Freight facilities are the purest version of the door problem. A cross-dock has one job, moving trailers in and out, and the doors are the mechanism that job runs through. A closed dock position isn’t an inconvenience. It’s capacity you can’t get back.
All Pro Door Repair services transportation, logistics and freight facilities across Dallas-Fort Worth, which is one of the densest inland freight markets in the country. Here’s what matters on these buildings.
Dock doors and the cycle math
A cross-dock position can turn 30 to 60 trailers a day. Even at the low end that’s tens of thousands of cycles a year on a single door. Standard commercial torsion springs are commonly rated around 10,000 cycles, which means a door built to the base spec is out of spring life in a matter of months.
This is the thing worth fixing at the source. Re-springing to a high-cycle package sized to real traffic costs more once and stops the cycle of quarterly failures.
We repair and install:
- Sectional steel dock doors and rolling steel service doors
- High-cycle torsion spring packages
- Tracks, rollers, cables, hinges and bottom brackets
- Commercial operators including jackshaft units where headroom is limited
- Dock seals, shelters and bumpers
- Safety sensors, limiters and reversing systems
Details on our loading dock door repair page.
Impact damage is a scheduling problem, not an accident
Trailers back into doors. Forklifts clip bottom sections. Pallet jacks catch tracks. On a facility running real volume this isn’t a rare event, it’s a rate.
The right response is planning for it. A bent bottom section that still runs will drag the door out of alignment and wear the track, so catching it early is cheaper. Section replacement is often possible when damage is limited to one or two panels and the door is recent enough that sections are still available. When a door has taken enough hits that sections are discontinued, replacement is the better number.
Bumpers matter here more than people give them credit for. Worn bumpers stop absorbing trailer impact and the load transfers straight into the building and the door frame.
Personnel doors and driver entrances
Every freight facility has doors people use constantly: the driver check-in entrance, the dispatch office, the yard door out to the trailer lot. These run around the clock on a 24-hour operation and take weather from every direction across an open yard.
Closers give out. Exit devices wear until the latch stops throwing. Frames rack and doors stop sealing. And hollow metal frames rust at the floor line where water sits.
We repair and replace closers, pivots, exit devices, continuous hinges, hollow metal doors and frames, and aluminum storefront entries on the office side.
Glass at the check-in window and the front office
Freight buildings aren’t glass-heavy, but the glass they have is in the wrong place to ignore. The driver check-in window, the dispatch office, the front entry. A broken pane at a check-in window on a 24-hour operation is an opening you have to staff.
We handle commercial glass and glazing, emergency board-up and permanent replacement, and window security film for offices facing an open yard. Hail is a real exposure in North Texas and it takes out glass and door panels in the same storm.
Yard gates and site security
The trailer yard is the asset. Gates control it, and gates on freight yards run heavy traffic in both directions all day, get hit by trucks, and sit on ground that moves. DFW clay soil shifts through a dry summer, and a gate post that moves puts a slide gate out of alignment, which then destroys operators one after another.
We service commercial gates, operators, chains, sprockets, tracks and posts, and straightening the alignment is usually the repair that actually ends the problem.
Common questions from logistics and terminal managers
Our dock doors break springs constantly. What’s the real fix?
High-cycle springs rated for your actual daily cycle count. Base commercial spring packages aren’t built for cross-dock traffic, and no amount of good installation changes the rating.
How fast can you get a dock position back in service?
Our trucks carry a full selection of parts, so most calls resolve on the first visit rather than a second trip. We also answer emergency calls 24/7, which matters on operations that don’t stop.
Can you replace a damaged section instead of the full door?
Often yes, if the damage is contained and sections are still available for that door. We’ll tell you honestly when replacement is the better value.
Do you handle dock seals and bumpers, or only the door?
Both. Seals, shelters and bumpers are part of the dock package and they affect how long the door lasts.
Get a dock line assessment in DFW
All Pro Door Repair has been family owned and operated since 2001, fully insured, with technicians who each carry at least five years of field experience. We answer emergency calls around the clock because freight doesn’t run on business hours.
Call (972) 624-1515 or request a free estimate.