Patent ID: 8200363

Claim:
A delivery vehicle having a parked mode and a travel mode for delivering goods to specific locations, comprising: a trailer frame having a longitudinal axis and including at least one door for substantially closing an opening in the trailer when the door is in the closed position and opening for access to the goods within the trailer frame when in the open position; a powered carousel rotatably mounted within the trailer frame, the carousel rotatable about a carousel axis substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis, the powered carousel including a plurality of circumferentially spaced supports each radially outward from the carriage axis for supporting goods thereon, each support having an unloading position and circumferentially spaced storage position; a computer receiving a storage location signal indicating the location of specific goods supported on a specific one of a plurality of circumferentially spaced supports; a vehicle location signal indicative of the vehicle being in the parked mode at a specific location; a sensor outputting a door closed signal responsive to the at least one door being in the closed position; a controller responsive to the storage location signal, the vehicle location signal, and the door closed signal for rotating the carousel so that the specific goods on the one of the plurality of circumferentially spaced supports are rotated to the unloading position for delivery of the good to the specific location when the door is in the door closed position.