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Lower Operating Expenses by Protecting Your Investment
Abuse of the forklift is preventable, therefore Hyster lift trucks has a complete solution to help eliminate this type of abuse. The dealers have a variety of simple solutions and cost efficient options to consider in order to prevent lift truck abuse from occurring.

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

There are a lot of demanding applications that rely on using the proper tires to ensure maximum lift truck performance. In order to guarantee that your material handling machine has the proper tires, just request an application survey from your local Cat forklift dealer. It is important to remember that operating with worn lift truck tires could result in premature wear to the bottom of the blades. Worn forks could really jeopardize the ability of the forklift to lift. This situation creates a dangerous and awfully unsafe work surrounding.

It is time to change the forks, when the fork's heel is worn over 10 percent. Routine fork inspections are required in order to make sure that your machinery is safely functioning and that your machine is operating with safe forks. These inspections are really vital to the safety of your operators along with anybody else working in close proximity to the machine.

Sadly, a lot of forklift drivers have taken up the bad habit of riding the inching pedal. This could lead to costly damage to the transmission of the vehicle. To be able to prevent major part failure from happening, just 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 work at full speed. The brake pedal is utilized to frequently stop the lift truck when the hydraulics is not being used and is situated in the middle.

Impact Damage
There are major components like wheels, tires, forks, body panels, backrests and attachments that suffer a lot anytime a forklift encounters impact to its product or to its surrounding while traveling at high speeds.

There are specific products available to help decrease product damage along with assigning machine to an operator. These products consist of impact monitor, keyless access systems and vehicle speed limiter.

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