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Lower Operating Costs by Protecting Your Investment
Abuse of the lift truck is preventable, hence Hyster lift trucks has a total solution to help eliminate this kind of abuse. The dealers have a range of cost efficient options and simple solutions to take into account with a purpose to prevent forklift abuse from occurring.

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

There are many demanding applications which depend upon using the right tires to guarantee maximum lift truck performance. In order to guarantee that your material handling machinery has the proper tires, simply request an application survey from your local Cat lift truck dealer. It is really vital to remember that operating with worn lift truck tires may lead to premature wear to the bottom of the forks. Forks which are worn could greatly jeopardize the lift truck's ability to lift. This situation creates a dangerous and awfully unsafe 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 equipment is safely working, routine fork inspections are needed to make sure that your machine is operating with safe forks. These inspections are very essential to the safety of your operators in addition to anybody else working near the machine.

Riding the inching pedal is a bad habit which is unfortunately taken up by numerous forklift operators. This inching pedal riding could result in costly damage to the transmission of the vehicle. In order 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 function at full speed. The brake pedal is used to regularly stop the forklift when the hydraulics is not being utilized and is situated in the middle.

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

You will find certain products available to help reduce product damage in addition to assigning machinery to a driver. These products include keyless access systems, vehicle speed limiter and impact monitor.

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