[BCMA] Fwd: Museum travelling exhibit delivery truck sizes?

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Subject: 	Museum travelling exhibit delivery truck sizes?
Date: 	Sun, 22 May 2011 11:27:05 -0700
From: 	Colin Stevens <cstevens at newwestcity.ca>



Does anyone have any measurements for trucks that deliver travelling 
exhibits? Our planners are wishing to make decisions on the loading bays 
for the new Multi-Use Civic Facility building.  Our shared building will 
have a twin loading bay at the bottom of a sloped dead-end street and 
another one off of a side street. The side-street one is intended to be 
mainly for the theatre component but may be used by the museum or art 
gallery to bring in oversized items that will not fit in the twin 
loading bays freight elevator.

They are looking at issues such as "dock height; leveller type ... truck 
size, height, bed height etc." Overhead door height?

I am not aware of any "standards", certainly not since the National 
Museums travelling exhibitions truck was taken out of service a few 
years ago.

My experience from running a National Exhibition Centre was that 
travelling exhibits could arrive in a van, a 3-on truck, 5-ton truck 
with rail-gate or even by semi-trailer -- depending upon size, shipper 
and distance shipped.  So the "standards" would tend to be whatever 
trucks commercial shippers use -- so plan for a semi-trailer truck and 
have an adjustable height platform for the loading dock.

Any thoughts?

*Colin MacGregor Stevens*,

Manager,

New Westminster Museum and Archives,

302 Royal Avenue,

New Westminster, BC,

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