We have a very important customer that dictates their product is collected/delivered by a specified haulier. The goods are palletised. The haulier does not carry a pallet truck and insists on using our equipment. He who pays the piper etc. So we a looking at a safe means of getting a pallet truck onto the back of a flatbed. All options considered. Any suggestions. Ruled out options include requiring the haulier to provide the pallet truck. Different vehicles deliver so providing a truck for them to carry is not an option. Solution will need to remain on static site and used as and when loading/unloading.

Are you concerned only with loading the goods onto the flat bed then? Do you have a loading bay with a dock leveller? Without something like that you'll struggle to find a solution, unless you side-load with a FLT.

Can’t see why you can’t unload from the side with a Fork lift truck (as noted above), so no need to access the flatbed? If you insist on doing this, could you get one of those movable platforms with ladders, designed to be pushed to the side of the trailer. These are normally used help with the working at height issues. You could then permanently store a pallet truck on the landing area, which could then be wheeled onto the bed of the trailer. Ok you will have to think of the interface between the trailer bed and the platform, but it would be at the correct height.

What gives you cause to think that using a ped flt is inviting loss of load?

Guru/Phil, you are right it may be the solution, but two points, I wanted to make sure I was not missing a trick and getting the pallet truck onto a pallet has its own issues. We currently do exactly that. The Ped FLT lifts the Pallet Truck onto the flatbed. I wanted to know if anyone out there had a better suggestion. Thanks for your help.