With the dawning of a new year, and plenty of people vowing to make 2018 count, there’s no better time to re-dedicate yourself to ensuring your forklift fleet is in tip-top shape. Hopefully, your operators start every shift with a complete inspection already (since it’s required by OSHA), but let’s take this one a little deeper to give...

The leaves are turning, there’s that familiar nip in the air, and we’re knee deep in football season.  All that means it’s sweater-weather, and it’s time to think about taking a good look at your forklift before it gets too cold. Once Summer’s scorch subsides, start looking at your forklift and you can begin with our engine and...

Nothing lasts forever, and there are definite signs to look for to determine if your forklift is nearing the end of the road. After some years, all forklifts will start to have trouble. At a certain point, continuing to drive the same lift into the ground will stop making financial sense. It’s actually easy to tell when an aging forklift is...

We get asked every now and again “Why Doosan?” For this list, let’s focus on the Doosan electric series of lifts, and the Top Ten reasons you should consider one. The new Doosan 7 series. It’s impressive, and the fingertip controls offer fast, instinctive control of the truck. The Guardian Safety System monitors truck functions...

  Now that the days are getting a little shorter and the temperatures will soon be dropping along with the leaves, it’s time to prepare for the end of the Summer and your seasonal forklift maintenance. As always, every shift should begin and end with the routine internal and external maintenance inspection as required by OSHA. In...

  Maintenance is maintenance, right? Not so fast. There are two disciplines of maintenance- “preventative” and “routine.” Think of brushing your teeth vs. going to the dentist. Brushing (routine) takes place (ideally) every day and keeps your pearly whites happy and healthy.  The dentist (preventative) takes place...

We’re elbows deep in Summer weather and even if you did everything we suggested in the Spring to prep for Summer, you still need to follow up because hot weather is very, very tough on mechanical engines and forklifts are no different. Start with the battery.  Sure, you check it at the start of every shift but take a minute or two and...

Your employees have an hourly pay rate, and you can make an argument that your forklift does too.  So, how much are you paying YOUR forklift? We’ll explain. Forklifts, as we’ve talked about before, need maintenance. Daily maintenance, per shift inspections, periodic inspections and parts replacements don’t just happen, they take...

Like any piece of equipment you rely on, your aerial lifts require regular inspections, and regularly.             Aerial lifts also have their own set of unique safety requirements, and let’s start this review here.             OSHA defines an aerial lift, simply, as a vehicle used to lift someone in the air. We’re...

Picture a forklift. What part do you think of first? Probably the cab. It’s the biggest part of the forklift. Then, probably the forks.  They appear to do the bulk of the work, but the fact is the mast may be the most important part of the forklift. The mast is the part of the forklift that moves the load up in the air using a system of...