What do you think of the hand truck?

[mrbrownstone]

I hate how long I feel like it takes to take it out and put it back.

My will muscle a 65+ pound over sized package with the risk of hurting myself out of contempt for getting the damn thing out.

In reality I've probably wasted more time trying to deliver a package without it then with it.

I've even had a few cases where I've made multiple trips to and from the truck because of not wanting to drag out the cart.

 

[scratch]

The reason I've got my name and truck number all over it.

They don't respect that in my building. I keep mine padlocked to my 4000 shelf. It really ticks me off when I come back from vacation and find out that it vanished. I keep a key over my windshield for the cover drivers that run my route, but it will still disappear. After several hernia repairs, I'm tempted to remove the key.

 

[cosmo1]

Hand cart.

Lock it down.

 

[9.5er]

I hate those stupid bolts that hold the flap in place. Seems like they come loose and fall out all the time. Then the flap sits side ways and boxes don't sit on it right.
As a cover driver I see different trucks every day and half the carts are missing one of those bolts.

 

[Jackburton]

There are never enough, be it irresponsible drivers or management worried about capital expenditures.

 

[Luke Thighrocker]

Whom ever designed it, never had to use it. When you lay it on an angle to load it and slide a package down to the base, there's a lip that prevents the package from sliding all the way down flat. smh

Sounds a lot like Orion...

 

[rod]

They are known as 2-wheelers or 2 wheeled carts around here. The old steel ones were heavy. I used my 2 wheeler religiously--sometimes when it probably wasn't necessary. That may have something to do with me retiring in good health with a good back.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

They are known as 2-wheelers or 2 wheeled carts around here. The old steel ones were heavy. I used my 2 wheeler religiously--sometimes when it probably wasn't necessary. That may have something to do with me retiring in good health with a good back.

Wasn't the weight limit 20 lbs back then?

 

[Man Of Brown]

I hate when preload moves it so they can put packages there. Then it slides around all morning until I can clear a space to get it secured.

 

[KOG72]

Nothing

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

I hate when preload moves it so they can put packages there. Then it slides around all morning until I can clear a space to get it secured.

I have a chain and padlock on my dolly. It's chained to the 4000 shelf

 

[rod]

Wasn't the weight limit 20 lbs back then?

When I first started (1971) it was 50 pounds and you couldn't ship more than 100 lbs. to the same consignee per day. L X G=108 inches max also.

 

[rod]

I have a chain and padlock on my dolly. It's chained to the 4000 shelf

into that BDSM are you now? handcuffs also?

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

When I first started (1971) it was 50 pounds and you couldn't ship more than 100 lbs. to the same consignee per day. L X G=108 inches max also.

I delivered a dishwasher.lol

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

into that BDSM are you now? handcuffs also?

No. Just got tired of the dolly thieves

The mechanic bolted a tire chain to my shelf and I have a padlock on it

 

[barnyard]

I am not a fan of the new ones. The fold down thing takes up over half the lip. If I had my own route, I would take that part off. Remove the temptation to overload it and hurt myself.

 

[Cementups]

I hate when preload moves it so they can put packages there. Then it slides around all morning until I can clear a space to get it secured.

Ours get "borrowed" by hub employees who conveniently never remember to put them back.

 

[Cementups]

I sort of miss the old carts that didn't have the rail slides on the back. I'd go into another guys truck and he would be bitching about it sliding around and I would grab it and hang it upside down from the shelf on the wheels and they would go, "oh!!!" They stayed put and didn't make noise banging around. But the extension would loosen and end up being worthless in due time.

 

[DOK]

Just curious, what do you like the most / hate the most from the hand truck and why?

Just the time it seems to take getting it and putting it back.

 

[slappyhappy]

I hate when preload moves it so they can put packages there. Then it slides around all morning until I can clear a space to get it secured.

Or put it in the cab and load so much sh it in there it won't go back in.