Safety and regulations
Industrial trucks - Electric pallet trucks and stackers

Readers are referred to the article Industrial trucks. Regulations and standardization.

Under current regulations, a driver's license is not required to operate pedestrian pallet trucks or electric stackers.

Trucks must be equipped with an ignition key and audible horn as standard.

Pedestrian trucks must be designed in such a way that they cannot reach speeds in excess of 6 km/h unladen and level.

The electric pedestrian pallet truck or stacker is braked by a mechanical or electromagnetic brake, operated by raising the tiller fully or lowering it as far as it will go.

The end of the tiller arm must be fitted with a safety switch which, if the operator gets caught in an obstacle, reverses the direction of travel or stops the machine.

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