Flat Deck
Full length, stackable
The deck is flat and full length so cases stack rather than wedge. It is a working surface at a loading height rather than a container, which is the whole difference from a basket trolley.
Flat deck · cases and sacks · fixed handle
A flat deck on castors with a push handle at one end. It is what a cash-and-carry, a builders merchant or a warehouse club needs, where the unit of sale is a case rather than an item.
Studio angles on white, with close-ups below.
Where goods are sold by the case, the sack or the pallet quantity, a basket is useless. Cases have to be stacked, and stacking needs a flat surface at a height a person can load without bending double. This trolley is that surface: a full-length deck on four castors with a fixed push handle at one end.
Loading is the specification that matters and it is set against your actual goods, not to a general figure. A trolley carrying cartons of crisps and one carrying bagged cement look identical in a photograph and are completely different products.
A flat deck on castors with a push handle at one end. It is what a cash-and-carry, a builders merchant or a warehouse club needs, where the unit of sale is a case rather than an item.
Supermarkets, convenience stores, chain retail and speciality stores. Tell us the store format and the floor area and the specification comes back written against them.
This is a load-carrying tool rather than a display object, so all four close-ups are structure.
Full length, stackable
The deck is flat and full length so cases stack rather than wedge. It is a working surface at a loading height rather than a container, which is the whole difference from a basket trolley.
One end
The handle is fixed rather than folding, because a loaded platform trolley is pushed hard and a folding handle is a hinge under that load. It also gives the operator something to steer against.
Sized to the load
Castors are sized to the load and the floor together. A castor that is fine empty will flat-spot under a full deck of cases, which is the most common failure on this type of trolley.
Welded, load rated
The frame under the deck is where the loading specification lives. Tell us what you actually put on it and this is the part that gets sized against it.
Every item on this page is made to order. Send a floor plan, a hand sketch or a photograph of a fixture you like, and we quote against it.
Store fixtures are light for their size, so a container fills up on volume long before it fills up on weight. What decides your freight is not what one unit weighs — it is what shape the goods are in when they go through the container door. Everything we build leaves in one of three shapes.
Shelving bays, produce islands and bulk cabinets travel as panels — uprights, shelves, back panels and plinths, strapped flat with bubble wrap on every component. They are built up on the shop floor, so the packing list and the assembly drawings travel with the goods.
Trolleys slide into one another and baskets stack. Past the first unit, each extra one adds only its nesting pitch instead of its full length, so the shipped volume ends up a fraction of what the unit count suggests.
This model
A checkout lane is welded, coated and fitted out as one piece, so it is crated whole with padding on the steel. Nothing waits to be assembled at the store beyond levelling it into the lane, and the crate is the counter plus a margin.
Trolleys are the one category where the unit count and the shipped volume are almost unrelated. They nest, so past the first unit each extra one adds only its nesting pitch instead of its full length — which is why a container of trolleys holds several times what the same container of assembled counters would. We do not publish litre capacities for this range. The figures circulating for it came from an old third-party listing rather than from our own production records, and they are being confirmed with the factory before they go on the site.
A trolley bay is part of the front of store, and what it stands next to decides how well it works.
The lane length has to leave room for a loaded trolley to turn out of it, which is a dimension worth checking before either is ordered.
See checkout countersAisle width is set by two loaded trolleys passing, so the shelving depth and the trolley size are one decision rather than two.
See shelving baysA promotion square at an aisle head is the first thing a trolley has to get past, and the clearance between them is worth drawing.
See promotional display tablesHow many of each a store needs is a floor area question rather than a product question, and it is answered store by store on the equipment lists by store size.
Send the heaviest thing you will put on it. That is the specification.
Send the heaviest load you will put on the deck and the floor it runs on. Those two numbers set the frame and the castors, which is what you are actually buying here.
The four that come up on nearly every enquiry for this build. If yours is not here, send it with your layout and it is answered alongside the quotation.
It is specified against your actual goods rather than quoted as a general figure. Send the heaviest load you intend to put on it and the frame and castor specification come back on the quotation.
Platform trolleys nest less tightly than basket trolleys because the deck gets in the way, but they do stack. The loading plan accounts for that and it is worked out on your quantity.
Removable side gates can be specified, and on anything that rolls they are worth having. Tell us what you carry — loose sacks want gates, stacked cartons often do not.
Castors are sized to the load and the floor together. A warehouse floor, a car park apron and a polished retail floor all want different castors under a loaded deck.
