Why are the back wheels of warehouse/delivery cages in a fixed position?

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So I work in a shop and we get our deliveries on those massive warehouse cages. It’s always annoying trying to move these cages around because the back wheels are fixed and don’t turn, only the front wheels turn.

Why are they designed like this?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

I’ll let you in on a secret. Push from the side with the swivel wheels, not the fixed ones. It allows for good steering (the fixed end essentially acting as a zero-turn to navigate corners) and encourages pushing rather than pulling which is safer.

Source: work with carts with 2-swivel and 4-swivel version, the 4-swivel sucks major ass and you can never get them to go where you want without messing around with them way too much.

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