Associated Monster GT's now shipping to stores

[TheJANG]

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(photo courtesy of Team Associated)

The long-awaited Monster GT's have been shipped to distributors and will soon be showing up at hobby shops and online retailers across the country.

[gabrill]

All their shipping promo photos show them as loading from the ground instead of a dock. Is this just advertising? How in the world do they load more than two pallets?

I'm just curious because I load those ABF short trailers as part of my job in a warehouse. We load from a dock and the lift drives in an out of the trailer.

[TheJANG]

The kits were assembled out of state. Associated has them first shipped to a warehouse under their jurisdiction for accounting purposes. Associated then loads them onto trucks for shipping to the major distributors. They have a motorized floor lift (don't know the proper term) on the truck to move the pallets forward.

[gabrill]

That makes sense. Just not quite as efficient as a dedicated loading dock with a fold out bridge.