Patent ID: 8070414

Claim:
A method comprising the steps of: moving a tail section of a container support platform of a wheeled vehicle relative to a forward section of the container support platform from a home position in which it is adapted to support a container to a non-home position in which it is at least one of forward of the home position and lower than the home position; and lifting and moving the container with an onboard container lift assembly of the wheeled vehicle while the tail section is in its non-home position and while the first container is hanging in air from the container lift assembly in one of a loading direction adapted to move the container from an unloaded position behind the vehicle to a loaded position atop the support platform of the vehicle and an unloading direction adapted to move the container from the loaded position to the unloaded position so that the container does not contact the tail section as the container is moved to and from the support platform.