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Optimizing Battery Charging Areas for Safety and Efficiency

Battery charging areas or rooms have certain requirements and the location can help or hinder traffic flow and productivity.

How much does a forklift cost?

It’s time to add a forklift to your fleet. Maybe it’s a replacement for an existing truck that’s outlived its usefulness. Or maybe your operation has evolved and requires more capacity or different capabilities.

How to Choose the Right Fork for Your Equipment

The forks on your forklift may seem like a minor detail, but they play a significant role in the overall performance of your equipment.

Don't Overlook Forklift Chain Inspections

Forklift chains, powered by hydraulic pressure, handle massive weight every day. These chains are critical to your forklift’s performance and safety, so regular inspection is essential to prevent excessive wear or failure.

Pick Your Power Source: Electric, LP or Diesel

Electric, LP or diesel, oh my! Which type of forklift should you buy?

How Much are your Forklifts Costing You?

Your forklifts have costs associated with operation and it's important that you know how much each one costs you per hour of operation.

The Costly Effect of Excessive Tire Wear on Lift Trucks

Just as athletes rely on the right gear for peak performance, or an artist the right brushes, equipping your lift truck with proper tires is crucial for the longevity and efficiency of your equipment.

A new seat costs less than an EMPTY seat!

Forklift seats take a beating—and so do your operators! Let’s talk about when, why & how to replace forklift seats.

Creating a Culture of Safety in Material Handling

The National Safety Council has designated June as National Safety Month—the annual observance to help keep each other safe from the workplace to anyplace. June 11, 2024 was National Forklift Safety Day.

Every Worker Deserves to Make it Home Safe – Every Day

The National Safety Council has designated June as National Safety Month--the annual observance to help keep each other safe from the workplace to anyplace. And, June 11, 2024 is National Forklift Safety Day.

Renting forklifts is the perfect solution!

When outfitting your operation with expensive machinery such as forklifts, there are times and circumstances when renting instead of purchasing just makes good business sense.

Maintenance guidelines to extend the life of forklift batteries

Here are some maintenance guidelines to keep your electric forklift's lead acid batteries performing and lasting as they should.

How does equipment downtime affect your business?

There is no upside to downtime. Downtime can have varied negative impacts depending on the industry, especially in areas heavily reliant on material handling equipment like forklifts. See if these line up in your experience:

Boost Forklift Productivity by Optimizing Operator Comfort

In today’s demanding warehouses, getting more output from your existing forklift fleet has high value. Surprisingly, something as simple as upgrading the operator seat or control design provides immense impact on safety, downtime, and productivity.

Optimize Your Material Handling Equipment Performance

Running a smooth warehouse operation relies on having reliable, high-performing material handling equipment. But keeping your fleet of forklifts running at peak efficiency can be challenging.

A guide to safe winter forklift operation

Get ready to take on Old Man Winter and send him packing! This comprehensive article will help you prep your people and equipment to conquer icy temps, slippery surfaces, brutal winds, and limited visibility.

How to Maximize the Life of your Forklift Tires

Let’s talk about how to stretch your budget and get the most life out of your forklift tires as possible.

The truth about forklift tires

Good tires can make or break your forklift. Literally.

How to safely recharge or refuel a forklift

Forklifts are important machines that help move things in warehouses and other places. They can run on either batteries or fuels like LPG or diesel. In this blog post, we will learn how to safely recharge or refuel a forklift.

Safely Stack and Lift Forklift Loads: A Guide to Your Personal Safety

If you work in a warehouse or distribution facility, you are familiar with pallet racks used for organizing and storing products and the forklifts used for stacking pallets on racks or removing them for delivery to other areas.

Are lithium-ion (Li-ion) powered forklifts right for your operation?

Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are creating a fundamental change in the material handling industry. The longer runtimes, longer lifespan, fast charge capability, and reduced cost of ownership make adoption of lithium-ion power a clear decision.

Forklifts in the construction industry

When you think about material handling equipment in the construction industry, forklifts may not be the first thing that springs to mind. Front end loaders, back hoes, and conveyors may be what you think of right off the bat.

Material handling equipment in agriculture

Most folks don’t associate forklifts with farming. Tractors and combines, sure. Forklifts and other material handling equipment, not so much.

But as the need for increased speed and efficiency in agriculture has grown, modern material handling solutions have replaced tractors on farms of all types. Supplies and seed are regularly delivered on pallets, so forklifts are quickly becoming a staple of the modern American farm. Farmers looking to expand or who want to store more seed, produce, or supplies need the extra oomph that a lift truck brings. 

Forklift batteries don’t die alone! They take vital components with them.

Does that headline scare you? Well, it should if you rely on electric forklifts. Yikes!

Why and when to replace forklift tires

Forklift tires are essential to your equipment’s safe operation. Worn tires can cause accidents and harm forklift operators. Let’s review the why and when of forklift tire replacement.

The different types of forklift tires and how/where to use them

Your forklift’s tires impact the efficiency of the forklift’s operation. A review of the types and applications of forklift tires is provided in this article.

Can I put pneumatic tires on a cushion tire forklift?

A forklift’s tires are its foundation. The truck’s weight, the weight of the load, plus the weight of the operator all rest on the tires. Beyond carrying weight, tires provide a solid, stable base for the forklift and are the vehicle’s only shock absorption and suspension system.

National Forklift Safety Month

Let’s all celebrate National Forklift Safety Day by staying safe every day!

Do you need your forklift fleet to be more flexible?

When is a short-term rental a good business decision?

Forklifts Down on the Farm

Farming is hard work - unpredictable weather, volatile market, physical demands, and the unpredictability of livestock and crops. Most farmers embrace technology that makes their job easier and depend on the lifting power of forklift trucks.

Selecting the right forklift for your lumberyard

This blog post will focus on the lumberyard environment and examine factors to consider when purchasing forklifts.

Is a forklift lease right for you?

When your operation needs to add a forklift, one of the earliest decisions you’ll face is “should I buy, rent or lease?” This post will focus on the lease versus buy decision and explain the advantages of the primary types of leases. 

What does forklift downtime cost?

Downtime is a dirty word. We hate it. YOU, hate it. It is more than an “inconvenience”—it is expensive. Let’s discuss how you can avoid downtime as much as possible and keep your business—and your forklifts—moving forward.

When to replace, retain, relocate, or retire a forklift

Do you have good visibility into your forklift fleet's status? Have you asked yourself whether a forklift is worth the money you're spending to run it? Have you evaluated your forklifts productivity and decided you might have too many or not exactly the right machine for the job or space they are operating in? Read this article for clarification and call us for some free tools to help in your data analyzing and decision-making process.

Choose the right forklift tires for performance, safety, and efficiency

Forklift tires do more than roll your lift truck around your facility. They also impact operator health, the efficiency of the forklift, and accident prevention.  This article will review the types of forklift tires, the environments each is suited for, and how the right tire selection, use, and replacement can impact your operation.

Walkie Pallet Stackers: Why Ride When You Can Walk!

Moving and stacking pallets doesn’t always require a ride-on forklift truck.

What you need to know about forklift battery technologies

In this article we compare forklift battery types by looking at power and energy, charging, maintenance, safety and more.

Carrying the Load: Basic Concepts

How much lift capacity do I need in a forklift? Join us for a discussion where we consider a load's shape, size, and weight distribution and how they influence the forklift's ability to handle the load.