fixedly attached to the bottom of parallel tube sections 20 which extend vertically from toe plate 13 and define the vertical load supporting surface of hand truck 10 parallel tube sections 20 are formed at bend 30 and substantially joined at the top of upright frame 11 to form handle 21 which spans between parallel tube sections 20 and provides a means for the operator to manipulate hand truck 10 a pair of ground engaging wheels 12 are rotatably fitted to either end of axel 24 wheels 12 and axel 24 are mounted to the lower back of parallel tube sections 20 on triangular shaped brackets 26 which extend rearward and are fixedly attached to rear of parallel tube sections 20 wheels 12 are mounted at an attitude where wheels 12 point of contact 27 with the ground is on the same horizontal plane as the bottom surface of toe plate 13 when upright frame 11 is setting vertically and unsupported referring now to fig1 and fig2 a plurality of slightly crescent shaped metal cross ties 22 evenly spaced one above the other between toe plate 13 and handle 21 span between and are fixedly attached to the back of parallel tube sections 20 and vertical slide track 14.