first flatbed section of said second truck is substantially the same size as said second flatbed section of said second truck.

8. The system according to claim 7 wherein said first flatbed section of said second truck is substantially the same size as said first flatbed section of said first truck.

9. The system according to claim 1 wherein said first truck tractor unit and said second truck tractor unit are the same type.

10. The system according to claim 1 wherein said first truck and said second truck have axles of substantially the same size.

11. The system according to claim 1 wherein said first truck and said second truck have the same number of axles.

12. The system according to claim 11 wherein said first truck and said second truck are 2 axle medium duty trucks.

13. The system according to claim 11 wherein said first truck and said second truck are 3 axle heavy duty trucks.

14. The system according to claim 1 wherein said first truck and said second truck have the same number of wheels.

15. The system according to claim 14 wherein said wheels of said first truck and said wheels of said second truck are substantially the same size.

16. The system according to claim 1 wherein the attachment between the tractor unit and first flatbed section of the first and second trucks, and the attachment between the first flatbed section and the second flatbed section of the first and second trucks is a ball mount hitch mechanism.

17. The system according to claim 1 wherein said flatbed sections of said first and said second truck have a flatbed tilting assembly for receiving and loading said cargo to deliver, said backhaul cargo, and said second truck in said return configuration.

18. A system for delivering waste to a landfill, comprising:

an outbound waste delivery configuration, said outbound configuration including a first truck and a second truck that each have a cargo of waste to dispose of at said landfill, said first truck and said second truck each having a tractor unit, a first flatbed section hitched to said tractor unit, and a second flatbed section hitched to said first flatbed section, wherein said first truck cargo of waste includes one waste container secured to said first truck first flatbed section and two waste containers secured to said first truck second flatbed section, wherein said second truck cargo of waste includes one waste container secured to said second truck first flatbed section and two waste containers secured to said second truck second flatbed section, said first flatbed section of said first and said second truck each having at least one pair of wheels attached to the bottom surface of each of said first and said second truck first flatbed sections, said .second flatbed section of said first and said second truck each having at least one pair of wheels attached to the bottom surface of each of said first and said second truck section flatbed sections, said tractor unit of said first and said second truck each having at least one pair of wheels attached to the bottom surface of said first and said second truck tractor unit for driving said first and said second truck tractor unit;

a backhaul configuration for leaving said landfill after said first and said second trucks have delivered said cargoes of waste to said landfill, said backhaul configuration including said first truck having a stack of waste containers secured to said first truck first flatbed section and said second truck in a return configuration being secured to the top surface of said first truck second flatbed section, said second truck return configuration comprising said second truck first flatbed section attached to said second truck tractor unit and said second truck second flatbed section secured to the top surface of said second truck first flatbed section, wherein said wheels of said second truck second flatbed section are in contact with the top surface of said second truck first flatbed section in said return configuration and wherein said wheels of said second truck first flatbed section and said second truck tractor unit are in contact with the top surface of said first truck second flatbed section when the return configuration of the second truck is secured on said first truck second flatbed section..

19. A method for delivering cargo to at least one location, comprising:

sending a first truck with a cargo and a second truck with a cargo to at least one location for delivery to said location, wherein said first stuck has a tractor unit, a first flatbed section attached to said tractor unit, and a second flatbed section attached to said first flatbed section, wherein said second truck has a tractor unit, a first flatbed section attached to said tractor unit, and a second flatbed section attached to said first flatbed section, wherein said first truck has cargo secured to said first truck first flatbed section and said first truck second flatbed section, wherein said second truck has cargo secured to said second truck first flatbed section and said second truck second flatbed section, and wherein said first flatbed section of said first and said second truck each having at least one pair of wheels attached to the bottom surface of each of said first and said second truck first flatbed sections, said second flatbed section of said first and said second truck each having at least one pair of wheels attached to the bottom surface of each of said first and said second truck section flatbed sections, said tractor unit of said first and said second truck each having at least one pair of wheels attached to the bottom surface of said first and said second truck tractor unit for driving said tractor unit, wherein said first truck and said second truck have 2 axles, have flatbed sections of substantially the same size, and have tractor units of substantially the same size;

unloading said cargo from said first truck and said second truck when said first truck and said second truck arrive at said location;

detaching said second truck second flatbed section from said second truck first flatbed section;

securing said second truck second flatbed section onto the top surface of said second truck first flatbed section to form a return configuration for said second truck, said return configuration being said second truck first flatbed section attached to said second truck tractor unit and said second truck second flatbed section secured to said second truck first flatbed section;

securing said return configuration of said second truck onto said second flatbed section of said first truck;

securing a backhaul cargo onto at least a portion of said first flatbed section of said first truck; and

returning said second truck, said backhaul cargo, and said first truck to a final destination for said second truck, to a final destination for said backhaul cargo, and to a final destination for said first truck.