For example, the rack body truck would be used for situations that require side loading of the use of cranes to remove a load. The passenger vans, that are controlled by Transportation, are borrowed by various departments to handle their specific transportation needs. The department completes approximately 3,000 vendor deliveries from the warehouse to the on campus location. A vendor delivery is considered to be the delivery of a product or piece of equipment, etc,. which is delivered to the warehouse and then transported to the campus location by the Transportation staff. An example of this type of delivery would be when a piece of equipment is shipped to 1 Marbury Terrace, but the ordering department is in Richards Hall.
Transportation completes the delivery process.
The department completes approximately 2,400 warehouse deliveries to on campus locations. These are deliveries where a product has been at the warehouse for a period of time and is then moved to the on campus location as required by the University departments. An example of this type of delivery would be the delivery of paper goods which are stored at the warehouse by the Building Services Department. The department completes approximately 2,900 internal deliveries from one campus location to another campus location. This type of delivery could involve the moving of furniture form one office area to another, or moving furniture to provide space for various contractors to do work such as carpet replacement, office, classroom, or laboratory renovations.