Material Handling Solutions to Make Appliance and Furniture Delivery Easier in Winter

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Winter is often the most challenging part of the year for appliance and furniture delivery crews. The greatest and most common difficulty those crews encounter during the winter months, of course, tends to be the weather. Snow and ice not only make the delivery of large, heavy loads like furniture and appliances more difficult, they also make it more dangerous. Investing in the right material handling solutions, like customization and adding a powered hand truck to the equipment in the warehouse or on-site, can result in safer and more efficient winter delivery.

Powered Hand Truck

Upgrade to an Appliance Hand Truck

The traditional hand truck is a versatile workhorse and the delivery driver’s best friend. For moving furniture, appliances, and other large loads, however, they’re simply not the best tool for the job. If your delivery drivers still have traditional hand trucks in their delivery vans or trucks, upgrading to an appliance hand truck, aka heavy duty hand truck, is the first priority.

 Choose the Right Appliance Hand Truck

Equipping delivery drivers with high-quality name-brand gear is a must. A sturdy, quality appliance hand truck is likely to be a safer, more reliable, and more efficient choice for the delivery drivers. Additionally, investing in a name brand hand truck from an established material handling business is going to allow for a degree of customization that an off-brand dolly simply can’t touch. For example, Magliner hand trucks can be customized in something like four million different combinations.

 Customize the Appliance Hand Truck for Transport

The option for that level of customization is essential for optimally winterizing an appliance hand truck. For instance, those hand trucks’ traction and winter transportation capability can be upgraded with either air filled or microcellular foam filled treaded tires. Swapping out the hand truck’s platform or nose with one that’s deeper and wider may provide better purchase for deliveries. If a delivery requires maneuvering furniture or appliances up or down staircases, adding a stair climber or stair crawler attachment will likely improve safety and efficiency.

 Customize the Appliance Hand Truck for Stability

In addition to winter conditions making the moving of large and heavy loads more strenuous, they can also make load stability a real challenge. And depending on the size of the load, stability issues can also pose a safety risk. Features like brakes and retractable straps are effective stability aids, though there’s little that can match the addition of a 4th wheel attachment as a stability solution.

 Consider a Powered Hand Truck On-Site

It’s not just the weather that’s responsible for the challenges winter poses in the delivery industry. Winter also means the holiday season rush and can result in a higher volume of delivery requests as the temperature drops. That’s especially true in this age of online shopping. Adding a powered hand truck to the material handling equipment in the warehouse or otherwise on-site may prove an effective solution for responding to those challenges.

 About Magline

For upwards of 70 years, the Magliner name has represented a high standard of quality in the material handling industry. The name stands for tools known for their ease of use and reliability across many industries. In the material handling industry, the Magliner name is so common that it is used as shorthand for any hand truck, regardless of brand. Unfortunately for other brands, there is only one Magliner when it comes to dependability, durability, and ease-of-use. Magline, in addition to their legendary traditional hand trucks, also carries a motorized hand truck line, fully customizable hand trucks, powered stair climbing hand trucks, a hand lift truck series, and much more. Whatever you need to be moved, lifted, or delivered, trust in Magliner equipment for your material handling requirements.

Trust Magliner material handling equipment to help you move anything that needs moving in an airport or elsewhere, at Magliner.com


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