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Lower Operating Costs by Protecting Your Investment
Abuse of the lift truck is preventable, thus Hyster lift trucks has a complete solution to help get rid of this kind of abuse. The dealers have a variety of cost effective options and simple solutions to take into account in order to avoid lift truck abuse from happening.

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

To ensure maximum lift truck performance, there are actually many applications that rely upon utilizing right tires. You can simply request an application survey from your local Cat lift truck dealer, in order to guarantee that your material handling machine has the correct tires. It is really important not to forget that operating with worn lift truck tires can lead to premature wear to the bottom of the tines. Worn forks can really jeopardize the ability of the lift truck to lift. This situation creates a dangerous and awfully unsafe work surrounding.

It is time to change the blades, when the fork's heel is worn over 10 percent. Routine fork inspections are needed in order to make sure that your equipment is safely functioning and that your machine is working with safe forks. These inspections are very vital to the safety of your operators in addition to anybody else working near the machinery.

Riding the inching pedal is a bad habit which is sadly taken up by lots of forklift drivers. This inching pedal riding can cause expensive damage to the transmission of the vehicle. In order to prevent major component failure from occurring, only use the inching pedal when you wish to apply the brakes while the engine is revving and are approaching a rack. This enables the hydraulics to work at full speed. The brake pedal is used to frequently stop the truck when the hydraulics is not being utilized and is located in the middle.

Impact Damage
There are major components including tires, wheels, forks, body panels, attachments and brackets that suffer greatly anytime a lift truck encounters impact to its product or to its surrounding while traveling at high speeds.

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

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