Loading and unloading platform to be applied to the body of industrial transportvehicles

This invention concerns a loading and unloading platform to be applied to the body of a transport vehicle, particularly for the transportation of live animals. It consists of a platform floor (14) placed between and guided by two vertical sliding groups (13), fixed to the body but physically independent of one another, there being no crossbars connecting them. The platform floor (14) is free of all rigid fastening to said vertical sliding groups (13), being coupled to them only by means of hinge pins (21, 21', 22) and it can be lowered from a rest position to a horizontal or inclined working position by means of hydraulic devices.