Abstract: A process and apparatus to pickup, stack and transport bales and other boxed or contained commodities. The invention is a flat bed vehicle and process which utilize a boom mounted on a vehicle which allow the vehicle to arrange itself adjacent the object to be picked up, lower the boom to attach to the object and to then raise and rotate it to a position where it can be lowered onto the flat bed portion of the vehicle. The invention further provides for the arrangement of the bales or other objects such that when the flat bed is tilted to a substantially vertical position and moved away, the bales or boxes that were arranged horizontally on the flatbed are stacked vertically.