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Time Is Money: How to Increase Efficiency and Reduce Delivery Costs

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Reducing delivery costs can be a challenge for any company. There are several ways that businesses can optimize deliveries to improve efficiency and reduce costs. Tools such as a motorized hand truck to organize inventory and load delivery trucks more efficiently and scheduling software to optimize delivery routes can be of great help. Motorized Hand Truck Increase Efficiency and Cut Down on Loading Time One of the best ways to save money is to cut down on time needed to load and unload orders. While using multiple people can make loading and unloading faster, it takes employees away from other tasks. Instead, start with a hand truck, which enables employees to stack items and move them quickly and efficiently. It's also wise to keep a hand truck in the delivery truck for moving the order once the driver is at the destination, especially if orders contain multiple items. For larger items, especially over longer distances from the warehouse to the delivery truck, use a powered ha

Common Material Handling Challenges and the Equipment You Need to Solve Them

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Material handling can prove to be challenging work for any business. First and foremost, there are safety concerns—ensuring that material handling personnel have the equipment necessary to remain as safe as possible. Increasing or maintaining the level of efficiency is an essential priority, as well. Doing what it takes to avoid or minimize damage to items is, likewise, always a priority. Having the proper equipment can prove to be an asset for navigating all of those challenges. Hand Trucks Challenge: Increasing Safety Ensuring that personnel are safe is always the top priority for any business. Having the proper material handling equipment on hand can contribute significantly to avoiding injuries. A simple example is providing hand trucks for employees to reduce the risk of strain while they move items. There are strain injuries that can be incurred from attempting to move something by hand that’s too heavy or awkwardly shaped. The most common workplace injuries are

How to Deal With Heavy Odd Jobs Around the Workplace

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When it comes to handling odd jobs around your workplace, whether it’s a restaurant or office, having the right equipment to deal with heavy tasks can be highly useful. Many businesses don’t have to worry about moving firewood around, but what about a restaurant or a barbecue joint? Here are a few tips for managing heavy odd jobs around your workplace.  Stair Climbing Dolly Bringing in Firewood If you have a wood-fired barbecue, a pizza oven, or a cozy fireplace at your workplace, such as in a restaurant, you may need to move around firewood. Carrying an armful of firewood is sometimes not easy, especially in bulk, and can result in splinters. Firewood can be large and heavy, but a fair amount is needed to start a fire or keep it going. A 2 wheel dolly can help, especially if you stack the firewood and strap it down, or have pre-made bundles of firewood you can stack. Moving Bags of Ice Handling multiple bags of ice can be challenging.  Between the long, odd shape of most ice ba

How Diversifying Your Material Handling Equipment Can Improve Efficiency

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Managing workflow and efficiency is a vital aspect of operating a warehouse, loading dock, or any other workplace that relies on material handling. Investing in solutions that contribute to greater efficiency is worthwhile because those benefits can trickle out to the entire inventory and delivery infrastructure. One practical solution that can boost efficiency is diversifying material handling equipment fleets. That includes expanding and updating traditional material handling equipment such as hand carts to assist delivery drivers. In the warehouse, adding a motorized hand truck selection to the tools that employees use to pick items and load trucks can be very helpful. Convertible Hand Truck More Diverse Tools for a Variety of Challenges For any business that relies on material handling, a variety of traditional, non-powered hand trucks can be considerable assets for improving efficiency and productivity. For instance, adding a stair climbing addition to a traditional hand truck