A tiller for a pedestrian-controlled fork-lift truck, comprising a hollow tiller rod which has its lower end hinged to a support for a steerable wheel and has its other end connected to a loop-shaped handle which, at the rear end, has a gripping portion extending crosswise to the tiller rod, a retaining extension extending into the interior of the handle as an elongation of the tiller rod, a handle means pivotally supported by the retaining extension which is coupled to a lifting means via a pusher or puller element within the tiller rod, wherein the handle means having an intermediate neutral pivoting position and two opposed pivoting positions in which it actuates the lifting means for a lifting or lowering operation, characterized in that the handle means is a loop-shaped elongated gripping element including two approximately parallel extending long element portions which extend crosswise to the tiller axis, and two curved, short element portions (interconnecting the long element portions which are located adjacent to the lateral gripping portions of the tiller handle with the element portions being approximately in a common plane and the longer element portion facing the pedestrian-controlled fork-lift truck being pivotally supported by the retaining extension.