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Lower Operating Costs by Protecting Your Investment
Abuse of the forklift is preventable, therefore Hyster lift trucks has a total solution to help get rid of this type of abuse. The dealers have a range of cost effective options and simple solutions to consider in order to prevent forklift abuse from occurring.

Worn Tires, Abuse Items, Product or Service Solutions
Forklifts, unlike your personal vehicle, are not outfitted with suspension springs which give added cushioning. Hence, it is really important to replace worn tires or chunked tires that cause jarring impacts to the driver, the axle parts, and load and to the wheel.

To guarantee maximum lift truck performance, you will find lots of applications which depend on utilizing correct tires. You can just request an application survey from your local Cat lift truck dealer, in order to guarantee that your material handling equipment has the right tires. It is really vital not to forget that operating with worn lift truck tires can result in premature wear to the bottom of the tines. Forks which are worn could greatly jeopardize the lift truck's ability to lift. This situation creates an extremely unsafe and dangerous work surrounding.

When the heel on the forks is worn more than 10 percent, it is time to change the forks. In order to make sure that your machinery is safely functioning, routine fork inspections are needed to make sure that your equipment is operating with safe forks. These inspections are really vital to the safety of your drivers in addition to anybody else working near the machinery.

Sadly, a lot of forklift operators have taken up the bad habit of riding the inching pedal. This could cause expensive damage to the transmission of the vehicle. To be able to prevent major component failure from happening, only use the inching pedal when you are approaching a rack and wish to apply the brakes while the engine is revving. This enables the hydraulics to work at full speed. The brake pedal is utilized to regularly stop the forklift when the hydraulics is not being used and is located in the middle.

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

In addition to assigning machine to an operator, there are specific products available to help reduce product damage including vehicle speed limiter, impact monitor, and keyless access systems.

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