The use of warehouse trolleys is a must for the warehouses. They can be used effectively for transporting various items. If you consider buying them then you have to first look at the types of trolleys available in the market. Indeed there are lots of different trolleys based on the type of shape and size they have. You can consider buying one or more types of trolleys from the list of trolleys mentioned below. The two most important factors to consider here are your budget and the type of goods and materials that will be transported in them.
Platform trolleys
These warehouse trolleys are extensively used in all warehouses, godowns, storerooms, etc. Apart from the warehouses, they are also used in ports, docks, and railways stations. They are effective for transporting heavyweight materials like luggage bags, engineering goods, machine parts heavy devices, construction items like cement bags, etc. They have high load rating capacity. The problem is that you don’t get any type of safety feature like no side rails from preventing the goods from falling over. They are only good for use in flat surfaces that do not have any slopes.
Order picking trolleys
These trolleys are used in godowns and storerooms for food and other staple items. You must have seen them too. They are used for transporting heavy bags of food items, jars, bottles, cans, boxes, nesting crates, etc. Apart from warehouse trolleys they also find use in shopping malls, airports, railway stations, etc. The advantage of using these types of trolleys is that the sides of the load platform are covered with steel beams to ensure that the items do not fall. They are made from a combination of steel and fiber items. But they do not have a high load-bearing capacity similar to those of platform trolleys. They are good for transporting medium to light heavyweight items.
Hand trolleys or hand trucks
Hand trucks are an efficient way to transfer heavy items. They have a platform on which the load boxes can be stacked on top of each other. If you want you can consider buying the warehouse trolleys Sydney and trucks that can be automated with buttons and switches that control two hinges for lifting and lowering load items. But the problem is that they are not suitable for use in small warehouses where obstruction and floor space are common problems. Unless you have a large floor space things can get easily congested. And this can lead to a collision with other workers and even goods and result in damage to goods and injuries to workers.
Multi-tier trolleys
These are similar to the order picking trolleys and are used for lightweight material and goods transporting. The advantage over the order picking trolleys is that the multi-tier trolleys have several racks and shelves that are covered using side beams. Thus you can transport a lot of small to medium-sized items at once.
The problem is that they do not have a much high load rating capacity. They are not good enough for transporting heavyweight and large items. Apart from the warehouses, they are extensively used in airports, storerooms, carrying luggage, etc.
Office trolleys
Have you seen the various types of office trolleys being used? These trolleys are used in offices and office canteens. These are good enough for transporting the medium to lightweight items only. These could include all types of important office items such as boxes, papers, books, magazines, folders, and all other types of stationery items.
Office trolleys are not at all suitable for transporting heavyweight items. But an added advantage is that here you can buy the foldable plastic trolleys too to efficiently managing floor space. They have very limited use as warehouse trolleys. The might be used sometimes in the godowns and warehouses for transporting lightweight materials as mentioned above.
Industrial dollies
Industrial dollies are also a type of warehouse trolleys. They also fall in the category of trolleys but they rarely look like one. They are just made of supporting frames and below them are the tires. You can use them for transporting any type of large to medium type item or a stackable item such as bins, crates, dishes, etc. They have supporting rivets at the sides to ensure safety during operation.
Using extra accessory items within your trolleys
If you want to additionally add safety while transporting goods and items you can also buy and use safety straps, and bands to secure the load tightly in place. Or else if you need extra load space then consider buying ones with extra foldable racks or extendable platforms.