| Load per pallet | 800 kg / pallet |
|---|---|
| Storage logic | LIFO flow |
| Loading | forklift entry |
| Space saving | 30% space saved |
| Best fit | cold-storage fit |
When should I choose drive-in over selective?
When a single product occupies a large uniform lot that ships as a block and is built and pulled from one side — think aged product, cold store, or one-year AGM inventory ahead of a promotion — where a third more positions beats instant access to any one pallet.
How is FIFO done in a dense system?
A true FIFO dense lane uses a gravity or double-drive-through flow, not a single open bay; the QF-DR800 is a LIFO drive-in lane, so if your plan revolves around first-in-first-out, the flow rack is the matching dense alternative.
Definition
Drive-in racking is a flow-through beam system with no aisle between bays: the forklift drives into the rack depth to put away or withdraw pallets, sharing the storage volume itself as the access lane at the cost of LIFO-only selectivity.
The space it saves is the aisle space it sits in: with no gap between bays, cubic density climbs by a third while every pass still holds a forkful of identical product — the right rule only when the whole lot is the same SKU and opened and closed from one side.
What the missing aisle buys
A wide selective rack spends a full aisle of floor on every row; drive-in collapses those passages into the storage cells themselves, so the same wall can hold a third more pallets of one product. The trade is that the first pallet in is the last out, which is the classic LIFO deal and exactly why uniform lots that turn as a block suit it, while mixed or rotating stock quickly leaves required units buried behind a wall of them.
Space efficiency comes with a loading rule
Because the fork travels between rails to reach deep pallets, the product must stack as a column of identical footprints; a single oversized or broken pallet skews the lane and stalls the whole bay. The loading rule is simple — one SKU, one footprint, full-column — and the gain is the rack’s own rail geometry storing the deep positions that a selective system would turn into aisle.
All figures on this page are illustrative sample values, not measured specifications.