Yes , when the ramps are raised , the tong in the middle is raised so a push truck can pull up to and push . I spent a lot of time driving the push truck . Some guy's hated being in the push truck . In the Winter time there was lots of mud spray flying around , in the Summer the dust was so thick you could barely see loading ramps . the trick was to stay with truck bumper against the lowbeds push bar . if you got a couple of feet back from push bar and the lowbed driver braked , the push truck driver was going through the windshield . In the Summer time if you got a few feet back of the push bar , the push truck driver was blind in the cloud of dust , all you could do is come to a complete stop until the dust cleared , then catch the lowbed on the next hill . Tom Worth was the lowbed driver in Renfrew Div. , he was great to work with , he would let me use more power than he did until we got into hard up hill grades . When we started down hill grades and I felt him brake , I would back off . When we got off the hill he would let me build up power before he started pulling . That way I was always against the push bar . We use to make amazing time with a Madill or Cypress Grapple Yarder or Super Snorkel on board . The Hayes HDX's use to be a better push truck on switch backs than the P 16 Pacific's as the front fenders on the Pacific's stuck out so far , they could get hung up on the lowbed ramps on a tight corner .