For indoor loading, a fixed ramp/platform combination was specified, enabling trucks to reverse up to the loading bay so that goods can be swiftly and safely unloaded directly into the warehouse.

Outdoors, Thorworld recommended the use of a mobile yardramp.  While this is generally to be used in a fixed position, with alignment curbs installed to assist lorries into reversing into the correct position, the advantage of a mobile ramp is its portability.