Vehicle & Plant Ramps
Choosing the right vehicle and plant ramp is essential to ensure it can safely support the capacity, provide a suitable gradient and remain securely in place during use. Whether you're loading a low-clearance car that requires a smooth incline or transporting tracked machinery and require a lightweight, portable solution, the right ramp can improve safety and efficiency. At The Ramp People, our extensive range of loading ramps is available in a wide selection of lengths, widths, capacities and connection options to allow you to find the right solution for your equipment.
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Heavy Duty Loading Ramps
When loading plant machinery, it is essential to choose ramps that can support the required weight, provide a safe loading gradient, and remain securely in place during use. Selecting the correct ramp helps ensure safe and efficient loading while reducing the risk of damage to equipment and vehicles.
Choosing The Right Loading Ramps
To identify the most suitable solution for your requirements you will need to check your load height, weight you are loading and the type of vehicle you are loading. The load height is the vertical height from the ground to where the ramp will rest, this determines to length needed to achieve a safe incline. Our plant machinery ramps offer a 30% gradient based on EU guidelines. Vehicles with low ground clearance, such as forklifts and scissor lifts, a smoother gradient is generally needed.
For help or information on choosing the right vehicle and plant ramp, view our buying guide here or contact our team.
Heavy Duty Loading Ramps - Designed for plant machinery
Whether you're transporting diggers, dumper trucks, ride-on mowers, excavators or tractors, our our range of heavy duty aluminium loading ramps have been built to safely load rubber wheeled and rubber tracked machinery into vans and trailers for transportation. Manufactured from high-strength aluminium, they are lightweight and portable. Available in lengths from 1.5m to 5.5m, and with capacities of up to 20,000kg across the pair, making them perfect for lightweight and heavy plant machinery on rubber wheels or rubber tracks.
Car Ramps - Built with low clearance in mind
Cars with low clearance, including sports cars, modified cars and supercars, require longer ramps to provide a smooth incline to prevent the vehicle from grounding out and being damaged during loading. Selecting the right ramp is essential to avoid costly damage. Car loading ramps are commonly used to assist users to overcome kerbs, load cars into garages and containers or load the vehicle for transportation. Our range of Italian manufactured TÜV certified low profile car ramps are available in lengths up to 4m. If you are seeking to load an item with low clearance, please contact our team so we can check suitability or provide a custom solution if needed.
Container Ramps - Load and unload shipping containers
Pallet trucks and forklifts regularly require access to load and unload shipping containers. Due to their low ground clearance, a smooth incline is required. Our range of aluminium and rubber container ramps are designed to improve access and make loading operations safer and more efficient in warehouses, yards and distribution centres. The ramps assist to reduce manual handling strain whilst ensuring items can be moved safely and efficiently. The range of container loading ramps include lightweight portable solutions, extra wide options to cover the full container width and mobile yard ramps.
Industrial Loading Ramps - Designed for machinery with steel tracks
Steel-tracked machinery such as excavators, bulldozers, crawler loaders, and drilling rigs requires specialist ramps designed to withstand high point loading and surface abrasion. At The Ramp People, we offer industrial ramps for steel tracked machinery with a rubber-coated or milled surfaces. The ramps offer capacities of up to 58,000kg across the pair making them perfect for demanding industrial use.
Connection Options - Secure, safe solutions
The aluminium loading ramps and aluminium car ramps are available with a choice of 4 Different connection options to ensure you can safely load machinery onto your van or trailer whether you have a flat bed vehicle or beaver tail trailer.
Custom Loading Ramps - Bespoke designs
At The Ramp People we wish to ensure we can assist you to safely load your machinery and can provide custom solutions. Our dedicated team our available to assist to provide recommendations, check suitability of solutions with a CAD simulation and provide custom solutions when needed, for example providing carry handles, amending length and width of the ramp and modifying the base of the ramp to achieve a smoother gradient For customisations, such as edges, different head connection or custom cut load height, we charge an additional fee of £110.00 / €120.00 plus VAT per pair. The charge for other customisations can vary.
Why Choose The Ramp People?
- Largest Selection of Loading Ramps - Leading UK supplier with extensive range of TÜV certified solutions
- Rated Excellent - Over 9,000 5* TrustPilot reviews
- Expert Advisors - Experienced UK based team available throughout the week to offer advice with quick response times
- Custom Solutions - Tailored solutions to meet your loading requirements
Browse by range to find a loading ramp to suit needs.
The Ramp People's vehicle ramp features Include:
- 4 Different Connection Options available
- Capacities up to 58,000kg available
- Easily load diggers, tractors, lawnmowers and other plant machinery
- Alloy ramp solutions available for loading items onto vans, trailers, beaver tail vehicles and more
- Lengths from 200mm to 5500mm available
- Widths up to 700mm available
- Bespoke vehicle ramps built to customers requirements/designs
- Surface profiles extruded from a high quality aluminium alloy which guarantees longevity even with constant use
- Ramps lie flat for easy storage when not being used
- Manufactured from lightweight aircraft grade aluminium (type 6005A)
- Robot welded for solid, strong and durable construction
- Lightweight for easy handling
- Complies with health & safety guidelines
- Fully TUV Certified
- All of our aluminium vehicle and plant ramps are made in Europe
- Angled foot, this allows for smooth access onto the ramp when using wheels or tracks
- Available with or without upstands or edges
- Ramps available to suit steel tracked machines, please view the Industrial Ramps range
- For customisation, such as edges, different head connection or custom cut load height, we charge an additional fee of £110.00 plus VAT per pair
- Nylon grab handles are available to increase the safe manual handling of the heavy duty ramps, please contact us for a custom quote
Usage guidelines and safety information for our full vehicle ramp range can be found here.