Cargo body wall with logistics tracks
A cargo body wall including an interior side defining an interior plane for facing a cargo receiving volume, and an exterior side. A primary logistics track is elongated in a first direction and situated in the cargo body wall, and a secondary logistics track is elongated in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The primary logistics track includes first and second inward expansions projecting inward of the interior plane, each of the first and second inward expansions having at least one opening therein providing access to a logistics fitting accommodation area within the cargo body wall. The secondary logistics track is arranged to cross the primary logistics track at a position between the first and second inward expansions.
1. A cargo body wall configured to provide an upstanding vertical wall of a transport cargo body, the cargo body wall comprising:
an interior side provided by one or more panels for facing a cargo area of the cargo body, the interior side defining a wall plane;
wherein the interior side includes a network of overlapping vertical and horizontal logistics tracks, including nested logistics tracks set into the interior side of the cargo body wall and surface-mount tracks,
wherein profiles of both the nested logistics tracks and the surface-mount logistics tracks include portions that protrude from the wall plane, and
wherein the surface-mount logistics tracks lie flush against the nested logistics tracks and flush against the one or more panels.
2. The cargo body wall of claim 1 , wherein the surface-mount logistics tracks are positioned on flat portions of the nested logistics tracks that are provided between adjacent inward expansions of the nested logistics tracks.
3. The cargo body wall of claim 2 , wherein, within the inward expansions, an entire material thickness of the nested logistics tracks is positioned inward of the wall plane.
4. The cargo body wall of claim 1 , wherein the cargo body wall has a height and a length that exceeds the height, and wherein the nested logistics tracks extend vertically along the height.
5. The cargo body wall of claim 4 , wherein the network of overlapping vertical and horizontal logistics tracks includes ones of the surface-mount tracks at at least two different vertical heights along the vertically-extending nested logistics tracks.
6. The cargo body wall of claim 1 , wherein the surface-mount logistics tracks have, in a cross-section taken perpendicular to an elongated length direction thereof, a hat-shape profile including two edge flanges and a raised central portion therebetween, the raised central portion having at least one opening therein providing access to a logistics fitting accommodation area situated between the raised central portion and the wall plane.
7. The cargo body wall of claim 1 , wherein the nested logistics tracks each include at least one opening therein providing access to a logistics fitting accommodation area within the cargo body wall.
8. The cargo body wall of claim 1 , wherein a first one of the nested logistics tracks forms part of a splice joint between a first panel and a second panel of the one or more panels, and a second one of the nested logistics tracks is supported in a mid-panel recess on an interior side of a continuous section of the first panel.
9. The cargo body wall of claim 8 , wherein the continuous section of the first panel includes an offset portion that forms an outward protrusion along an exterior side.
10. The cargo body wall of claim 1 , wherein the nested logistics tracks are metal stampings.