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With the load going up to 50.5 kilograms--or more than 111 pounds--the buckets were dispensed with and a hand truck with a pneumatic platform loaded with steel plates was rolled onto the floor.
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Jeffrey Kluger, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
The back doors roll up, and a crew of delivery workers begins sorting and stacking hundreds of boxes and pouches onto rolling dollies and hand trucks.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 12 May 2023
John Irving, a lawyer representing one of the two employees who moved the boxes, said the worker did not know what was in them and was only trying to help Trump valet Walt Nauta, who was using a dolly or hand truck to move a number of boxes.
—BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
Note that the top platform fits to the curving back of the hand truck by means of two quick cuts at 45-degrees that remove the back corners of the platform.
—Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2023
At a Whole Foods in Jericho, Mr. Stepanian, a scruffy 36-year-old with piercing blue eyes, wheeled a hand truck through the labyrinthine corridors of the store’s backstage like a junkman of old, stopping at Produce and Dairy and Prepared Foods and calling out greetings to familiar faces.
—Stephanie Keith, New York Times, 21 May 2021
This allows a snug fit to the hand truck’s curving back brace.
—Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2023
The hand truck cart has room for a circular saw, an impact driver, fasteners, accessories, a nail apron and hammer.
—Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2023
There are different types of dollies, including one designed for moving appliances; a hand truck made for moving boxes; and a flat floor dolly made for moving furniture.
—Laura Daily, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2022
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Jeffrey Kluger, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
The back doors roll up, and a crew of delivery workers begins sorting and stacking hundreds of boxes and pouches onto rolling dollies and hand trucks.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 12 May 2023
John Irving, a lawyer representing one of the two employees who moved the boxes, said the worker did not know what was in them and was only trying to help Trump valet Walt Nauta, who was using a dolly or hand truck to move a number of boxes.
—BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
Note that the top platform fits to the curving back of the hand truck by means of two quick cuts at 45-degrees that remove the back corners of the platform.
—Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2023
At a Whole Foods in Jericho, Mr. Stepanian, a scruffy 36-year-old with piercing blue eyes, wheeled a hand truck through the labyrinthine corridors of the store’s backstage like a junkman of old, stopping at Produce and Dairy and Prepared Foods and calling out greetings to familiar faces.
—Stephanie Keith, New York Times, 21 May 2021
This allows a snug fit to the hand truck’s curving back brace.
—Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2023
The hand truck cart has room for a circular saw, an impact driver, fasteners, accessories, a nail apron and hammer.
—Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2023
There are different types of dollies, including one designed for moving appliances; a hand truck made for moving boxes; and a flat floor dolly made for moving furniture.
—Laura Daily, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2022
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First Known Use
1920, in the meaning defined above
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