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In light of the surging demand for warehouse staff across the UK, as revealed by the Office for National Statistics, Pallet Trucks UK, a leading provider of material handling equipment, underscores its role in providing high-quality solutions that address labour shortages and enhance warehouse operations.

The Office for National Statistics released data revealing a 43.2% rise in demand for warehouse staff post-pandemic. This revelation underscores the urgent need for innovative strategies. Pallet Trucks UK is urging businesses in the logistics sector to recognise the role that material handling equipment can play in alleviating these challenges and boosting efficiency despite a lack of workers. 

Phil Chesworth, Managing Director of Pallet Trucks UK, says, “It’s clear to see that the demand for skilled workers is outpacing supply. Here at Pallet Trucks UK, we’re focused on providing high-quality material handling equipment to empower businesses to improve their productivity and bridge labour gaps”.

Pallet Trucks UK’s product collection includes a range of equipment such as manual pallet trucks, high-lift pallet trucks, and weighing scale pallet trucks. These tools are designed to help businesses to streamline their material handling processes, allowing them to minimise the need for manual effort. As a result, the burden on employees is reduced, yet workplace efficiency is still enhanced.

Pallet Trucks UK acknowledges that while temporary staff can indeed provide short-term relief, it’s vital that businesses consider alternative solutions in order to thrive in the long run. The company’s material handling solutions are not just about providing immediate assistance. They represent strategic investments that can help warehouses meet their targets while achieving consistent results.

In an industry marked by fluctuating labour shortages, Pallet Trucks UK remains committed to helping businesses improve their operations. Their commitment to providing innovative material handling solutions demonstrates their reliability in ensuring that businesses can weather the storm of labour shortages and emerge more resilient.

A renowned provider of pallet trucks and material handling solutions, Pallet Trucks UK, commends Tata Group’s decision to invest over £4 billion in the construction of a gigafactory in the United Kingdom. This project demonstrates confidence in the resilience of the UK’s supply chain and showcases the country’s appeal for foreign investments.

The creation of Tata Group’s Gigafactory – which will be one of the largest in Europe – highlights the UK’s dedication to reaching its Net Zero target by prioritising the construction of zero-emission vehicles. The investment is expected to generate up to 4,000 direct job opportunities and thousands more in the wider supply chain, making a substantial contribution to the UK economy and its workforce.

To ensure productivity and sustainability within the automotive sector, Pallet Trucks UK is emphasising the significance of the use of efficient material handling fleets, such as regular pallet trucks, high-lift pallet trucks, and weighing-scale pallet trucks. As the gigafactory gears up for production in 2026, Pallet Trucks UK anticipates a surge in demand for high-quality material handling fleets to facilitate the assembly and distribution of batteries and components.

Phil Chesworth, Managing Director of Pallet Trucks UK, says, “Efficiency is the driving force behind every successful venture. Just as Tata Group’s visionary investment in the UK’s gigafactory sparks growth and opportunity, our commitment at Pallet Trucks UK is to provide the essential tools that support productivity and growth within the automotive sector.”

Pallet trucks, being an integral part of material handling, are instrumental in enhancing productivity and reducing operational costs. These indispensable tools enable seamless movement of heavy loads, optimising internal logistics processes and minimising downtime. As businesses associated with the gigafactory and other manufacturing units strive to stay competitive, investing in high-quality pallet trucks to enhance their material handling capabilities is expected to become a priority.

Warehouses are extremely busy places, which can lead many warehouse managers to ignore the importance of regular manual handling maintenance. One specialist provider of warehouse equipment is encouraging managers to put regular maintenance at the top of their priority list.

Pallet trucks are an essential piece of equipment that is found in warehouses across the country. Used for manoeuvring pallets around a warehouse, aiding the order picking process and facilitating speedy delivery for retailers and customers, they are crucial for a smooth-running warehouse. However, when regular hand pallet truck maintenance is not carried out, you could be reducing their performance and life.

Many companies don’t realise the impact on operations that faulty equipment could have. Not only are poorly maintained pallet trucks more likely to break or suffer in performance, but they could also pose a serious health and safety risk to your employees. Pallet Trucks UK is encouraging all managers to conduct regular maintenance to comply with health and safety regulations and so they can quickly identify potential issues that could compromise the safety of their employees.

“Without manual handling equipment, many warehouses will completely cease to function so it’s important that managers do whatever they can to keep their equipment working correctly for as long as possible. Not only is your reputation at risk if you’re unable to fulfil orders due to broken down equipment, but you’re also putting your employees at. Regular maintenance is incredibly important, and something that should never be neglected in the warehouse,” comments Phil Chesworth, the Managing Director of Pallet Trucks UK.

Pallet Trucks UK provides a range of fully electric pallet trucks, scissor lift platforms, and weighing scale pallet trucks that can be trusted by warehouse managers across the country. Whether managers are running a small operation or a multi-centre warehouse complex, they can rely on Pallet Trucks UK to provide professional equipment, whatever the industry.

Despite extreme pressures and setbacks faced by the logistics industry over the course of the pandemic, new reports have shown that companies have been able to successfully adapt and weather the storm, which has been applauded by materials handling equipment provider, Pallet Trucks UK.

According to the latest industry reports that reflect on the past 12 months, the logistics sector remains one of the most consistent contributors to the UK economy, proving that many players within the industry have been successful in their attempts to combat the varying issues they have faced as a result of the pandemic.

“There aren’t many industries that would be able to withstand the pressures and setbacks that the logistics industry faced throughout the pandemic but to see the amount of adaption and flexibility shown is a great example of just how great this industry is,” comments Phil Chesworth, the Managing Director of Pallet Trucks UK.

“Warehouses, in particular, have found new and innovative ways to manage stock levels, ensure speedy delivery to customers across the country, and have found new ways to provide world-class services for retailers and manufacturers who rely on a strong supply chain.”

These latest reports paint a positive picture for companies within the logistics industry, including materials handling equipment specialists, Pallet Trucks UK, which stock a range of high-performance, fully electric pallet trucks, scissor lift platforms and weighing scale pallet trucks.  

Although uncertain conditions and rising demand continue to cause some disruption for the industry, given the adaptability shown in the face of the pandemic, there is definitely no reason to not be optimistic about the coming few months and years ahead.

The warehouse and logistics industry is one that thrives on efficiency and safety. Thanks to Pallet Trucks UK, a leading supplier of pallet trucks and manual handling equipment, warehouses up and down the country have been able to optimise workloads and increase productivity, without compromising on staff safety.

The manual handling retailer has become the go-to supplier of equipment for warehouses across the UK. With a comprehensive range of items, affordable pricing, and speedy delivery options, they have become one of the UK’s leading importers and stockists of all types of warehouse equipment.

The online store offers a comprehensive range of hand pallet trucks, lift tables, and manual stacker trucks for various applications within the warehouse. By keeping up with increased orders, changing customer demands, and supply chain disruption, warehouses will be able to better organise their workflow with the help of efficient manual handling equipment.

Pallet Trucks UK is passionate about providing high-quality, durable equipment that is built to last – no matter how intensive warehouse work is. All products come with a 12-month warranty and the equipment provider encourages all customers to perform regular maintenance checks on their equipment to ensure that it’s suitable for use.

Phil Chesworth, Managing Director of Pallet Trucks UK says, “Without the right equipment, warehouses simply can’t stay productive and efficient. Our site is designed as a one-stop shop for everything that a warehouse manager could need to keep their operations on track and targets met.”

As warehouses across the country prepare for a busy festive period, a top UK importer of high-quality manual handling equipment has taken steps to facilitate the increase in work by introducing a new range of furniture movers. Pallet Trucks UK, based in the West Midlands, has announced that the three movers are now available to customers through its online store.

With two hydraulic and one mechanical, these new furniture movers will make moving furniture, fridges, and other bulky loads much easier and safer for warehouse workers across the country.

The hydraulic furniture movers come in two options, firstly the FM180A which has a 100mm lift height and features heavy duty non-marking polyurethane wheels, a 1800kg balanced total load capacity and a 5-metre straps to secure the load. Customers can also choose the FM180B, a similarly hydraulic mover that comes with the same features, but with a 250mm lift height making it an ideal solution for the delivering and transporting shelving, cupboards, safes, and other machinery.

The alternative mechanical furniture mover features a 300mm lift height and is fit to carry loads of up to 600kg, making it ideal for removal companies, warehouse workers and other maintenance or installation applications.

The popular lifting accessories come in pairs and can be operated by a single person by positioning the two lower lifting edges of the equipment under the load you wish to lift, securing the pair with the 5-metre strap included in your order and then pumping the levers evenly until the load reaches the correct height to transport.

Pallet Trucks UK Managing Director Phil Chesworth said, “We know from our customers that now is a particularly difficult time for many warehouse managers and workers in the logistics industry, so having a wide range of manual handling equipment to make work easier, safer, and more efficient is vital. I’m happy to be adding these new furniture movers to our catalogue as we’re sure they will become essential products that will help ease the stress during the run up to Black Friday and Christmas for warehouse workers across the country.”

The three products are available now direct from the Pallet Trucks UK website, with delivery to England, Wales, Scotland, and the Scottish Highlands. Customers can also choose to collect their delivery for free from the Pallet Trucks UK warehouse, located at the Pensnett Trading Estate in Kingswinford, West Midlands.

A top UK importer of high quality materials handling equipment is taking the next steps towards facilitating a safe and efficient future for UK warehouses with the introduction of an innovative new order picker. Pallet Trucks UK, a West Midlands-based leader in manual handling tools and accessories, has announced that the 4.5 metre fully electric order picker known as the EOP3-4.5, is now available to UK customers through its online store.

The 300kg capacity equipment provides a working height of up to approximately 6.5 meters, and has been designed and manufactured as a space-saving alternative to portable manual steps used within many warehousing environments. Featuring an integrated telescopic mast, the low profile solution aims to boost production and efficiency while addressing some of the biggest challenges facing warehouses post-Brexit.

Pallet Trucks UK Managing Director Phil Chesworth said, “As a direct result of Brexit, we’ve seen many warehouses stockpiling goods from the European Union and narrowing their aisles to optimise capacity. The introduction of this new fully electric order picker model provides an accessible and affordable solution to the obstacles that are rising as a result of work area limitations, helping operators to sustainably increase pick rate in challenging conditions, achieving faster and more accurate picks without compromising on safety.”

In addition to facilitating a more efficient future, Pallet Trucks UK is also making it easier for warehouses to increase safety within the workplace by selecting a product with extensive integrated safety features. The EOP3-4.5 boasts a spacious 650x690mm platform size for optimal operator stability during picking, and automatically reduces the maximum driving speed from 4 km/h when lowered to a slower 1.5 km/h while raised. The equipment also includes a drop valve, which enables the operator to override the system and manually lower the platform should an emergency situation arise.

While the EOP3-4.5 has been imported by Pallet Trucks UK from Europe, charging the order picker is simple with a standard UK plug and single phase 240v supply. All orders include an EC Declaration of Conformity which demonstrates that the equipment meets all relevant product safety directives, and a LOLER certificate which confirms that the EOP3-4.5 adheres to strict Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations and criteria.

The 4.5 metre fully electric order picker is available now direct from the Pallet Trucks UK website, with delivery to England, Wales, Scotland, and the Scottish Highlands. Customers can also choose to collect the EOP3-4.5 from the Pallet Trucks UK warehouse, located at the Pensnett Trading Estate in Kingswinford, West Midlands.

Pallet Trucks UK has urged materials handling professionals not to be alarmed by a futuristic new project that could see them sharing their workplaces with autonomous robotic workers in the future.

The new ILIAD (Intra-Logistics with Integrated Automatic Deployment) project has been devised by scientists to create entire new fleets of robots called AGVs (automatic guidance vehicles) which will perform tasks such as transporting goods on forklift trucks and pallet jacks as well palletising duties.

Phil Chesworth, Pallet Trucks UK Managing Director, said: “News such as this naturally causes alarm amongst people who may work with forklifts or pallet jacks on a daily basis; who wants their job to be taken by a robot?

“It’s for this reason we’d like to remind workers in our field the focus of the ILIAD project is to create fleets of robots to work alongside humans, not replace them. Secondly, the project is still very much in its research phase at the moment, so don’t expect to be turning up to work and meeting a new robotic colleague anytime soon.”

A key requirement of the ILIAD project is that the robots will be ‘self-aware’ and able to detect, track and predict the behaviour of their human counterparts, and work with them to speed up processes and increase efficiency. Each AGV will also be self-optimizing and able to learn from its own collected data, making fleets of the new AI workers fully scaleable with the option of adding new ones to the fleet at any time.

ILIAD has been developed by robotics specialists from the UK, Sweden, Italy and Germany as part of the EU’s Horizon 2020 fund, and includes the collaboration of experts from universities across the continent.

Phil added: “The emergence of a new robotic workforce could actually be beneficial to us as it may create less strenuous work for humans and mean fewer injuries for forklift drivers and materials handling professionals.

“The rise of AI will also create new jobs in itself as there will need to be a whole new wave of repair specialists to fix the robots when faults and malfunctions occur, so it’s certainly nothing to be worried about in the foreseeable future.”

Although the aim of ILIAD is to create robots able to work in a multitude of industries, the AGVs are to be initially trialled in the food sector due to its challenging requirements including short shelf-life products, high wastage costs and traceability needs.

Pallet Trucks UK currently supplies a vast variety of manual handling equipment to the food sector such as forklift fork extensions and hand pallet trucks, as well as a wide range of other materials handling goods such as moving skates, sack trucks and lift tables.

Pallet Trucks UK, one of the country’s leading providers of pallet trucks and other manual handling equipment to a range of sectors has welcomed the revelation that UK legislation, which is generally seen as the ‘gold standard’ in health and safety, is unlikely to change substantially in the short term, should the UK leave the EU.

When the UK joined the EU in 1973, a series of health and safety directives were issued at the European level and transposed into UK law. The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 establishes obligations for employers to identify, evaluate, avoid and reduce workplace risks in order to ensure that working environments are safe and fit for purpose. Once outside the European trade rules, the UK would be free to ‘cut red tape’ and derestrict rules. However political and social realities mean that the impact on health and safety related legislation is likely to be limited, so should the UK vote to leave the EU, the UK parliament is likely to confirm the status of existing legislation but amend it where needed to take the new relationship with the EU into account – similar to other countries outside the EU.

Phil Chesworth from Pallet Trucks UK said, “Health and safety is paramount in the industries we supply to. Having legislations and guidelines which employees adhere to is so important for ensuring the safety of everyone involved. The UK has long been a beacon for health and safety around Europe, with other countries looking to us for guidance. With that in mind, it’s so important that we continue to follow these guides and ensure everyone’s safety, whether we stay in the EU or not.”

Relevant regulation dates back to 1833, and over the years, the UK has developed one of the best health and safety records in the world. The foundation of the current health and safety regulatory system has one simple principle, those who create risks are best placed to control them. The current UK health and safety regime is made up of a combination of laws that derive solely from the UK, and others that were made under EU directives.

Pallet Trucks UK, one of the country’s leading suppliers of manual handling equipment, has this week unveiled its slick and stylish new website, with the promise of new products, new content and new features to come over the next year.

The popular pallet truck provider’s new website has been overhauled with special attention given to enhancing the user experience. Pallet Trucks UK now offers streamlined browsing, more functionality, faster page loads and superior performance across the board – music to the ears of those who regularly use the site to stock up on their lifting and handling equipment.

The team at Pallet Trucks UK will also be channelling their efforts to ensure the site is the go-to online destination for all the latest products, content, information and industry news. With the new site now up and running, all focus will turn to ensuring this site is the number one resource for industrial businesses seeking the very finest equipment.

Phil Chesworth, Managing Director of Pallet Trucks UK, says, “The brand new website has been many months in the making, and we’re absolutely thrilled with the outcome. The responsive design means it’s fully accessible on mobile devices, and the streamlined new look has made navigation simpler than ever. We wanted to ensure we created a revamped site which met all of our customer’s needs, and we feel the new layout and the backend changes we’ve made certainly lives up to that brief.

“Our attention will now turn to ensuring the site remains one of the foremost resources for anyone looking for materials handling equipment. We already have a fully fleshed-out news section, with articles on everything from safety to industry news, but we’ll now be broadening our horizons and offering bundles of exciting new content that will offer real value for our users.”

Established in 1994, Pallet Trucks UK has built a glowing reputation over a period of more than twenty years. The 60,000 square foot Midlands facility where the company is based holds more than £7m worth of stock at any one time, and has become one of the UK’s largest wholesalers within this sector. For a company so large and relied-upon by many, it was necessary to build a website that matched the scale of the business – and its future ambitions.

New stock will also be added to the site as and when it arrives at the Midlands facility – the site will be regularly updated with new special offers and exclusive discounts to reward loyal customers that keep checking back.