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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.
Guide · Shopping basket stands: which type to buy and where to put themA shopping basket stand is the steel frame that keeps a stack of hand baskets off the floor by the door, and one starts from £10 ex VAT, bulk price. The same guide price buys a holder on 50 mm wheels that rolls out of the way when the floor is cleaned. Baskets to fill it start from £3 ex VAT, bulk price for a 40 L hand basket rated to 25 kg.
Guide · How many children's shopping trolleys your store needs, and where to put themA children's shopping trolley is a 17 L to 50 L trolley a child pushes beside the parent, and guide prices start from £11 ex VAT, bulk price. Most stores begin with one short rank at the busiest entrance, set beside the adult trolley bay rather than nested inside it, then add a second rank once staff see how many go out at the weekend peak. Capacity, handle height, castor type, colour and branding are all set on your written quote, because every trolley is made to order.
Guide · Forklift bin tipper: which capacity to buy and what it costsA forklift bin tipper costs from £715 ex VAT for a hydraulic frame built for trucks of 1 to 3.5 t, and from £1,750 ex VAT for a 1000 kg fork mounted frame. The figure that decides which one you buy is rated capacity against the weight of a full bin, not the look of it: wet food trim, glass and damp sweepings reach 1000 kg long before the bin is full. Settle the bin dimensions, the fork pockets and the truck's derated capacity before you compare quotes.
Comparison · Stacker truck batteries: lithium, lead acid or none at allA semi electric stacker truck lifts on a battery and is still pushed by hand, so the pack only works when the forks move: a 1 t machine lifting to 3.5 m starts at from £640 ex VAT. Lead acid is the cheaper pack to buy and wants one full charge in a ventilated bay, while lithium takes short top up charges during breaks and needs no watering, from £845 ex VAT for a 500 to 1,000 kg narrow leg model. If your forks go up fewer than a dozen times a shift, a manual hand stacker at from £445 ex VAT is still the sensible buy.
Guide · Industrial floor sweeper sizing: width, dustbin and winter yard workAn industrial floor sweeper picks up dry waste: dust, grit, shrink wrap, card, leaves and stone. Ride on machines start at from £1,590 ex VAT for a 1,000 mm sweeping width rated up to 8,000 m² per hour, and run to from £3,660 ex VAT for a 1,900 mm enclosed cabin machine rated up to 13,000 m² per hour. Size it on sweeping width first, then on dustbin volume, because the dustbin is what sends the driver back to the skip.
Comparison · Ride On Pallet Truck or Walkie: When Does Riding Pay?A ride on pallet truck is worth the step up once one operator moves pallets over long runs for most of a shift: ours start from £1,590 ex VAT for a 2 to 3 t stand-on rider, against £390 ex VAT for a pedestrian electric truck. Capacity is the same 2 t to 3 t either way, so you are buying distance and shift length, not lift height. Under roughly 25 m per run, a walkie truck from £605 ex VAT usually does the job for less money.
Comparison · Plastic shopping trolley or steel: which one survives a wet winterA plastic shopping trolley does not rust, washes down in seconds and takes trolley bay knocks without showing them, so it suits wet entrances, chilled aisles and outdoor bays. A galvanised or zinc plated steel wire basket flexes less under dense loads and lets the till operator see everything in the trolley, and the galvanised model here is 260 L against 210 L for the plastic one. Trade shopping trolleys start from £16 ex VAT, bulk price.
Guide · Pallet truck hire or buy: when owning costs less than hiringPallet truck hire makes sense for a few days or weeks; if you need a truck for months, buying one usually costs less. Typical UK hire rates, checked in October 2026, are about £38 to £40 a week ex VAT for a hand pallet truck and £195 to £215 a week for a powered one. Our new hand pallet trucks start from £76 ex VAT and electric pallet trucks from £390 ex VAT, before the freight, duty, delivery and VAT on your written quote. We sell only; we do not hire.
Guide · Electric stacker truck lift height: which mast suits your rackingAn electric stacker truck is normally specified at 1.6 m, 2 m, 3 m or 4 m of lift, and a reach or scissor type takes you to 5.5 m. Order the mast about 150 mm above your top beam landing height, then check the residual capacity at that height, because a truck plated at 1.5 t may carry less near the top of the mast. Guide prices run from £1,065 ex VAT for a 4 m two stage mast to £2,490 ex VAT for a triplex with 1,550 mm of free lift.Contact us by email
Send the model code and quantity to sales@londonpallettrucks.co.uk. We reply with a written price ex VAT that includes sea freight and import duty, plus the delivery cost for your postcode. Business customers only.