Pedestrian Stacker Truck training in London
A walk-behind truck with a mast. Lifts pallets into racking or onto vehicles in places a sit-on forklift would never fit.
Photo: Toyota Walkie Stacker Forklift on Pepsi Truck in Irvine, FL.jpg by DanTD, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
About pedestrian stackers
A pedestrian stacker is the step up from a pallet truck. The operator still walks behind it holding a tiller, but it has a proper mast, so it can put a pallet in racking or lift it onto a tail lift. Straddle-leg stackers wrap their legs around the pallet; counterbalanced stackers carry the load ahead of the chassis and handle closed-bottom pallets and stillages. Some have a fold-down platform for longer runs.
They suit small businesses and tight spaces, which makes them the London truck par excellence. We train on them in the railway-arch workshops of Bermondsey, Hackney and Brixton, the fashion sample rooms of the East End, the stock rooms behind Oxford Street and Westfield, the kitchens and dry stores of hotels and restaurant groups, the scenery docks of West End theatres, and the small units of every borough's trading estate. Because the operator stands at floor level while the load goes up, the risk is a raised load tipping towards them, so the course focuses on stability at height, the capacity plate and keeping clear of the mast.
Where a business has one or two people who occasionally lift a pallet into racking, a stacker course is often the cheapest way to meet the legal duty without buying a sit-on truck or paying for a full counterbalance course.
What the course covers
- Pre-use checks: mast, chains, tiller controls, straddle legs and battery
- Pedestrian position and tiller technique with a raised mast
- Stability, load centres and the capacity plate
- Stacking and de-stacking in racking
- Loading vehicles and tail lifts
- Charging, parking and shutdown
On site, on your truck, anywhere in London
We bring an accredited instructor to your premises in any London borough or surrounding town. You provide the truck and a safe working area; we provide the theory material, test papers and the HSE-recognised certificate. Novice Forklift Training, Semi-Experienced Forklift Training, Refresher Forklift Training, Conversion Forklift Training are all available for this truck.
Other truck categories
Counterbalance Forklift, Reach Truck, Double Deep Reach Truck, 4-Way (Multi-Directional) Reach Truck, VNA Truck (Man-Up and Man-Down), Bendi and Flexi (Articulated) Forklift, Pivot Steer Truck, Powered Pallet Truck, Telehandler (Telescopic Handler), Order Picker (Low, Medium and High Level), Rough Terrain (Masted) Counterbalance, Side Loader.
Pedestrian Stacker Truck training questions
Does a stacker certificate cover powered pallet trucks too?
Not automatically; they are separate categories. We can cover both in the same visit if you run both, and the overlap keeps the time down.
Can you train one person?
Yes. On-site training is priced by the day rather than by the head, so a one-person stacker course is perfectly practical, and it is a common booking in London.
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