How Labor Shortages Are Changing the Way Warehouses Use Equipment

Recouping Performance in a Dynamic Material Handling Labor Market Being a proud North & South Carolina company, we have a vested interest in both states’ economic conditions, especially in the manufacturing and construction markets that we directly serve. Both states have come a long way in expanding development in these...

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Deciding Between Forklift Repairs and Replacement to Maximize Forklift Fleet Value

Deciding Between Forklift Repairs and Replacement to Maximize Forklift Fleet Value We heard a funny anecdote from a customer’s maintenance manager recently: “Whether your forklift is always in the shop or never in the shop, either way it probably means that you’re ignoring something important that’s going to cost a lot more...

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Common Misconceptions About Used Forklifts

Overcoming False Assumptions in Used Forklift Purchases For to many supply chain professionals, purchasing used warehouse equipment is akin to walking through a minefield, hidden dangers are all abound, seemingly unavoidable no matter where we step. Depending on who you talk to, second-hand equipment transactions can have a bad or...

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Navigating Forklift Regulations: Compliance and Standards

Ensuring Compliant Forklift Operations If you had to guess, how many different outside organizations would you say are involved in setting requirements for commercial forklift activities? Perhaps you’d guess only one, referring to OSHA, the federal safety agency that most readers will be familiar with. Perhaps you’d guess three,...

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Short-Term vs. Long-Term Forklift Rentals: Which Is Best for Your Business?

Making Sense of Forklift Rental Terms By their nature, most distribution companies fluctuate in how busy they are across a given year, scaling up or down as their customers’ demands dictate. Similar businesses such as manufacturing, construction, and event-based companies experience these same business cycles as orders and projects...

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Common Dock Door Issues and Troubleshooting Tips

Just as there are no tall trees without deep roots, there is no such thing as a highly productive warehouse with poorly functioning dock doors. At any given distribution, warehouse or manufacturing facility, dock doors serve many goals - safety, security, profitability, sustainability, and more - that can only be fully met when these doors...

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Top 10 Forklift Parts That Require Regular Replacement

Understanding Forklift Replacement Parts from Two Complementary Perspectives When it comes to forklift maintenance management, most companies lean towards one of two schools of thought: preventative maintenance or wear-based maintenance. With preventative maintenance, fleet managers set up their service regiments according to...

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Choosing the Right Tool for the (Material Handling) Job – Electric vs Diesel Forklifts

When we're asked to help clients select between electric and diesel style forklifts, we typically respond by saying the comparison is akin to "apples and oranges". While they are certainly similar, electric and diesel forklifts tend to solve independent challenges that make one the natural choice over the other depending on the tasks at hand....

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Safe Driving Techniques for Forklift Operators

How the Safest Warehouses Manage Forklift Operations In manufacturing, warehousing and distribution organizations that pursue the absolute highest levels of organizational safety, nothing is left to chance. From macro warehouse processes down to individual work steps, all aspects of these organizations are planned, managed, enforced,...

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Safety First: Best Practices for Operating Scissor Lifts

Raising Safety Awareness with Aerial Scissor Lifts While scissor lifts are known by many different names - aerial lifts, self-powered scaffolding, elevated work platforms, and so on -- they serve the one purpose of raising personnel up to perform work overhead. Plumbers, electricians, camera operators, welders, and many more professionals...

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