ascent the stairway configuration from a lower elevation 12 to an upper elevation 14 or to descend from an upper elevation 14 to a lower elevation 12 the ramp like configuration in fig2 and 4 described in detail hereinafter provide a means for transporting loads in wheeled vehicles over the ramp like configuration from a lower elevation 12 to an upper elevation 14 or from an upper elevation 14 to a lower elevation 12 the lower elevation 12 and the upper elevation 13 may be of such structure as the floors in a building the device for transporting loads 10 between various elevations is suitably enclosed at the sides 16 and 18 such enclosure sides 16 and 18 may be walls of the general structure in which the device for transporting loads 10 between the afore mentioned elevations where the enclosed sides 16 and 18 are walls of the general structure the mechanisms described in detail hereinafter are suitably located within such walls where the enclosed sides 16 and 18 are mechanism enclosures of the device for transporting loads 10 the enclosured sides 16 and 18 serve a safety purpose to prevent persons or loads falling from the sides in the latter case the enclosured sides 16 and 18 may be configured similar to low banister walls such as.