1.5-2.0t WS Series Electric Pallet Truck with Lithium Battery

This is a horizontal transport machine, not a stacker. The forks lift 197 mm, which is enough to pick a pallet clear of the floor and move it, and not enough to place anything into racking. If your bottleneck is getting pallets from the dock to the pick face, this solves it. If you also need to lift into racking, look at a stacker or a reach truck instead.

It carries 1,500 to 2,000 kg and weighs only 125 kg itself, so it is light enough to move around a congested floor without dominating it. Gradeability is quoted at up to 20 per cent unladen and 10 per cent with an 800 kg load, which matters if you are running between levels on a ramp rather than working on one flat slab. Travel speed is 5 km/h unladen and 4 km/h loaded.

Three drive modes cover the awkward parts of a shift. Turtle Speed holds it to a safe crawl in tight spaces, Up-Right Drive helps when you are working in confined areas, and Engineering mode is for maintenance. The multi-function tiller and LCD show battery status, recharge alerts and error codes, so an operator can see a developing problem rather than reporting a truck that has already stopped.

Lithium power means it charges in the gaps during a shift instead of needing a battery change room. KJ is an authorised Hangcha partner and handles sales, hire, service and genuine parts in-house.