SHR-5100 Shadow Hook® Restraint

Has your vehicle restraint evolved to keep up with your loading dock's demands?

Others try to adapt to changes after they’ve happened. Rite-Hite anticipates what’s next in this rapidly evolving industry — and continuously innovate our time-tested products. We designed our Shadow Hook® vehicle restraint to win when challenged in both today’s environment and in tomorrow’s more automated, connected facility.

No matter where you are in that journey of evolution, the SHR-5100 delivers maximum safety with minimal downtime for the most demanding, most diverse loading dock environments.

 

Is your restraint designed and built with a focus on loading dock safety?

The material handling industry reports more than 100,000 annual forklift accidents. Proper RIG engagement paired with constant restraint status communication helps prevent certain trailer separation accidents, including:

• Trailer creep
• Early departure
• Landing gear collapse
• Trailer pop-up

All Dok-Lok vehicle restraints come standard with red and green lights to communicate to drivers when it's safe to back in or depart, and to dock workers when it's safe to perform loading or unloading operations. Your vehicle restraints should also feature or support future integration of solutions that address trending pedestrian hazards that often occur outside on the dangerous drive approach and inside the loading dock.  

Additional Dock Safety Products

Supporting solutions: 

• Interlock Controls
• Rite-Vu™ Hazard Recognition and Control
• Dok-Commander® Combined Controls
• Wheel Guides
• Trailer Stands (necessary for dropped trailers)

Automation

• Stabilizing Trailer Restraint
• Trailer Lifts

Services:

• Loading Dock Planning & Design
• Planned Maintenance
• Rite-Hite ONE

Are you getting the full value from your vehicle restraint?  

Product Specifications:

• Exclusive Shadow Hook® Design
  • More wrap than competitive vehicle restraints to help maintain RIG engagement, especially in below-dock end load situations.
  • Third-generation machined steel hook with zinc dichromate finish comes standard with a spring-loaded, latch-free Shadow Hook cover that provides wrap for the widest variety of RIG-based trailers, including outdated ICC bars, 4x4 RIGs and pentagonal RIGs, while also creating a 5-inch vertical barrier for obstructed RIGs.
• Widest Working Range
  • Spring-loaded structural hardened steel housing automatically positions when a backing trailer contacts the unit.
  • Engagement range extend from 9" to 30" above the ground, with the option for a 9" or 12" carriage.
  • Standard on 9" carriages, the dual articulating nose extension ensures widest range of coverage and helps protect the SHR-5100 from potential damage when servicing RIGs lower than 22" 
• Reliable Performance
  • Dual clad track with 50% more track strength helps minimize damage for heavy loading environments or aggressive pull-out attempts.
  • Full complement needle bearing carriage rollers and needle hook shaft bearings reinforce high-pressure points to reduce costly downtime and unplanned maintenance, especially in the event of an attempted premature pullout. 
  • If the hook is challenged while in operation, auto-refire technology helps to restore a safe, secure engagement.
  • All Dok-Lok vehicle restraints are certified to meet and exceed ANSI MH30.3 performance testing standards.
• Integrity of Installation
  • The enclosed, 5/16" (8mm) welded steel is designed and installed with (15) 5/8" wedge style anchor bolts and 22" of weld to front curb angle to receive the impact of trailers backing into position. 
  • Completed dock survey required for each dock position to help ensure safe and proper application of all Dok-Loks.
  • Rite-Hite's Standard Warranty includes 5-year parts / 3-year labor.
  • Extended Warranty includes 7-year parts / 5-year labor.
• Pull-Out Force Benchmarks
  • Rite-Hite was the first loading dock equipment manufacturer to establish pull-out force benchmarks based on years of research and development.
  • All Rite-Hite restraints are installed with more than 100,000 lbs. of mounting force and 32,000 lbs. of pull-out force — double what tractors can achieve in first gear. 
• Built for Harsh Environments
  • Military grade corrosion resistant finish on rotating hook track, base plate and housing maintains aesthetics while reducing the risk of rust for longer-lasting units. Successfully endures 1,000 hours of salt spray testing — compared to only 100 hours for galvanized restraints.
  • Mounted above ground away from dirt, debris, snow, ice and standing water.
  • IP-68, flood-protected chainless motor provides industry’s most protection against decline dock flooding in case of heavy rain fall, drainage system failures and more.

How clear is your communication at the loading dock?  

Rite-Hite's communication systems enhance Dok-Lok safety by clearly informing dock personnel when they can safely enter or exit a trailer - and truck drivers when they can depart after loading or unloading.

Operated from a NEMA 4x interior panel, the SHR-5100's standard Dok-Lok controls and Dok-Commander Combined Controls can interlock into a safe sequence of operations to help protect people, products and equipment by reducing human error and equipment faults. 

• Corner-Vu™
  • Two auxiliary LED light brackets mounted to upper corners on interior loading dock doors provide immediate line-of-sight vehicle restraint status to material handlers entering trailer. 
  • Mitigates risk of control box sight obstruction from pallets, personnel and forklifts. 
• Leveler-Vu™ 
  • Two auxiliary LED lights mounted alongside the loading dock leveler pit, provides immediate line-of-sight for Dok-Lok vehicle restraint status to material handlers exiting trailer.
  • Reduces unnecessary forklift traffic and miscommunication.
• Pedestrian-Vu™
  • Addresses forklift-pedestrian accidents, which account for 80% of all reported forklift accidents by extending the forklift's blue light.
  • Detects activity inside trailer with mounted sensors and emits intense blue light onto the leveler when motion is detected, communicating that dock personnel should proceed with caution.
  • Can be interlocked with any Dok-Lok to help prevent disengagement for added safety and sounds alarm if unrestrained trailer is entered. 
• Approach-Vu™
  • Visual and audible warning system activated by presence of backing vehicle in the drive approach, indicating need for pedestrians to safely vacate due to potential threat.
  • Available as standalone for facilities with simple wheel chocks or competitive units or embedded in VBR-350 housing. 
• Lok-Vu™
  • Lock verification system that utilizes an outside camera and inside monitor to show dock personnel when trailer arrives and is safely engaged or disengaged, reducing number of processes out on the dangerous drive approach.
  • Dual camera option allows dock personnel to also confirm trailer stand presence in the case of spotted (dropped) trailers. 
• Dok-Lok® Dock Timer
  • Real-time display of active or total (un) loading duration for each dock position, helping improve loading efficiency by increasing capacity and trailer throughput.
  • Integrate with trailer presence sensor to track duration from trailer arrival to Dok-Lok engagement via Rite-Hite ONE while also helping to keep boots off the ground to verify trailer arrival. 

Want more visibility into dock performance for safety and productivity?  

Dok-Lok Vehicle Restraints are Rite-Hite ONE-enabled. Connecting to this single Digital Platform provides real-time visibility and data to empower maintenance decisions, reduce inefficiencies and help mitigate safety events.  

• Safety. Real-time alerts delivered to any device to identify and stop unsafe behavior, such as:
  • Dok-Lok overrides and/or fault modes.
  • Employee entering an unrestrained trailer.
  • Dock door open but safety barrier not deployed.
• Productivity. Analytics gathered during each step of the loading process to identify bottlenecks and optimize operations, such as:
  
  • Total duration of loading, to help avoid detention costs.
  • Equipment utilization to determine under- or -over-usage. 
  • Trailer at dock but restraint not yet engaged.
• Uptime. Visibility into connected equipment status and service history, such as: 
  • Designate equipment state (out of service or immediate repair service required).
  • Equipment performance trending down (cycle counts, use, service history).
  • Document and log maintenance and services events.

What challenges do you face at your loading dock?

The SHR-5100 is built to withstand the most demanding, diverse loading dock applications with the following features:

Trailer types

• Shadow Hook for widest variety of RIG-based trailers, including standard over-the-road, pentagonal (5-sided), intermodal containers and obstructed RIGs

Dock environment

• Reinforced, high-pressure failure points with heavy-duty bearings and dual clad-track for demanding loads (Food and Beverage, Pulp and Paper, Glass and Automotive).
• Black military grade corrosion resistant finish for corrosive environments
• IP-68, flood protected chainless motor for docks at risk of flooding, such as declined docks.
• Off-ground, mounted carriage for ease of snow removal.

Loading style

• Rotating hook with widest wrap, helping address vertical separation accidents during dropped loading. 
• Rotating hook with widest wrap and standard vehicle restraint status communication, helping address horizontal separation accidents during live loading.

Labor and operations

• NEMA 4X control panel for powered (automatic) operation.
• Heavy-duty components and integrity of installation compatible with AGV/LGVs for automated (un)loading operations.
• Interlock capable controls for ease of training to mitigate high employee turnover.
• Interior mounted controls operated with the push of a button to Dok-Lok restraint and enhanced with optional trailer presence sensor and Lok-Vu to support boots-off-the-ground out on the dangerous drive approach.