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Lower Operating Costs by Protecting Your Investment
Abuse of the forklift is preventable, hence Hyster lift trucks has a total solution to help eliminate this kind of abuse. The dealers have a range of cost effective alternatives and simple solutions to consider in order to avoid forklift abuse from occurring.

Worn Tires, Abuse Items, Service or Product Solutions
Not like your personal vehicle, lift trucks are not equipped with suspension springs that provide extra cushioning. Hence, it is very vital to replace chunked tires or worn tires which cause jarring impacts to the operator, the axle parts, and load and to the wheel.

To ensure maximum lift truck performance, there are actually lots of applications which depend on utilizing correct tires. You can simply request an application survey from your local Cat forklift dealer, in order to guarantee that your material handling machinery has the correct tires. It is very vital to remember that operating with worn lift truck tires could lead to premature wear to the bottom of the blades. Forks which are worn can really jeopardize the lift truck's ability to lift. This situation creates an extremely unsafe and dangerous work environment.

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 certain that your equipment is functioning with safe forks. These inspections are really important to the safety of your drivers in addition to anyone else working near the machinery.

Riding the inching pedal is a bad habit that is unfortunately taken up by lots of lift truck drivers. This inching pedal riding could cause costly damage to the vehicle's transmission. In order to avoid major component 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 allows the hydraulics to work at full speed. The brake pedal is situated in the middle and is used to frequently stop the truck when the hydraulics is not being used.

Impact Damage
Anytime a lift truck encounters impact to its goods and products or to its surrounding that are traveling at high speeds, you will find major components like tires, wheels, forks, body panels, attachments and brackets that may suffer greatly.

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

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