Description

The RT 4020 stand-up rider pallet truck with lift capacities up to two tonnes combines an extremely agile and robust truck with innovative safety features. Optimum operator protection is assured by robust steel covers, Crown’s Entry Bar Safety Switch, suspended floorboard, and carefully shaped wrap-around lean pad.
Incorporating the latest technology – such as Crown’s proven AC motors and electric steering – the RT 4020 represents the newest product in this category for many years. Available in right- or left-hand configuration, the truck is designed for the toughest dock and transport applications in modern logistics. Powerful AC performance, compact dimensions and intuitive and highly responsive controls make the RT the right fit for busy and tight areas.
Travel speeds up to 12.5 km/h and a chassis only 780 mm wide allow easy navigation in congested areas and make for fast loading/unloading of lorries.
Also available in the Crown RT 4000 Series is a sit-down model (RT 4040) with height-adjustable operator platform.

Innovations

1. Operator Comfort and Safety:
The truck features Crown’s patented and proven Entry Bar Safety Switch, protecting operators from serious foot injuries by deactivating travel when the operator places a foot outside the truck perimeter. Suspended floorboard and spring-loaded castor wheels reduce shocks from dock boards and rough floors, offering best-in-class ride comfort and minimising back strain and operator fatigue. The wrap-around lean pad enables the driver to adopt the best position for visibility and ease of control. Traction and lift/lower controls are oriented to the intended direction and a large desktop/storage area with bungee cord for A4 size papers, labels, markers and other work essentials further improve operator convenience. Robust steel covers with rounded corners protect the operator, especially in congested areas.
2. Agility:
The proven Crown-built AC motors run longer, cooler and more efficiently. Combined with smooth and precise electronic steering, available both in right- and left-hand configuration, the RT 4020 delivers impressive agility.
3. Reliability:
The RT 4020 features 8-mm reinforced steel skirts and 6-mm thick steel wrap-around sidewalls with no exposed plastic parts in impact areas. Reinforced, one-piece high tensile steel forks with adjustable pull-rod linkage and standard pallet entry and exit rollers let the load arms traverse pallet bottom boards whether the pallet is empty or full.

Market relevance

Crown’s research showed that this product category faces increasingly tough and busy applications with intense dock works, high travel speeds, heavy traffic and severe time pressure. Shorter deadlines and growing product diversity bring these challenges more and more to the fore in modern logistics. Driving over ramps and dock boards hundreds of times per day can result in knee and back pain and overall operator fatigue, so safety is becoming an increasingly important requirement. The main task for Crown was to design a truck that is robust, fast and comfortable while keeping operators safe and helping them perform tasks quickly, safely and skilfully. In this respect, the solid and reliable RT 4000 Series builds confidence, and every feature makes it clear that the operator is central to the design. Every touchpoint was critically researched and tested to ensure that each operator has the best tool for the job.
Another key challenge in developing the RT 4000 Series was to create three different operator compartments for this low-volume product family: a sit-down version and two stand-up models with right- and left-hand steering. The solution is an elegant, user-centered design delivering high performance without compromising ergonomics.

Customer benefits

Operators benefit from increased productivity through faster dock and transport work with powerful acceleration and high travel speeds. With its narrow chassis with short headlength, precise controls and electric steering, the RT 4020 is agile and highly manoeuvrable.
Low entry step, ergonomically-shaped soft foam wrap-around lean pad and intuitive controls enhance operator comfort while the suspended platform and patented Entry Bar Safety Switch increase safety. The RT 4020 is the first product in its class to offer this innovative and unique safety feature. Protecting the operator against physical stress and strain also improves uptime and productivity, while at the same time saving costs.

With its robust construction and highly durable and efficient Crown-built motors, the RT 4020 offers the durability and reliability needed for the toughest logistics applications. To meet individual demands, Crown also offers an optional Lithium-Ion-Ready configuration.

Test customers confirmed that operators like the agility of the RT 4020 while at the same time feeling much more secure when working in the hardest conditions.