Holiday Volume Is Coming: 4 Ways Distributors Get Their Routes Ready

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From Thanksgiving through New Year's Eve, restaurants, bars, and retailers fill their shelves for parties, catering orders, and holiday menus. For local beverage and food service distributors, that means more cases per stop and more stops per route. 

Here are four ways distributors get ready for the holiday rush. 

Delivery worker unloading packs of bottled drinks from a Magliner hand truck at a store entrance

Check Fleet Condition Before November

A worn tire or a loose handle is a minor fix in late October and a missed delivery in mid-December. Audit your fleet now, replace worn wheels and parts, and pull any unit that needs repair before routes get busy. 

Check brakes and ratchet straps too, since those parts see heavy use during peak weeks. Hand trucks designed with modularity in mind make this process faster, as a single component can be swapped out without retiring the whole hand truck.

Store employee rolling a Magliner platform truck stocked with soda crates down a supermarket aisle

Give Each Driver the Right Tool

Each route has its own mix of stops. A 2 wheel dolly handles stacks of cases under 500 pounds and moves easily through restaurant back doors and narrow storerooms. When a route mixes those stops with larger deliveries, a convertible hand truck covers both, working as a classic hand truck at the door and switching to platform truck mode for bulkier loads.

Make Room for Extra Cases

Holiday orders tend to fill trucks up to the doors, and every cubic foot matters. A portable collapsible hand cart folds flat for transport between stops, then opens to full working size at the curb, capable of handling loads up to 500 pounds. It also stores out of the way at stops where the driver doesn't need it.

Man pushing a Magliner aluminum platform cart loaded with stacked beer kegs outside a stadium gate

Add Capacity for Bigger Orders

Party orders and catering accounts often mean full kegs and stacks of cases at a single stop. Consider a heavy duty aluminum hand truck configured to move loads up to 800 pounds, so a driver can move a large order in fewer trips. Fewer trips per stop keep the whole route on schedule through the busiest weeks of the year.

About Magline

Magliner hand trucks give commercial teams a dependable way to move heavy and awkward loads, from navigating retail backrooms to delivering heavy appliances. The lineup covers two-wheel dollies, convertible hand trucks, heavy duty appliance hand trucks, powered hand trucks, and powered stair climbing dollies. Built from lightweight aluminum with a modular design, Magliner hand trucks make part replacement simple, and many models can be customized for the work your crew does every day.

Get ready for the holiday rush with Magliner hand trucks at https://www.magliner.com/

This article was originally published on magliner.com’s blog here.

Location: United States

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