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Lower Operating Expenses by Protecting Your Investment
Abuse of the forklift is preventable, hence Hyster forklifts has a complete solution to help eliminate this type of abuse. The dealers have a variety of cost effective options and simple solutions to consider in an effort to prevent lift truck abuse from happening.

Abuse Items, Product or Service Solutions, Worn Tires
Forklifts, unlike your personal vehicle, are not equipped with suspension springs that provide additional cushioning. Therefore, it is extremely vital to replace worn tires or chunked tires that cause jarring impacts to the axle parts, the operator, and to the wheel and load.

There are a lot of demanding applications that depend upon utilizing the correct tires to ensure maximum lift truck performance. In order to ensure that your material handling machine has the correct tires, simply request an application survey from your local Cat forklift dealer. It is really vital to remember that operating with worn forklift tires can lead to premature wear to the bottom of the tines. Forks which are worn can greatly jeopardize the ability of the lift truck to lift. This type of situation creates an awfully unsafe and dangerous work surrounding.

It is time to change the forks, when the fork's heel is worn over 10%. Routine fork inspections are needed in order to make certain that your machinery is safely functioning and that your machinery is operating with safe forks. These inspections are really vital to the safety of your operators in addition to anyone else working near the machinery.

Unfortunately, many lift truck drivers have taken up the bad habit of riding the inching pedal. This could lead to expensive damage to the transmission of the vehicle. In order to avoid major part 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 allows the hydraulics to function at full speed. The brake pedal is used to frequently stop the truck when the hydraulics is not being used and is located in the middle.

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 product or to its surrounding while traveling at high speeds.

There are actually certain products available to help reduce product damage along with assigning equipment to a driver. These products include vehicle speed limiter, impact monitor, and keyless access systems.

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