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Driver Cages & Building Access Cages

Driver access cages give truck drivers, delivery drivers and vendors a secure place to wait and hand off paperwork without entering active warehouse or production areas. They keep visitors clear of forklift traffic and...

Woven Wire Partition System

Driver and Building Access Cages

Driver access cages provide a secure entry point that protects both your facility and non-employee visitors such as truck drivers, delivery personnel, and vendors. By restricting access to active warehouse and production areas, these cages reduce the risk of accidents involving untrained individuals entering hazardous zones with forklift traffic or automated machinery.

Driver access cages also deter unauthorized access to inventory and equipment, helping safeguard valuable assets and minimize liability risk.

Driver and Building Access Cage
Driver and Building Access Cage
Typical Building Access Cage Configuration

How It Works

Typical Building Access Cage Configuration

Driver Access Cages, also known as man traps, are typically three-sided enclosures built against an exterior wall with a secured entry door. Constructed using the woven wire partition system, these cages feature heavy-duty 10-gauge wire in a 2" x 1" rectangular mesh, providing industrial-grade security.

Standard sizes range from 6' x 6' to 8' x 8', with custom configurations available in one-foot increments. Each cage is usually outfitted with a service window and shelf, offering a designated counter for drivers to sign and retrieve documents. A pedestrian hinge door provides access, with a full-width push bar on the facility side for emergency or routine exit.

Applications

Where Driver Cages Are Used

Distribution Centres

Dock-side driver cages keep carrier drivers at the paperwork counter instead of walking live forklift aisles during loading.

Manufacturing Plants

Building access cages separate vendors, contractors and delivery personnel from automated lines and production floor traffic.

3PL & Fulfilment

High-turnover sites use driver cages to control who reaches inventory when carriers change shift to shift.

Why Driver Cages

Built to keep people and inventory apart

Protect Visitors

Driver access cages prevent untrained visitors from entering forklift zones or automated work areas, reducing the risk of accidents and enhancing facility safety.

Custom Configurations

Driver access cages are available in any size and can be installed as free-standing units or anchored to existing building walls to suit your facility layout.

Service Windows

Driver access cages are commonly equipped with a service window and shelf, providing a convenient counter for drivers to sign documents and collect paperwork without entering the main facility.

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Control Building Access

Control Building Access

Driver access cages are a straightforward, cost-effective way to control who reaches your distribution center, warehouse, or factory floor. By enclosing the entry point with wire mesh partitions, you keep truck drivers, delivery personnel, and vendors inside a defined area and out of the aisles where forklifts and automated equipment are running. Nobody wanders onto the production floor, and nobody has unescorted access to inventory sitting near the dock.

Each cage is sized to your opening and installs either free-standing or anchored to existing building walls, so it drops into the layout you already have instead of forcing a remodel. Add a service window and shelf for paperwork, a coded push-button entry lock, or a remote latch release, and the cage handles routine deliveries on its own. Your team keeps working while drivers check in, sign for freight, and stay exactly where they are supposed to be.

Built to Industrial Spec

Built to Industrial Spec

Every driver cage is built on the woven wire partition system, the same welded and woven wire construction used in high-security tool cribs and DEA drug storage cages. Panels are heavy 10-gauge wire in a 2 inch by 1 inch rectangular mesh, mounted on 2 inch square steel posts with welded base plates that lag directly to the concrete. It is a real structural enclosure, not a temporary screen.

Posts are set no more than 10 feet apart, and every panel carries horizontal reinforcement at least every 60 inches, so the enclosure stays square and rigid under daily forklift traffic, cart impacts, and the constant open-and-close of a working dock. The whole system bolts together, which means it can be expanded, reconfigured, or relocated as your floor plan changes, without the cost or lead time of block or stud walls.

Driver Cages & Building Access Cages

Key Features

  • Full-width push bar on the warehouse side for safe and quick exit
  • Service window with integrated shelf for document handoff
  • Optional coded push-button entry lock for controlled access
  • Optional remote-controlled electric latch release for convenience
  • Panels constructed from 10-gauge wire with 2" x 1" rectangular mesh for durability
  • 2" square steel support posts with welded base plates for floor anchoring
  • Post spacing does not exceed 10 feet for structural stability
  • Horizontal reinforcement of at least 1-1/2" every 60 inches for added rigidity

Frequently Asked Questions

A driver access cage, also called a man trap, is a wire mesh enclosure at a building entry point that keeps truck drivers and other non-employee visitors in a defined, secured area. It is typically a three-sided enclosure built against an exterior wall with a secured entry door.
Standard sizes range from 6' x 6' to 8' x 8', with custom configurations available in one-foot increments to fit any space. Cages can be free-standing or anchored to existing building walls.
Each cage is usually outfitted with a service window and shelf, giving drivers a designated counter to sign and retrieve documents without entering the facility.
Yes. A pedestrian hinge door provides access, with a full-width push bar on the facility side for emergency or routine exit. The interior side of the door includes a keyed lock so visitors remain in the secure area.
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