Your warehouse floor is maxed out, but your ceiling is empty. Traditional floor stacking is crushing your profits by damaging the very tires you sell. The endless cycle of manual restacking to find a specific SKU isn't just slow—it's a direct hit to your bottom line and a major safety hazard. There is a more profitable way to use your existing space.
In the tire industry, floor space is a constant battle. The default method—interlacing tires in a "barrel stack" or weaving them into a pyramid—seems like a space-saver at first glance. However, this approach silently drains your profitability. Tires are not designed to be load-bearing structures. When you stack them 10-15 feet high, the bottom layers bear immense weight from multiple angles, leading to two critical, irreversible types of damage:
Beyond direct product loss, this method creates operational chaos. Need to retrieve a specific set of winter tires from the bottom of a stack? Your team must manually handle hundreds of heavy tires, a time-consuming and high-risk task for back injuries. This is not efficient warehousing; it's a daily logistical nightmare.
The solution is to fundamentally change the load-bearing logic. Instead of letting your valuable inventory support the weight, you introduce a dedicated steel skeleton. This is the principle behind the Derack system—a network of modular, portable stack racks that function as individual, moveable columns of a high-density warehouse.
Here's how it directly solves the tire industry's core challenges:
A one-size-fits-all approach doesn't work for tires. A passenger car tire (PCR) has vastly different dimensions and weight than a heavy truck or bus tire (TBR). A truly effective system must be engineered to handle this diversity. Our heavy duty stack racks are designed with specific geometries in mind:
This specialized design ensures that no matter your product mix, you achieve the maximum storage density safely. The open framework also improves fire safety, allowing sprinkler systems to penetrate the stack, a critical advantage over solid, dense piles of rubber.
These pallet stillages are not just static storage—they are a key component of a dynamic, returnable logistics system. The posts are fully removable. When a rack is empty, the posts can be stored on the base, and the bases can be "nested" or stacked together.
What does this mean for your operations?
Absolutely. We design and manufacture heavy duty stack racks specifically for OTR, agricultural, and TBR applications. The load capacity can be engineered to your specifications, often exceeding 4,000 lbs per rack, by using thicker gauge steel and reinforced base structures.
They improve safety in several ways. First, they create stable, engineered stacks that eliminate the risk of tire pile collapses. Second, they allow forklifts to do all the heavy lifting, drastically reducing manual handling and the associated risk of musculoskeletal injuries. Finally, their open design improves visibility for forklift operators and allows for better coverage by fire suppression systems.
No. Our portable stack racks are designed with standard 4-way or 2-way fork pockets compatible with virtually all standard counterbalance or reach truck forklifts. The cup feet on top of the posts act as a guide, making stacking safe and easy for trained operators.
There is no comparison. A wooden pallet might last for 10-15 trips before it splinters, cracks, or becomes unsafe. Our powder-coated or hot-dip galvanized steel racks are built to withstand harsh industrial environments for over 15-20 years. The total cost of ownership is significantly lower, and they retain a high scrap value at the end of their life.
They are the perfect fit. Unlike bolted-down pallet racking, these are portable stack racks. When your inventory levels are low during the off-season, you can nest the empty racks and consolidate them in a small corner, freeing up valuable floor space for other operations like cross-docking or quality inspection. This flexibility is impossible with fixed racking systems.
