Patent ID: 7552687

Claim:
A method of transporting a cargo, comprising the steps of: a) providing a frame having a front, a rear, and upper and lower end portions the lower end portion having a perimeter beam base, a raised floor, and a pair of open ended parallel fork lift tine tubes that communicate with the perimeter beam base at the front and rear of the frame, the frame including a plurality of side walls that attach to and extend upwardly from the perimeter beam base and including at least left and right side walls, at least some of the side walls having corner columns, intermediate columns, and reinforcing that connects each intermediate column to a corner column; b) movably attaching one or more gates to the frame in between a corner column and an intermediate column; c) aligning the fork lift tines of a fork lift with the sockets and lifting and transporting the frame with the fork lift; d) wherein in steps “a” and “b” a plurality of said gates are movably mounted to the frame said gates being positioned at the front and at the rear of the frame, each gate being movable between open and closed positions, the gates enabling a fork lift to place a load module on the raised floor by accessing the frame floor when a door is in the open position; e) opening one of the doors; f) lifting each of a plurality of load modules with a fork lift; g) laterally moving the lifted load module in step “e” from a position outside of the frame to a position inside the frame via the open door; and h) lifting the frame and a plurality of the load modules after step “f”.