March 24th, 2023

How Your Business Can Utilise a Goods Trolley

If you’re in the Business of Moving Goods, We’ve Got Your Back

Efficiency and safety are essential factors to prioritise when running a business or warehouse. One effective tool for achieving both goals is a goods trolley, which can help transport goods, reduce the risk of workplace injuries, and increase productivity.

Whether you are thinking of getting platform trolleys or warehouse trolleys, this guide will explore the different kinds of trolleys your business needs.

What is a Goods Trolley?

A goods trolley, also known as a utility trolley or service cart, is a wheeled vehicle used to transport heavy items within a business, office, or warehouse setting.

They typically have several tiers of shelves or trays for easy organisation and storage.
They are often made with sturdy materials such as steel to support the weight of heavy items.

Most trolleys, whether folding platform trolleys, sack trolleys, or pallet trucks, are designed to move easily on the ground. This reduces the need for unloading and manual lifting and carrying, which can be dangerous and time-intensive.

Want to improve productivity and reduce the risk of workplace injuries in your business? A trolley might just be the solution you need. Every business needs a trolley, whether it be sack trucks, heavy-duty sack trucks, platform trolleys, or folding sack trucks.

Companies such as our own offer different types of trolleys for different industries. Let’s look at the different types of goods trolleys RollPallet UK offers and how they may benefit your business.

Types of Goods Trolleys

Variety really is the spice of life when it comes to selecting the solution which best suits your needs, so let’s explore each in a little more detail and match the tool to the business use case to help give you a better understanding of the more common use cases for each.

Merchandising & Picking Trolleys

This incredibly adaptable picking trolley can be used in various environments, even indoors, such as warehouses, factories, and retail.

If your business is in the e-commerce or retail fulfilment centres, you should check out these Merchandising trolleys. They are designed for busy order-picking conditions and can carry a bit of load. Because of their thin shape, these order-picking trolleys may fit neatly into a van sack truck, folding truck, and vehicles.

They are made of high-tensile steel and electro-zinc plated to withstand warehousing environments. Because of its simplicity, warehouse workers and store employees can use the merchandising trolley swiftly and efficiently.

These trolleys are intended for tight aisles to select small parts into plastic containers, which may be quickly sent into waiting vans.

The RollPallet range of merchandising and picking trolleys  are versatile and easy to use. They include shelves, giving them a tiered appearance. The shelves have been built to keep the objects in place as they move during the picking process.

If your business deals with the manual handling and transportation of pallets, boxes, heavy loads, or other bulky objects, these distinctive trolleys will provide the security and simplicity you need to keep your supply chain going smoothly.

Cash-and-Carry Trolleys

It is not just about getting a platform trolley; it is more important to select the one that best fits what you need it for.

Cash-and-carry trolleys are commonly found at retail wholesalers or cash-and-carry establishments. These carts are beneficial because consumers can load many heavy loads of products without damaging the goods.

These platform trolleys come in handy at DIY stores where many things sold are enormous and bulky that do not fit in a regular shopping trolley.

Cash and Carry Trolleys provide a big surface area for laying flat boxed sale items on a spring-loaded platform. Its spring adds stability to the flatbed’s surface area and allows the products to remain while you push the trolley.

Shopping Trolleys

Shopping trolleys have been used for over 50 years as a practical and versatile retail option.

A shopping trolley or grocery cart can be helpful for various reasons. Let’s go over a few of them.

i) These trolleys are lighter and easier to operate, providing clients with easy storage and a hassle-free experience.

ii) Our trolleys come in various sizes and have a large storage capacity, allowing clients to transport big things conveniently.

iii) Shopping trolleys may be neatly nested into one another, saving valuable storage space.

RollPallet UK specialises in shopping trolleys and offers a diverse choice of carts that are suitable and compatible with various-sized trolley bays and meet the needs of your business.

If you have a retail or wholesale business, you should take a look at our steel shopping trolleys. They can be seen at supermarkets, grocery stores, home stores, convenience stores, and other locations.

These trolleys have two fixed wheels on the back and two swivel wheels in front, enabling your customers’ easy access and turning in a busy retail environment for a convenient shopping experience.

If this is the type of trolley you’re most interested in, be sure to read our shopping trolley buying guide pre-purchase.

Furniture Cages

The specialised transportation trolleys are explicitly designed for large, bulky products like furniture. They are basically heavy-duty sack trucks.

The concept behind this robust roll container cage is to reduce the workload within the warehouse while boosting storage space and improving health, safety, and efficiency.

Several furniture businesses face difficulties in storing furniture products for seasonal demand. If you have such a problem, you can boost your capacity and operating efficiency in the warehouse by installing furniture cages.

On the ground, the furniture pallet, or ‘Furnibox,’ as it is known in the industry, can be block-stacked three units high.

These furniture cages can also be moved (on solid rubber or nylon castors) and stacked in low or high-bay racking. Wheel locks with improved functioning and a useful package trolley flap make both removal teams and warehouse workers happier.

Storing furniture is a difficult task. Usually, there is damage to the warehouse staff and furniture! In fact, anything that usually involves manual handling of heavy-duty equipment is always a nightmare!

That is where the Furniture Box, or ‘Furnibox,’ comes into play. This feat of engineering in the roll container space is frequently employed in retail furniture and garden outlets across the country.

To store huge, heavy furniture pieces and awkward loads that do not fit onto a full pallet truck, a standard 2500mm or larger 2700mm wide Furnibox unit is appropriate.

Furthermore, as with all our one-of-a-kind storage and transport solutions range, you can customise it with various colours and accessories.

Movers and stockists commonly use furniture cages throughout the United Kingdom and Europe. They’re perfect for furniture sales and transportation businesses – and here’s another 10 good reasons why you should consider using them if you’re in the business of moving heavy, bulky or awkward goods!

Milk Roll Pallet Truck

A dairy pallet truck, the Milkman’s (or Milkwoman’s) option, lightens the weight of heavy items. It is a great help for those involved in the packing, transporting, and distributing of dairy products across the country.

The milk cage unit is built of high-tensile steel for optimal durability and has compound nylon wheels.

The milk pallet unit has pop-up shelves to showcase various dairy products and packaging sizes, allowing customers to self-serve. This unit has rugged nylon tyres and two fixed and swivel castors.

This trolley basket can accommodate up to four layers. It can safely transport items up to 250kg and has a gate to ensure minimal product damage during travel. When not used or through reverse logistics, 5 x folded units take up roughly the same space as one open unit.

This milk cage, compatible with auto-packers, will improve the efficiency of picking, transport, and dairy warehouse operations.

If you are in the food distribution, hospitality and events or food service organisation business, you should read this milk trolley buying guide to choosing the best milk roll trolley for you.

Choose RollPallet UK for Your Goods Trolley Needs

No matter what kind of business you are into, there is certainly a goods trolley out there for you.

Whether you are thinking of moving files, transporting equipment and goods, or making them a staple in your warehouse, it’s a good call.

All of our goods trolleys take the manual strain of lifting and carrying heavy goods. They increase productivity and efficiency while reducing the risk of workplace injuries. We’re naturally a little biased, but all around, getting a goods trolley is a great idea!

RollPallet UK is one of the leading distributors of goods trolleys in the UK. With a wide range of sizes in-stock and built-to-order upon request our fully-customisable trolleys will be perfect for your business.

We offer businesses small and large a cost-effective and practical solution for transporting and storing large quantities of goods.

Through our best price guarantee promise, and our newly-launched line of budget options, we really won;t be beaten on price or quality.

If you’re keen to take the next step on your trolley buying journey, please feel free to reach out to our team directly and our sales team will gladly assist you and provide your business with the expert advice you need to make the right decision for your specific goods trolley requirements.