Truck Loading Skid Systems
Excel Loading Systems designs and fabricates custom truck loading skid systems for petroleum terminals, chemical facilities, renewable fuel plants, tank farms, and industrial loading operations. Our skid-mounted loading systems combine loading arms, metering, pumps, controls, grounding, overfill protection, piping, and safety equipment into a single integrated loading rack package — reducing installation time, improving startup performance, and simplifying long-term maintenance.
By fabricating and assembling these systems in a controlled manufacturing environment, Excel Loading Systems delivers a higher-quality solution than traditional field-built installations.
Each skid is engineered to your specifications and can be supplied as a complete package — including metering equipment, pumps, valves, instrumentation, controls, piping, and structural steel fabrication.
What Is a Truck Loading Skid?
A truck loading skid is a modular fluid transfer system that consolidates loading equipment, instrumentation, controls, and piping onto a single structural steel skid. These systems are designed to accelerate project schedules, reduce field labor costs, improve installation quality, minimize startup issues, and simplify future maintenance.
Truck loading skids are commonly used when loading:
- Gasoline
- Diesel
- Ethanol
- Renewable diesel
- Biodiesel
- Aviation fuel
- Lubricants
- Chemicals
- Specialty fluids
Complete Loading System Integration
Unlike many skid fabricators, Excel Loading Systems manufactures and integrates many of the core components used within loading terminals:
Top Loading Arms
Designed for loading tank trucks, railcars, and specialty vehicles. Benefits include reduced emissions, improved operator safety, increased loading efficiency, and long service life. Learn more about our Top Loading Arms
Bottom Loading Arms
Bottom loading systems provide fast, safe product transfer while minimizing vapor release and operator exposure — ideal for refined fuel terminals, chemical terminals, and renewable fuel operations. Learn more about our Bottom Loading Arms
API Couplers
Available for secure product transfer in terminal loading applications, offering leak reduction, improved operator safety, and reliable connection integrity. See our API Couplers
Swivel Joints
Manufactured in carbon steel, stainless steel, PTFE-lined, cryogenic service, and high-pressure service configurations. See our Swivel Joints
Metering, Pumping, and Safety Integration
Metering Integration
Truck loading skids can be supplied with positive displacement meters, Coriolis meters, turbine meters, ultrasonic meters, and batch controllers for custody transfer, product accountability, inventory management, and blending operations. (See our Custody Transfer Metering Skids page for more detail.)
Pumping Systems
Excel Loading Systems integrates centrifugal pumps, positive displacement pumps, booster pumps, and loading pumps engineered around your flow rate, product characteristics, and operating requirements.
Grounding and Safety Systems
Truck loading skids can include ground verification systems, static grounding equipment, overfill prevention systems, emergency shutdown systems, and safety interlocks to improve operator safety and support regulatory compliance.
Vapor Recovery Integration
Available vapor recovery connections, piping, and control systems support emissions reduction at petroleum terminals and chemical loading facilities.
Controls and Automation
Truck loading skids may be supplied with PLC control systems for automated loading sequences, safety interlocks, alarm management, and batch control; HMI operator stations for real-time flow rate, tank status, and alarm monitoring; and remote monitoring through SCADA and terminal automation systems.
Industries Served
Excel Loading Systems provides truck loading skid systems for:
- Petroleum terminals
- Chemical processing
- Renewable fuels
- Tank farms
- Refineries
- Pipeline facilities
- Industrial manufacturing
Why Choose Excel Loading Systems?
Most skid manufacturers specialize only in piping and structural fabrication. Excel Loading Systems combines skid fabrication expertise with decades of experience designing and manufacturing loading arms, swivels, fluid transfer systems, and terminal loading equipment — allowing you to source a complete, integrated loading solution from a single supplier instead of coordinating multiple vendors.
Benefits include single-source responsibility, faster project execution, reduced installation costs, improved system reliability, and simplified maintenance. Explore our complete Loading Systems and Modular Process Skid Systems offerings for related solutions.
Looking for a truck loading skid manufacturer?
Contact Excel Loading Systems to discuss your loading application, flow requirements, metering needs, safety systems, automation requirements, and project schedule. Our engineering and fabrication team can develop a custom truck loading skid system designed specifically for your operation.
