What is a High Lift Pallet Truck?

A High Lift Pallet Truck is similar to “standard” manual pallet trucks in that it can transport your pallets around your warehouse, but it also provides the ability to lift the pallet to around waist height. This makes them the perfect partner for those involved in picking tasks, whereby they are transferring items from one place to another, for example from a conveyor belt to a pallet prior to the items storage or despatch.
A key consideration to bear in mind when deciding if a High Lift Pallet Truck is right for your application is the type of Pallets that you intend to use it with, as High Lift Pallet Trucks are ideally used with open bottomed pallets such as Euro Pallets. This is due to the way in which high lift pallet trucks lift pallets, they have “scissor” legs beneath their pallet forks, these scissor legs would clash with closed bottomed pallets but are ideal for use with Euro Pallets.

Benefits of using a High Lift Pallet Truck

The main benefit of using a High Lift Pallet Truck comes from the convenience of being able to not only raise your palletised load but also easily adjust its height to the user’s preference. The positive effect of this being that when used the operator can adjust the height of the palletised load to a comfortable height so when picking items they do not have to keep bending over to lift items to/from the pallet, thus helping decrease work related injury whilst increasing productivity, through economy of motion.
High Lift Pallet Trucks are also easy to use and maintain plus do not require an operator’s licence.
The Humble High Lift Pallet Truck then, provides arguably the most economical solution to raising your pallets higher than a standard Pallet Truck making them a versatile and inexpensive asset for your warehousing and logistics operation.

Our High Lift Pallet Trucks are of high quality and are CE Marked; however as with all Manual Handling Equipment we recommend that organisations have their own Health & Safety Risk Assessment conducted prior to the use of any High Lift Pallet Truck, to ensure suitability of application, operators, and working environment, etc.