Patent ID: 8495961

Claim:
A shipping system comprising: a base deck section forming a load supporting deck; an upper-tier deck section forming a second load supporting deck; legs; and pivot rods; the pivot rods connected to the legs and deck sections, and the pivot rods providing for pivoting the legs and upper-tier deck section about the base deck section, in a range of positions; whereby through pivoting of the legs and upper-tier deck section, the shipping system may be moved through configurations including a collapsed configuration, a folded back and load-ready configuration, and an upper-tier raised configuration, the collapsed configuration for stowing, the folded back and load-ready configuration for receiving a load on the base deck section, and the upper-tier raised configuration for outgoing shipping with one or more loads in place in which the base deck section is formed to allow a second improved shipping system to be nested on top of the first for ease of shipping when the first is in a collapsed configuration, and a third shipping system to be nested atop the second, and so forth.