Abstract: In a system for handling goods on carriers for combined railway and overland transportation, the use of a truck having its own pulling/pushing device for pulling/pushing the carriers in the longitudinal direction of the truck from a railway car, across the latter and over onto the truck's platform and the other way around. The carriers have connecting means for coupling with the pulling/pushing device. The truck has a carrying platform which can be raised and lowered to adjust the height of the railway car's loading platform.