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Hand Trucks

Two-wheel hand trucks, convertible carts, and stair-climbers built for daily dock and warehouse use, frame, wheels, and handle configured to your load.

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Hand Trucks & Dollies

Two-Wheel Hand Trucks Built for the Job in Front of You

This is the classic two-wheel hand truck category, and it covers more ground than it looks like at first glance: standard curved-back and straight-back steel frames, aluminum trucks and convertible carts, and drum-specific and stair-climbing models. Between them, this lineup handles everyday freight movement, 55-gallon drum handling, and deliveries that a standard two-wheeler can't reach.

The frame is only half the truck. Nose plate size, handle style, and wheel type all change what a hand truck is actually good at, which is why the convertible and tubular lines carry lettered model options for each of those choices. A truck set up for a smooth loading dock is the wrong truck for a gravel yard or a flight of stairs, and matching the configuration to your floor and your load is what decides whether it holds up or gives out.

Standard Trucks You Can Buy, Configured Trucks You Quote

Choosing a Configuration

Standard Trucks You Can Buy, Configured Trucks You Quote

Some of this catalog is straightforward enough to buy directly. A standard steel or aluminum hand truck with stock wheels and a stock nose plate, no drum attachment, no stair-climbing gear, no unusual load, is a simple spec, and simpler stocked models can reasonably move that way at a fair price.

The model-coded lines are a different animal. Every letter in a convertible or tubular hand truck model number picks a specific handle, nose plate, or wheel combination, and getting one wrong shows up later as a nose plate too wide for the crate or wheels that can't hold up to the floor. Those configured builds route to a quote: tell us your load weight and dimensions, the floor surface, and where the truck is headed, dock, truck bed, or stairs, and we'll send back the right configuration with a price.

Applications

Where Hand Trucks Earn Their Keep

Dock and Warehouse Freight

Standard curved-back and straight-back hand trucks move cartons, cases, and stacked freight from truck to dock to shelf: the everyday job these steel tubular lines are built around.

Drum and Barrel Handling

Drum trucks and barrel carriers are built around the geometry of a standard drum rather than a flat nose plate, so the load stays cradled and secured instead of balanced on an edge.

Stairs and Tight Access

Stair-climbing hand trucks and convertible trucks handle deliveries a standard two-wheeler can't: multi-flight walk-ups, tight hallways, or jobs that need to fold flat into a four-wheel cart between stops.

Why It Matters

Built for the Load, Not Just the Aisle

Frame Matched to the Load

Curved-back frames angle the load toward the operator for balance over curbs and uneven ground; straight-back frames keep it flush and vertical for stacking cartons or crates. The wrong one means fighting the truck instead of the freight.

Wheels Sized to the Floor

Pneumatic wheels absorb shock on gravel and yard surfaces, solid rubber wheels won't puncture and hold up to warehouse concrete, and balloon cushion wheels split the difference on mixed terrain. Same frame, different job, depending on what's bolted to it.

Fold-Flat and Specialty Options

Convertible trucks flip from a two-wheel hand truck to a four-wheel platform cart in one motion, and tilt trucks add a foot-pedal tilt so one person can load and move heavier bulk items without a second set of hands.

Tell us the load, the floor, and where it's headed.

Send us your load weight, dimensions, and whether it's moving across concrete, gravel, or stairs, and we'll spec the right hand truck and send a written quote.

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Configured to the Truck, Not the Catalog

Configured to the Truck, Not the Catalog

These steel hand truck lines are model-coded for a reason: each letter in the model number locks in a specific frame height, nose plate size, handle style, or wheel type. That's not complexity for its own sake: it's how the same base frame gets built out for a curb-heavy delivery route, a smooth dock, or a load that needs a wider nose plate to sit under it.

Send us your load dimensions and where the truck is working, and we translate that into the right model code: rather than you guessing at a lettered spec sheet built for a warehouse buyer, not a first-time order.

From the Dock to the Stairwell

From the Dock to the Stairwell

Not every load stays on flat concrete. Stair-climbing trucks handle walk-up deliveries a standard two-wheeler can't touch, and convertible trucks fold flat into a four-wheel platform cart when the job shifts from carrying to rolling. Tilt trucks add a foot-pedal tilt for bulk loads that are awkward for one person to lever by hand.

The right pick depends on where the truck actually works day to day (loading dock, delivery route, or building interior) more than on any single spec sheet number.

Hand Trucks

Key Features

  • Curved-back and straight-back frames in steel and aluminum
  • Configurable nose plate size, handle style, and wheel type on model-coded lines
  • Pneumatic, solid rubber, and balloon cushion wheel options for different floor surfaces
  • Convertible two-wheel-to-four-wheel platform trucks
  • Drum- and barrel-specific trucks and carriers built for 55-gallon loads
  • Stair-climbing models for multi-flight and walk-up deliveries
  • Foot-pedal tilt trucks for one-person bulk handling
  • Steel tubular frames, aluminum trucks, and drum and stair lines

Frequently Asked Questions

Curved-back frames angle the load toward the operator, which keeps it balanced when you're tilting back to clear a curb or move over rough ground. Straight-back frames keep the load flush and vertical, which works better when you're stacking multiple cartons or crates against the frame. Most general warehouse work runs curved-back; straight-back shows up more in delivery and stacking-heavy jobs.
It comes down to your floor. Pneumatic (air-filled) wheels absorb shock on gravel, yard surfaces, and uneven ground but can go flat. Solid rubber wheels won't puncture and hold up well on warehouse concrete. Balloon cushion wheels are a wider, softer solid-rubber wheel that splits the difference on mixed indoor and outdoor surfaces. Tell us your floor surface and load weight and we'll match the wheel to it.
It depends on the model. A simpler stocked truck (standard frame, stock wheels, no drum attachment or stair-climbing gear) is quick to quote. The model-coded convertible and tubular lines carry lettered options for handle, nose plate, and wheel that need to be matched to your load, so those route to a quote to make sure the build is right the first time.
Yes: these drum and barrel trucks are built around the geometry of a standard drum rather than a flat nose plate, so the drum sits cradled and secured instead of balanced on an edge. Tell us your drum size and whether you're moving it across a dock, a truck bed, or uneven ground and we'll spec the right one.

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