https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/Buying notes, range news and offers from London Pallet Trucks: pallet trucks, pump trucks, stackers, forklifts, shopping trolleys and roll cages for UK businesses. Written for buyers, not for search engines, with real prices and real products.en-gbhttps://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/pump-truck-buying-guide/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/pump-truck-buying-guide/Sun, 20 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000A pump truck, a pallet truck and a pallet jack are the same thing: a hand hydraulic truck that lifts a pallet clear of the floor so one person can move it. For most UK warehouses and cash and carries the right buy is a 2 t or 2.5 t truck with 1150 mm forks and polyurethane wheels, from £68 ex VAT. Step up to 3 t or 5 t for dense loads such as tiles, drums or steel, choose galvanised or stainless for wet and food areas, and add a weighing scale if you check weights at goods in.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/loading-ramp-or-dock-leveller/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/loading-ramp-or-dock-leveller/Sun, 20 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000If you load from a raised bay, a fixed hydraulic dock leveller is the cheaper answer, from £790 ex VAT. If you load from a flat yard or into a shipping container, you need a mobile loading ramp, from £2,950 ex VAT for a 10 t unit. Capacity, not price, is the number that decides the specification.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/electric-pallet-truck-buying-guide/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/electric-pallet-truck-buying-guide/Sat, 19 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000For most cash and carry and warehouse floors a 1.5 to 2 t walkie electric pallet truck with a lithium-ion battery is the right buy, from £385 ex VAT. Step up to 3 t for drinks, tiles, bagged goods and yard work, and keep a manual pump truck for short, occasional moves. Lead-acid still makes sense where the truck works one shift and charges overnight in a fixed spot.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/supermarket-trolleys-roll-cages-shelving-added/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/supermarket-trolleys-roll-cages-shelving-added/Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000London Pallet Trucks has added a second factory partner and seven retail ranges to the shop: supermarket shopping trolleys in European, American, Asian and plastic styles, children's trolleys, shopping baskets, roll cages, warehouse and platform trolleys, wire shelving and warehouse step ladders. Everything is made to order and priced in GBP ex VAT, with trolleys from £11 and roll cages from £24 at container quantities.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/pallet-stacker-vs-forklift/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/pallet-stacker-vs-forklift/Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000A pallet stacker is enough when your heaviest pallet is 2 t or under, your top beam is no higher than about 4.5 m and the truck works indoors on a level floor. A full electric walkie stacker with a 3 m mast starts from £1,035 ex VAT, needs no operator licence and turns in an aisle a counterbalance forklift cannot. Choose a forklift for heavier loads, taller racking, yard work or side loading a lorry.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/forklift-buying-guide-diesel-lpg-electric/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/forklift-buying-guide-diesel-lpg-electric/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000A new counterbalance forklift bought factory-direct starts from £3,030 ex VAT for a 3 to 5 t diesel, from £3,380 ex VAT for a 3 t LPG and from £3,270 ex VAT for a 1.5 to 3.5 t lithium electric. Diesel suits open yards, LPG suits mixed indoor and outdoor work with ventilation, and electric suits warehouses, food premises and cold stores. Compare nothing until the written quote shows freight, duty and VAT.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/scissor-lift-cherry-picker-mast-lift-or-order-picker/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/scissor-lift-cherry-picker-mast-lift-or-order-picker/Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000For warehouse racking, maintenance and shopfitting between 6 m and 14 m, an electric scissor lift is the right buy for most sites: a 300 to 500 kg platform, lift heights from 6 m to 13.8 m, from £1,275 ex VAT. A single mast lift from £955 ex VAT suits one person with hand tools at 6 m, and an order picker from £2,870 ex VAT is the choice when the job is picking stock in narrow aisles. A cherry picker only earns its size and cost when you must reach up and over something.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/shopping-trolley-sizes-and-styles/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/shopping-trolley-sizes-and-styles/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000A convenience store usually runs 60 L to 100 L shopping trolleys, a supermarket 120 L to 180 L, and a cash and carry or hypermarket 200 L to 280 L. Factory-direct guide prices start from £19 ex VAT at trade quantities (minimum order applies), and the minimum order is 10 units on some models. Style, castors, child seat, coin lock, colour and logo are specified on your written quote because every trolley is made to order.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/roll-cage-guide/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/roll-cage-guide/Sun, 13 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000A 2-sided nestable roll cage is the standard choice for supermarket and wholesale deliveries: it is rated 500 kg, folds flat, nests when empty and starts from £28 ex VAT at trade quantities (minimum order applies). Add shelves for bread and small goods, or a locking door for tobacco, spirits and other high-value stock. Most roll cages are sold in minimum orders of 50 units, confirmed on your written quote.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/platform-trolley-guide/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/platform-trolley-guide/Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000For most cash and carry and warehouse work a 300 kg steel flat trolley from £32 ex VAT is the right starting point. Move up to a 500 kg platform trolley from £68 ex VAT for part-pallet loads on goods-in, and down to a 200 kg model from £28 ex VAT for light replenishment and customer use. Minimum orders run from 10 to 50 units, confirmed on your written quote.