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The total US. consumption of new hand trucks in 2003 was
2,879,565 units!
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Finished hand trucks sold in US. in 2004 was valued over
$80 million dollars!
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Modular hand trucks, including parts brings
this total to over $100 million dollars!
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Hand trucks fall from vehicles causing accidents, injury and liability!
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Rubber straps often slip or break; bungee cords are not DOT approved.
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It is dangerous and a DOT safety
violation to transport a loose hand truck in the cab.
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Drivers have been injured from impact and
falls when the hand truck is not secured!
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Hundreds of hand trucks are lost, stolen and damaged every day; worldwide!
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Flimsy or loose restraints can cause expensive truck body damage.
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Most retaining
methods require both hands and can cause hand injuries.
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Twist bars and hasp systems require rubber straps to stop vibration and wear.
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Chains, bar systems and hasp devices require padlocks to stop theft.
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Padlocks require additional time to open and close and often freeze.
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Hand trucks in cargo bay can cause early wear to doors and rollers.
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Drivers will back-track miles off route to retrieve forgotten hand trucks.
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The average delivery
driver will forget their hand truck 6 - 8 times per year.
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Many drivers become distracted and sometimes run over their hand truck.
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Hand trucks can take up valuable cargo space and block storage shelves.
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A hand truck carried inside
is a payload loss of 240-300 cubic feet per month.
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Parcel drivers constantly shuffle hand trucks to reach
parcel shelves.
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UPS purchases an average of 13,000
new hand trucks every year.
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Unsecured hand trucks damage fragile parcels and beverage products.
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Mud and snow covered hand truck tires can contaminate food, medical
supplies and paper
products, causing thousands in insurance claims.
n The Frozen
Food Distributors waste valuable temperature, fuel and time
when
having to reload the hand truck back into the cooler system
before departure.
n Frozen Food
Service companies storing hand trucks in the freezer area
causes
the aluminum load plate to become brittle, fatigued and
breakable! Hand trucks
become broken or cracked when lowering from the freezer to
the ground.
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Medical waste removal companies have
contaminated physician waiting
room floors by
transferring hazardous bacteria from the hand truck tires!
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Armored guards experience security problems unloading
hand trucks.
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Armored Car companies unnecessarily open their vehicle vault
door thousands
of times
per day just to access their hand truck
before making pick-ups.
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Snow melts from hand truck tires causing slippery wet floor surfaces
and rust.
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The HTS Ultra-Rack / Hand Truck Sentry
System can solve all of the
above and
is guaranteed to substantially enhance the efficiency,
safety and every day it
increases the profitability of your delivery operations!
Liberty Mutual
Insurance Company
surveyed many
companies for their views on workplace safety.
Ninety five
percent of businesses report that workplace safety has a very positive impact on a
company's financial performance. Sixty one percent of these
companies indicated their companies received $3 or more for
each $1 spent improving workplace safety.
View the Liberty
Mutual Safety Index report by clicking Adobe PDF link below.
Liberty Mutual Safety Index PDF
Overexerting the body by
manually lifting, lowering and throwing hand trucks from the
vehicle can
often lead to MSD (Musculoskeletal
Disorders). When ergonomic methods are applied in the
workplace
the risk of an
overexertion injury is reduced, which can reduce workman’s
compensation, insurance
claims and
increase company profits.
 
Many delivery companies believe rubber straps, bungee
cords or loose chains will do the job!
We discovered years ago that this was not true and using
these types of methods was expensive
and very dangerous. Our HTS method is easier, faster,
safer and it pays for itself in 10-12 months,
guaranteed!
The HTS will also save you fuel, reduce freight claims and
increase worker productivity!
We titled this beverage truck photo "Double Trouble",
with every braking, acceleration and turning
action of this beer truck, both hand trucks constantly
sway back and forward, ready to fall off.
A hand truck secured to the front or rear of a delivery
vehicle with a rubber strap or bungee cord is
an accident just waiting to happen! The losses can be
disastrous at highway speeds! A hand truck weighing 15- 45
lbs. sailing through the air at highway speeds becomes a
deadly projectile when it
impacts a car windshield or pedestrian! The HTS
Ultra-Rack - Hand Truck Sentry System transports your hand truck
safely and securely.
Before
and after HTS System Ultra-Rack installation, hand truck is now
transported safe
and secure.
Before Ultra-Rack using swing hasp and padlock. After HTS
Ultra-Rack installation and
with no padlocks.
We interviewed hundreds of drivers, supervisors and company
owners about their concerns of safety,
delivery
time
and the limitations of hand
truck retaining methods. The beverage distributors and
parcel companies, although different industries, share many
of the same problems as drivers use hand trucks on route.
Drivers may use a hand
truck more
than 30-40 stops per day. The
hand truck sustains being stowed and unloaded or attached
and removed
from the
delivery vehicle an estimated
15,000-26,000 times per year! A driver spending just one
minute longer per
stop can
lose more than 2.5 hours per week! Time lost
per driver may exceed $ 2,500 dollars annually!
Today's conventional hand truck
carriers have many limitations and provide zero safety and
productivity benefits.
OEM, Retro-fit and After-market
carrier frames can't offer what the HTS Ultra-Rack was
designed to deliver!
Delivery companies direct their attention
and efforts to customer service and worker productivity. We
learned that
most companies considered liability and delivery time as their number one logistics priority. The
food service
industry had additional concerns which included lost cargo space, product damage and driver injury. Many businesses
have reluctantly accepted these problems, while others continue to look for solutions or attempt to
create their own methods. Companies that overlook route productivity and safety issues are unable to contemplate the financial losses
and the potential risks! Delivery time, insurance
claims, fuel loss and property damage is
MONEY!
The
patented HTS hand truck locking carrier is the safest,
fastest and easiest locking
rack ever designed!
We
have the ultimate locking transport carrier for hand
trucks, allowing your drivers to safely access and
securely load a hand truck aboard your delivery
vehicles in only 3-4
seconds. Most conventional hand truck securing
and locking
methods require 20-60 seconds or longer when
detaching/removing and stowing/securing a hand truck
aboard delivery vehicles. That’s more than a minute of
route time or productivity loss
per delivery stop!
  
  
A
delivery route driver may
perform more than 40 stops per day, which
can result in losing more than 40 minutes
of labor,
more than 3 hours of route time per week! When a
driver must back-track (6-8 times a year) to an early
delivery stop and retrieve the
forgotten hand truck, worker (driver)
productivity levels drop and your company
profits
diminish!
With today's fuel prices, labor expenses and the
scheduled appointment delivery this driver error
usually exceeds $30 dollars per incident!
The Hand Truck Sentry System eliminates all of these company
expense problems forever!
  
If
your company uses cords or straps to secure your
hand trucks to the exterior of your fleet vehicles
you’re gambling
with liability
issues every day!
Check out our
Press Release Page
and see what can happen when a single hand
truck falls from a delivery truck!
     
Rubber Straps can break
without warning and their metal hook ends
easily bend and slip. Bungee Cords
weaken
and lose
tension strength over time, thus weakening their
holding power; because of this, they are not
DOT
approved. Both restraints are unreliable, a
safety hazard and can be extremely dangerous
when transporting a
hand truck on the exterior of a
vehicle! The HTS hand truck
lock eliminates cords and straps forever!
  
The
HTS Ultra-Rack - Hand Truck Sentry
System can replace all of the conventional
retaining methods above.
The HTS is also the world's safest and most efficient
method for securing hand
trucks on delivery trucks!!
Guaranteed!!
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