Hyster Order Picker Forklift Long Beach

Lower Operating Expenses by Protecting Your Investment

Forklift abuse is totally preventable. This is why your Hyster lift truck dealer has a complete solution for eliminating this type of abuse. The dealers have a range of simple solutions and cost effective options to take into account in order to avoid lift truck abuse from occurring.



Abuse Items, Service or Product Solutions, Worn Tires

Unlike your personal vehicle, lift trucks are not equipped with suspension springs which give additional cushioning. Thus, it is really important to replace worn tires or chunked tires which cause jarring impacts to the driver, the axle parts, and load and to the wheel.



There are a lot of demanding applications which rely upon utilizing the correct tires to ensure maximum lift truck performance. In order to ensure that your material handling machinery has the right tires, just request an application survey from your local Cat forklift dealer. It is very vital not to forget that operating with worn forklift tires can lead to premature wear to the bottom of the forks. Worn forks could really jeopardize the ability of the forklift to lift. This situation creates a dangerous and extremely unsafe work surrounding.



It is time to change the blades, when the fork's heel is worn more than 10 percent. Routine blade inspections are required in order to ensure that your equipment is safely functioning and that your machine is functioning with safe forks. These inspections are essential to the safety of your operators along with anyone else working in close proximity to the machine.



Sadly, lots of lift truck operators have taken up the bad habit of riding the inching pedal. This can cause costly damage to the transmission of the vehicle. In order to avoid major part failure from occurring, only utilize the inching pedal when you wish to apply the brakes while the engine is revving and are approaching a rack. This enables the hydraulics to work at full speed. The brake pedal is situated in the middle and is used to regularly stop the lift truck when the hydraulics is not being utilized.



Impact Damage

There are major components like wheels, tires, body panels, forks, backrests and attachments which suffer a lot anytime a forklift encounters impact to its surroundings or to product while traveling at high speeds.



There are actually specific products available to help reduce product damage in addition to assigning equipment to a driver. These products consist of vehicle speed limiter, impact monitor, and keyless access systems.

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