pallet truck

noun

1. Also called: stacking truck. a powered truck with a mast, sometimes telescopic, on which slides a carriage which can be raised and lowered hydraulically. The carriage has extended forks which can be passed under a palletized load for stacking or moving to a new position

Example Sentences

Instead, he was supplied with a hand-operated pallet truck to move the boxes to the back of the lorry, where they were transferred to a forklift truck.

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Prosecution lawyer Robin Steer told the court the pallet truck Mr Da Costa had used had forks one metre long, but that the Euro pallet he was lifting was only 80cm deep so the forks "protruded out by 20cms and into the stack behind" adding that when he lifted it, they fell on him.

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