Lift gates are usually not required by companies with a forklift or shipping dock. With shipping docks, trucks can be backed up to the platform and unloaded; it does not need to be adjusted to the ground first. Companies with forklifts also don’t regularly need lift gates since the forklift can raise and lower pallets from the freight on its own. Most of the time, lift gate services are aimed at businesses that don’t have a forklift or shipping dock on the origin or receiving end of a shipment.