Making Light Work With Handtrucks

There's nothing worse than when you get to a trade show with a boot full of gear and you have to park miles from the exhibition hall.

It's at times like this you wish you invested in a folding hand truck or for bulkier items a folding platform trolley. Both are lightweight and have the benefit of fitting in the boot of your car.

The other day at a show I saw a nifty idea of a combined hand trolley and step ladder. The fold out platform will take up to 90kg, so it's ideal for all those heavy boxes of literature or brochures.

Where it really scored over the traditional hand trucks was the step ladder. There are 101 things you need to reach on an exhibition stand and sods law there wont be a step ladder in sight.

The combined steps and trolley would be ideal on any exhibition stand whether it's for hanging graphics on your pop up stand or attaching spot lights to a shell scheme. After a bit of searching I found the product at www.discounthandtrucks.com.

They have two step and three step versions but for most exhibition application I can think of two steps would be fine.