Pallet jack

A truck is an industrial device with or without electric drive. With him Pallets, box pallets and appropriate supporting tools can be transported on a level surface. Another name is Ant, a trademark of Jungheinrich.

A truck has two metal tines ( fork), which can be pushed under the pallet. The metal tines can be adjusted in height; so that the pallet can be lifted for freighting. Front under the tines are rigid load rollers, on the other hand, one or two steerable wheels mounted. The handle is used for moving and steering as well as non-powered devices as a lever for a hydraulic pump that feeds the lift cylinder. The handle or near the steering axis is the control option for the hydraulic valve ( lift / drive / lowering ). Electric pallet trucks followed by further Shifters the operator.

Equipped with load cells trucks serve as a mobile scale.

Demarcation to the forklift

Trucks differ from forklifts primarily by the fact that the center of gravity is within the vehicle contour and thus attributable in those necessary counterbalance. The operator usually runs alongside or stands on a platform attached to the truck as it sits in the truck. However, there are also electric pallet truck, where the driver mitfährt sitting and controls it as a stacker. Trucks are compact, lighter and more agile than a forklift. Hand pallet truck without motor can also be used on the loading of trucks. In conjunction with a liftgate ( = tail lift ) so you can carry cargo from the loading area to the flat earth.

Load trucks

Pallet truck only allow walk-in process of the pallets as they can be lifted with high-lift trucks also on bookshelves or other raised surfaces lying; using double-decker trucks to other pallets.

Hand pallet truck

A long lever handle ( pole ) is used for steering and for raising the entire truck relative to the rollers by a hydraulic cylinder. By raising and lowering the lever, the hydraulic pump is driven. To drain is usually a lever to pull on the handle of the lift truck. Hand pallet truck are handy and relatively lightweight ( less than 100 kg). The load can be pulled or pushed. The lifting capacities ranging from 2.0 t (standard equipment ) up to max. 10 t with manual devices. The standard length is 1150 mm for Euro pallets or 800 mm in the lateral pallet entry. The truck is only intended for the storage or repositioning of pallets and not for the transport of persons. Colloquially, hand pallet truck are partly regionally referred to as lizard or ant.

Electric pallet truck

Electric lift trucks, some with standing room, reduce the effort of the operator and can also carry higher payloads. The electrical operation supports the drive or lifting the load or both.

Security

• In Germany an annual safety inspections ( for Policies of the professional associations ) are prescribed for the electric pallet truck.

• A certificate of competence (ticket ) for guiding electric pallet truck is not necessary, when the truck called by a mitgehenden driver, even pedestrian controlled. It is in accordance with in this case. berufsgenossenschaftlichem principle BGG 925 an instruction of the driver in the handling of the truck enough. The driver assignment need not be in writing in this case.

Low-floor trucks

A low-floor lift truck is a truck with be lowered and liftable loader. He can sell the containers or other structures to the flat earth or lift up to 1.5 meters.